CURRICULUM VITAE

Aspaso (Aspassia) Kouzoupi

Dipl. Architect Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

MAS.ETH in Landscape Architecture

PHD Candidate, University of Thessaloniki

P.O.box 77030 Paleo Faliro 175 10 Athens, Greece

+30-6972874777,

a.space.ia@gmail.com

1. DISTINCTIONS FOR PROJECTS

►2011: Greece

DOMES 2011 Awards

1^st HONORABLE MENTION at the category

“Best Executed Work 2008-2010”

Domes International Architectural Review Awards

By the International Jury:

Prof. Steven Holl ,

Prof. Finn Geipel,

Prof. Panayotis Tournikiotis.

For « KATRAKI SQUARE : The central Square of Glyfada ».

Project designed and realised (2006-2008) by:

Sculpted Architectural Landscapes® :(N.Golanda + A.Kouzoupi),

in collaboration with the architects of the Technical Service of the Glyfada Municipality.

http://www.domes.firma.cc/gr/issue/issue_project.php?objectid=1856

►2007 Canton Neuchâtel, Switzerland

7^th Prize

« Concours International d’Idées pour l’Aménagement du Site Naturel et Bâti “Le Crêt-du-Locle”, Lieu du Développement Coordonné des Villes de La Chaux-de –Fonds et du Locle. »

International Competition of Ideas (in the field of Landscape Urbanism) for the coordinated development of the natural and manmade landscape of the Watch Valley, in the Swiss Jura, canton Neuchâtel. Her project “GEO-HORLOGE + CHRONOPOLIS” was based on her personal research in ETH Zurich. Consulted Urban Planner: S. Mentos

http://run.ne.ch/general.asp/2-0-9500-8103-907-1-1/

►2004 Barcelona, Catalonia

Finalist: 2004 European Prize for Urban Public Space

Attiki Odos: Landscapes between Highway and Nature/ Ymittos Ring, micro-landscapes along the cut of Mt Ymittos

Sculpted Architectural Landscapes® :(N.Golanda + A.Kouzoupi)

The Prize is annually organized by: CCCB-Barcelona, AzW-Wien, CAP-Paris, NAI-Rotterdam, AF-London, MFA-Helsinki. This project is exhibited at the European Archive of Urban Public Space.

http://urban.cccb.org/europeanArchive/htmlDocs/europeanArchive_1024.asp?gIdioma=A&gDoc=D046

►2000 Barcelona, Catalonia

1^st Landscape Biennale Barcelona

Finalist: 1^st Rosa Barba Award on Landscape

“Dionyssos Quarries: Open-Air Museum of Old Quarrying Arts”

Area: 13,5HA / ownership: Dionyssomarble S.A.

Her first large scale landscape project realized collaboration with landscape sculptor Nella Golanda.

http://www.coac.net/landscape/II_Biennal/premis_rosa_barba_99_w.html

2. STUDIES

2010-current

PhD Candidate,

Department of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Supervisor:

Associate Professor Vana Tentokali.

Co-supervisors:

Professor Zisis Kotionis: Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly

Associate Professor Constanze Magdalene Guthenke: Department of Classics and Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.

2005-2006 [Academic Year]

Swiss Federal Commission for Foreign Students Scholarship, Master of Advanced Studies ETH in Landscape Architecture.

Her Tesis project was chosen as the cover of the edition: “Paysages Urbains”: Thesis Projects of the MAS LA 05/06, Chair of Professor Christophe Girot, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Network City and Landscape, ETH Zurich).

2002-current

Student at the Athens School of fine arts

2000

Dipl. Architect -eng at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

3. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2010-2011, 2009-2010, 2008-2009 and 2007-2008 [Academic Years]

Tutor-Lecturer, at the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly, teaching 2 courses she designs and develops: Urban-scale landscape design and Territorial-scale landscape mapping.

She is the supervisor, or the co-supervisor, of 6 Diploma Theses and 6 Undergraduate Special Research Projects, between 2008 and 2011.

2010

She structures and teaches an intensive short-term elective course, designed as a workshop, at the Department of Architecture of the University of Patras, entitled: “Relations of Scale into Landscape”. A great number of students (around 50) chose and took part to this elective course.

