AVRAMIDIS KONSTANTINOS

KONSTANTINOS AVRAMIDIS

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Position

LECTURER

Entity

Department of Architecture

Building/ Office

Main Campus Buildings, A120

Address

75, Kallipoleos Ave.

Konstantinos Avramidis is a Lecturer in Architecture and Landscapes at the University of Cyprus. He holds a DipArch from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, an MSc in Architecture and Spatial Design from the National Technical University of Athens with distinction, and a PhD in Architecture by Design from the University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded the Edinburgh College of Art scholarship.

He has taught extensively at various institutions in Greece and the UK, most recently at Drury University and the University of Portsmouth, and was granted Fellow status by the British Higher Education Academy in recognition of his scholarly and reflective approach to teaching and supporting learning. Student projects that he has supervised have received prizes, including the esteemed Cyprus Architects Association Student Award. His designs have been awarded – winning, among others, two 1st prizes in the Greek national architectural competitions ‘Kozani x4’ and ‘Thesprotian Chamber’ – and exhibited internationally, including the 8th and 10th Biennale of Young Greek Architects. His research has been presented at conferences in prestigious institutions, such as TU Delft and ICA, and published in books and journals, including the distinguished City and Design Journal.

Konstantinos has been invited to lecture on his research and/or participate in design reviews at the Architectural Association, University College London, University of the West of England, Cardiff University, University of Liverpool and Newcastle University in the UK, Athens Metropolitan College, University of West Attica, University of Thessaly and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, University of Trento in Italy, TU Berlin in Germany, Stockholm University in Sweden, McGill University and Carleton University in Canada, and University of St Thomas in the USA. He cofounded the architectural design research journal Drawing On and coedited Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing the City (Routledge, 2017).

Research by design
Architectural design
Architectural communication
Art and/in urban space
Visual culture
Cultural landscapes
Greek city

Avramidis, K. (2025 forthcoming). Mapping Topo-graphēs: Performing Kessariani’s Surfaces in Three Acts
In T. Tunali (Ed.), Routledge Companion to Art and the City. London: Routledge.

Avramidis, K., Issaias, P., & Balaoura, O. (Eds.). (2024 forthcoming). Kessariani 22: Histories and Projects. Athens: Themelio.

Avramidis, K. (2024 forthcoming). Drawing Crisis, Crisis Drawing: On Graffiti and Museumification in Athens. In J. Tulke (Ed.), Aesthetics of Crisis. Grand Forks, ND: University of North Dakota Press.

Avramidis, K. (2024 forthcoming). Changing [Sup]positions: Perspective and [Hyper]reality in the Construction of WD's Trompe-l’œil. In K. Kourelis (Ed.), Keeping it Wild: The Art of WD (pp. 73-89). Grand Forks, ND: University of North Dakota Press.

Avramidis, K. (2024). Drawing Transgression, Transgressing Drawing: Tracing Graffiti Traces. In T.B. Kenniff & C. Lévesque (Eds.), -In Drawing. Inquiry, Time, Dialogue and Materiality (pp. 133-141). Montreal: University of Quebec at Montreal Press.

Avramidis, K. (2023). Place Writing, Site Drawing: Researching Graffiti as a Critical Spatial Practice. In H. Kamalipour, P. Aelbrecht, & N. Peimani (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods (pp. 304-314). London: Routledge.

Avramidis, K. (2022). Buildings as Unsolicited Drawing Surfaces: An Atlas of Athenian Inscriptions. In F. Goffi (Ed.), Routledge Companion to the Lives of Architectural Drawings and Models: From Translating to Archiving, Collecting and Exhibiting (pp. 47-61). London: Routledge.

Tsilimpounidi, M., Carastathis, A., Avramidis, K., Awad, S., Gupta, S., Hansen, S., Panlee, P., Tulke, J., & Zaporozhets, O. (2022). Graffiti and Street Art: Queer Feminist Approaches. Nuart Journal, 3(2): 126-133.

Avramidis, K. (2021). Crises and/of Representations: The Sites of Drawings and/of Writings in Athens. City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action, 25(3-4), 526-542.

Avramidis, K. (2021). Review of Drawing Parallels: Knowledge Production in Axonometric, Isometric and Oblique Drawings, by Ray Lucas. Architectural Research Quarterly, 25(2), 191-193.

