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A PARTNERSHIP TO PROMOTE THE GREEK ARCHITECTURAL VISION
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20.5 - 9.6 2013
AT MEGARON ATHENS
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Kourkoula Katerina
An Aeolian Sense
2011
Postgraduate
Cooper Union, New York, USA
Professor(s): Diana Agrest
Winds; an invisible force field that is in constant flux, becomes the 'driving' force of Odysseus trip. Winds mold the temporal landscape that Odysseus navigates through. The hero alternates between fluid and solid states, between sea and land within an archipelagos. He is always transitioning from the influence and mercy of the winds to other natural forces. The edge condition is described as a boundary, of a varying typologies, and the point were wind can have from temporal to permeant effect.
The edge condition, between land and sea is treated as the site. Cuts are proposed within the solid land in order to capture wind and accelerate erosion and boundaries are strategically placed in the sea to accumulate sand and matter. Where there was land water will slowly penetrate and where there was water islands will be generated. The edge will loose its definition and become a landscape of interchangeable solids and fluids. There will be an inversion created by the immaterial and intangible wind forces and an Odyssean microcosm will be generated.
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Katerina Kourkoula received her Bachelors of Science from the Bartlett School of Architecture (U.C.L.) in 2003, her Bachelors of Architecture from The Cooper Union in 2008 and her Masters in Architecture from The Cooper Union in 2011.
Upon graduating from The Cooper Union, Kourkoula was awarded the The Irma Giustino Weiss Prize for demonstrating exceptional potential for future achievement. She was also awarded the AIA School Medal and The Certificate of Merit for the excellence in the study of Architecture. In 2008 she was the recipient of AIA Heritage Ball Scholarship. In addition, in 2010 she received the Onassis Foundation Scholarship for her graduate studies abroad. Her work has been publicized in the New York Times, Eoculus, Contract Magazine and NY1, and was part of the Ecoredux exhibition that has taken place in New York, Athens and Barcelona.
Kourkoula has worked for Henley Halebrown Rorrison Architects in London and Lot-Ek in NY and has collaborated with Divercity architects in London and Kokkinou-Kourkoulas architects in Greece. Since 2008 she has also worked on her own residential projects in Greece and her own renovation projects in NY. She has been teaching design studio at the Cooper Union since 2011.
Her postgraduate thesis under the title "An Aeolian Sense" was conducted during fellowship from the Public Benefit Foundation "Alexander S. Onassis".
Upon graduating from The Cooper Union, Kourkoula was awarded the The Irma Giustino Weiss Prize for demonstrating exceptional potential for future achievement. She was also awarded the AIA School Medal and The Certificate of Merit for the excellence in the study of Architecture. In 2008 she was the recipient of AIA Heritage Ball Scholarship. In addition, in 2010 she received the Onassis Foundation Scholarship for her graduate studies abroad. Her work has been publicized in the New York Times, Eoculus, Contract Magazine and NY1, and was part of the Ecoredux exhibition that has taken place in New York, Athens and Barcelona.
Kourkoula has worked for Henley Halebrown Rorrison Architects in London and Lot-Ek in NY and has collaborated with Divercity architects in London and Kokkinou-Kourkoulas architects in Greece. Since 2008 she has also worked on her own residential projects in Greece and her own renovation projects in NY. She has been teaching design studio at the Cooper Union since 2011.
Her postgraduate thesis under the title "An Aeolian Sense" was conducted during fellowship from the Public Benefit Foundation "Alexander S. Onassis".