2008-2009 [Spring Semester]

Co-teaches, (with Mr. Karolos Hanikian, architect NTUA, MLA University of Pennsylvania) at the Department of Architecture of the University of Patras the lesson “landscape architecture”.

2003-2004 και 2004-2005 [Academic Year]

Teaching assistant at the framework of the course “design through a de-constructing and de-stabilizing game” taught by Associate Professor Vana Tentokali at the Department of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

1995-1996 [Academic Year]

Student/teaching assistant at the courses “Freehand sketch I, II” taught by Apostolos Vettas (Professor at the School of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki) at the Department of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

4. LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS, CONGRESSES

Thessaly, March 2010

Invited lecture at the framework of the course “Landscape Theories and Dwelling Practices” taught by Professor Zissis Kotionis and Assistant Professor Phoebe Gianissi , ath the Post-Graduate Studies program of the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly.

Thessaloniki, March 2010

Invited Lecture-Presentation, entitled: “topio-genesis at Katraki Square”, at the State Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, during the daily symposium “The contribution of public sculpture and architecture to urban development. Greek and International experience”

Patras, November 2009

Invited Presentation and round-table discussion on Katraki Square, during the 3-day symposium festivities linked to the opening of the 6^th Pan-Hellenic Architectural Exhibition WALLS.

Mytilene, June 2008,

Kouzoupi, A. «Geo-Watch: The Vision of a Geo-Logic Landscape Museum, Conceived and Designed for the Swiss Watch Valley»

Presentation of paper at the International Congress: ”Studying, Modeling and Sense-Making of Planet Earth”, organized by the Department of Geography of the university of the Aegean.

Drama, May 2008,

Kouzoupi, A. «Geo-Horloge: Uncovering a Geological Time-scale at the Watch Valley. Geological digs and a Museum-Landscape of Paleo-Ecosystems of the Jurassic Era”

Invited Lecture at the workshop “Quarry Reconvention” organized by the Technical Institution of Kavala, Department of Landscape Architecture (Assistant Professor Julia Georgi).

Thessaloniki, October 2007,

Kouzoupi, A. “counting time as a spatial palimpsest in the watch valley”

Invited lecture at the Workshop “paths into the myth of Ehedoros” at the framework of the course “design through a de-constructing and de-stabilizing game” taught by Associate Professor Vana Tentokali at the Department of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Thessaloniki, May 2005,

Golanda N., Kouzoupi A., “Attiki Odos. Relating Natural and Anthropogenic elements along the cut of Ymittos Mount by the contemporary motorway axis”

Presented paper at the International Congress “landscape Architecture: Education, Research, Realized Projects” organised by the trans-disciplinary Post-graduate Studies program of Landscape Architecture: Department of Architecture and Department of Agriculture, Aristotle university of Thessaloniki.

Athens, June 2005,

Golanda N., Kouzoupi A., “Sculpted architectural Landscapes”

Lecture at the International Congress “Science and Art” organized by the Union of Greek Physicists at the Eugenides Foundation.

Barcelona, June-July 2004,

Golanda N., Kouzoupi A., “Attiki Odos and the Hymettus mountain range: creating a relation between the manmade space of the new highway line of Athens and the mountain of Hymettus”

Paper presentation at the International Congress “Arquitectura 3000, l’arquitectura de la in-diferencia”, Organized by: Department of Architecture of the UPC

Thessaloniki, February 2004,

Kouzoupi, A. “Space in the Plot of the Odyssey”

Invited Lecture at the framework of the course “design through a de-constructing and de-stabilizing game” taught by Associate Professor Vana Tentokali at the Department of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

5. REALIZED PROJECTS

Since 1995 she collaborates with Nella Golanda, landscape sculptor, with whom they become associates in 2000 co-founding the team “SCULPTED ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPES ®”, focusing on urban and peri-urban landscapes.

5.1. Project scale: Urban Landscape Design

2007-2008 “topio-genesis at Katraki Square”

Urban Landscape Design at the central square of Glyfada municipality, 0.6HA, based on the idea of the intrusion of natural dynamics into the urban territory. Collaboration: SCULPTED ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPES and Technical department of the Glyfada municipality.