Avramidis, K., & Tsilimpounidi, M. (2021). A Periegesis through the Greek Crisis in Five Graffiti Acts: Cartographic and Photographic Dialogues. In R. Campos, A. Pavoni & Y. Zaimakis (Eds.), Political Graffiti in Critical Times: The Aesthetics of Street Politics (pp. 29-51). Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Avramidis, K. (2020). An Architectural Palimpsest: [Re]writing Crisis-ridden Athens. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 7(2-3), 243-262.

Avramidis, K. (2020). Review of Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice, by Marian Macken. Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice, 5(2), 383-386.

Tsilimpounidi, M., & Avramidis, K. (2020). Graffiti and Street Art. In M. Baker, B. Blaagaard, H. Jones & L. Pérez-González (Eds.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media (pp. 185-189). London: Routledge.

Avramidis, K. (2019). Tagging a WWII Detention Centre in Athens: Drawing Biographies οn/οf the Walls. Lo Squaderno, 54, 31-35.

Avramidis, K. (2019). Book Review: Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 58(1), 138-140.

Wiszniewski, D., Avramidis, K., Banou, S., French, C., Lesniak, P., & Mitsoula, M. (Eds.). (2019). Drawing On (3): Architecture Design Research.

Avramidis, K., & Moustaka, G. S. (2018). J. Corner & A. MacLean, 1990-1996: ‘Taking Measures Across the American Landscape’. In T. Manis & G. Panetsos (Eds.), Precedents, Vol 2 [Afetiries, Tom 2] (pp. 200-205). Athens: Domes. [in Greek].

Drakopoulou, K., Avramidis, K. (2018). Graffiti: An Art of Identity and its Critical Discourse (1980-1985). In K. Boudouris (Ed.), XXIII World Congress of Philosophy: Vol. 1, Aesthetics and Philosophies of Art (pp. 65-71). Charlottesville, VA: Philosophy Documentation Centre.

Avramidis, K., & Tsilimpounidi, M. (Eds.). (2017). Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing the City. London: Routledge.

Wiszniewski, D., Avramidis, K., Banou, S., French, C., Lesniak, P., & Mitsoula, M. (Eds.). (2017). Drawing On (2): Surface and Installation.

Avramidis, K. (2015). Reading an Instance of Contemporary Urban Iconoclash: A Design Report from Athens. The Design Journal, 18(4), 513-534.

Avramidis, K., & Drakopoulou, K. (2015). Moving from Urban to Virtual Spaces and Back: Learning in/from Signature Graffiti Subculture. In P. Jandrić & D. Boras (Eds.), Critical Learning in Digital Networks (pp. 133-160). New York, NY: Springer.

Wiszniewski, D., Avramidis, K., French, C., Lesniak, P., & Mitsoula, M. (Eds.). (2015). Drawing On (1): Presents.

Avramidis, K. (2014). Mapping the Geographical and Spatial Characteristics of Politicized Urban Art in the Athens of Crisis. In M. Tsilimpounidi & A. Walsh (Eds.), Remapping ‘Crisis’: A Guide to Athens (pp. 183-203). London: Zero Books.

Avramidis, K. (2014). Public [Ypo]graphy: Notes on Materiality and Placement. In M. Karra (Ed.), No Respect (pp. 21-34, 85-96). Athens: Onassis Cultural Centre.

Avramidis, K. (2014). The Agency of Space on the Scene of Encounter: Thoughts on the Situational Nature of Perception. In K. Drakopoulou & A. Fakis (Eds.), Meta (pp. 47-54). Athens: Futura.

Avramidis, K., & Drakopoulou, K. (2012). Graffiti Crews’ Potential Pedagogical Role. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 10(1), 327-340.

Avramidis, K. (2012). ‘Live your Greece in Myths’: Reading the Crisis on Athens’ Walls. In A. M. Brighenti (Ed.), Regards on Crisis in Europe. Trento: Professional Dreamers.

Avramidis, K., & Drakopoulou, K. (2011). Graffiti as a Critical Encounter of the notions ‘Purity’ and ‘Order’: Towards a Contingent City. In S. Marini (Ed.), My Ideal City: Scenarios for the European City of the 3rd Millennium (pp. 64-70). Venice: IUAV Publications.