Stavros Stavrides
Bio
"Stavros Stavrides, architect and activist, is Professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, where he teaches graduate courses on housing design (social housing included) and urban design, as well as a postgraduate course on the meaning of metropolitan experience.
He is currently the head of NTUA Lab for the Architectural Design and Communication. Until recently he was director of the NTUA postgraduate Program Research in Architecture: Architectural Design – Space – Culture.
He has done extensive research fieldwork in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Mexico focused on housing-as-commons and on urban struggles for self-management.
Research topics include urban commons, urban struggles, the social experience of metropolitan space, housing, spatial theory, architectural design and planning."