2000-2004 landscapes along Ymittos Ring

Re-use of road construction materials for the fabrication of landscape entities between road-scape and nature, along Ymittos Mountain cut. (Katehaki Interchange islands, Anastaseos junction islands, rock facades or concrete rock-trapping elements along the mountain cut, concrete color, along 4km by both directions of the high-speed motorway)

Project: SCULPTED ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPES in collaboration with the constructing teams of the Attiki Odos Joint-venture.

1995-1997 “Old Dionyssos Quarries, Open-Air Museum of Old Quarrying Arts”

13,5 HA of abandoned quarries, where traditional quarrying techniques had been used. Use of dry-stone techniques, re-structuring scattered marble fragments, creating landscape-art entities, the fist of the projects of SCULPTED ARCHITECTURAL LANDSACPES, in collaboration with 5 old quarry-men. Owners/sponsors: DionyssoMarble SA

5.2. Art Projects in Public Space

2007

installation and exhibition of A. Kouzoupi’s SIGNAUX HYBRIDES in the city of Saint Tropez. (μελέτη+κατασκευή Α. Κουζούπη, σύμβουλος Ν. Γκόλαντα, sponsor ΣΗΜΑ αε). Signaux Hybrides are a system of hybrid signalization/ public art, a concept for signalizing the cultural mutation of the city during the event ε Dialogues Méditerranèens /Parcours Culturel /Été Culturel 2007 (curator Suzanne Van Hagen, 15 July- 15 October 2007). One of those signaux-hybrides entities, the citadelle stairway, is chosen to remain as a part of the city.

2004-2005

design and construction of urban elements for the Central square of Karditsa. Fountain (project N. Golanda, consulter A. Kouzoupi) and large bench-complexes (Golanda N., Kouzoupi A.).

2003-2004

first prize (SCULPTED ATCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPES) at the artistic competition organized by the metro SA, for an elongated wall sculpture at the station of N. Herakleion .Realization of the project entitled “Kites and Constellations’ (dimensions 30mΧ3mΧ0.5m laser-perforated inox plates, neon light, fluorescent signal colors).

1993

“Tzitzimitzihotziria”: Sculpted musical game, an interactive cubic structure of 4mX4mX4m. Project team: N. Golanda landscape sculptor, S. Vassileiadis musical composer, T. Pringopoulos and A. Kouzoupi - student of architecture. Initially exhibited in Nella Golanda’s sculpted-theatre AIXONI, now is in the Katsigras Art Museum in Larissa.

5.3. Architectural Scale

1997-2000

House and Cycladic garden in the island of Kea, design based on the way the site’s geology submerges into the landscape and the study on the wind’s movements at the area.

Project by SCULPTED ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPES

6.EXHIBITIONS+CATALOGUES

2010, 6^th Biennale of Young Greek Architects

Benaki museum, Athens

Presented project: “GEO_HORLOGE+CHRONOPOLIS”

2010, 12^th International Architecture exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia

Greek pavilion: «THE ARK, old seeds for new cultures»,

Commissioners: Z. Kotionis, P. Giannisi

Presented: text by A. Kouzoupi in the catalogue of the greek pavilion pp362-371, and scattered photos

2009, 6^th Pan-Hellenic Exhibition of Architecture in Patras

Presented project: “Katraki Square”

2007, monograph exhibition

Paris/Cite Internationale Universitaire, Fondation Hellenique

« PAYSAGES HYBRIDES »: the projects of «SCULPTED ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPES: Nella Golanda + Aspassia Kouzoupi» 1995-2007

Curator : Christophe Catsaros ,Ecole des Arts Superieures Cambrai.

2006, 5^th Pan-Hellenic Exhibition of Architecture in Patras

Presented projects: “Attiki odos, landscapes between motorway and nature” and “house in Cycladic kea”

2006, 10^th International Architecture exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia

Greek Pavilion: “The Dispersed Urbanity of the Aegean Archipelago”

Commissioners : Konstantopoulos H., Papadopoulos L.

curators: Kotzia K., Konstantopoulos H., Papadopoulos L. , Filoxenidou K.

Presented project: “house in Cycladic Kea”

2003, 3^rd European Landscape Biennal of Barcelona

Presented project: “Attiki odos, landscapes between motorway and nature”

2003, 4^th Pan-Hellenic Exhibition of Architecture in Patras

Presented project: “Olympic Park of the Arts” SCULPTED ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPES and ARSIS architectural team (K. Moraitis K. Helidoni).

1999, 1^st European Landscape Biennal of Barcelona

Presented project: “Old Dionyssos Quarries”

7. PUBLICATIONS

Project publications and references to her projects in international/Greek architectural and art reviews/editions, books, and exhibition catalogues

•Switzerland

•Germany

•Spain

•Holland

•England

•Mexico

•Canada

•France

•Greece:

•Kouzoupi Aspaso (2006): “Geo Watch-Geo Logic” in: “Paysages Urbains”: Thesis Projects of the MAS LA 05/06, Chair of Prof. Christophe Girot, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Network City and Landscape. Zurich: ETH

•Golanda N., Kouzoupi A. (2008)”Old Marble Quarries of Dionyssos” (pp.613) in: 1000X Landscape Architecture (2008). Berlin/Stuttgart: Braun

•Golanda N., Kouzoupi A. (2008) “Attiki Odos Between Landscape and Nature” (pp.616) in: 1000X Landscape Architecture (2008). Berlin/Stuttgart: Braun

•Kouzoupi Aspassia (2007)”perpetual entelechy” (pp.9-15) in: “Die Planung-A Terv, #25 June July 2011” Berlin/Budapest: Die Plannung/ a terv

•Hardcastle L., Kouzoupi A. (2006)”Gedächtnis der Zukunft” in: terra nova / Landschaft in Bewegung- Energielandschaften zeigen. Aachen,Köln: regionale 1010, Internationales Institut fuer Gartenkunst und Landschaftskultur

•Golanda N., Kouzoupi A. (2001): “the Old Quarries of Dionyssos, Attica, Greece” (pp 60-65) in: Topos European landscape Magazine, #31, 9/2001

•Golanda N., Kouzoupi A. (2003) “Attiki odos, landscapes between motorway and nature/ paisatges entre la carretera I la natura” in: Only with nature / Nomes amb natura, Catalog of the 3^rd European Landscape Biennal. Barcelona: COAC

•Golanda N., Kouzoupis A. (2000) “Pedreres Dionyssos / Dionyssos Quarries” (pp.231) in : Refer paisatges/ Remaking landscapes. Catalog of the 1^st European Landscape Biennal. Barcelona: COAC

•Golanda N. (1998) “The Old Dionyssos Quarries” (pp. 60-65) in: (editor) Francisco Asensio Cerver International Landscape Architecture, Barcelona: Arco

•Aesopos Yannis “Post Olympic Architecture, An Architectural Tour of Athens” (pp.66-69) in: A10 new European architecture” , #15, 05-06/2007

•Holden Robert (2003) New Landscape Design, “Dionyssos Quarries” (pp.92-97). London: Laurence King

•Holden Robert (2003) Nueva Arquitectura del Paisaje, “Pedreres Dionyssos” (pp.92-97). Mexico City: G.Gilli

•Mustille Sarah (2006) “Amenagement d’anciennes carriers”, Universite de Montreal, Faculte de l’amenagement, Ecole d’architecture de paysage. Montreal : chaire unesco

• Golanda N., Kouzoupi A. (2007) « Paysage entre l’autoroute et la chaine de montagne d’Ymittos, Attiki odos, Athenes, Grece. Marquage réflectif le long d’ une route » (pp.43) in : Van Hagen Susanne (ed) « Dialogues Méditerranéens a Saint-Tropez, parcours artistique de l’été culturel 2007». Paris : Beaux Arts

•Catsaros Christophe (2005) « Paysages Hybrides: Du Mont Penteli A La Voie Attique, N.Golanda + A. Kouzoupi », (pp108-111), in : d’ Architectures, #149, 10/2005

•Plisson Philip (2004), «Αθήνα, μεταξύ Ουρανού και Θάλασσας» (pp. --).Paris: La Lucarne

•Aspassia Kouzoupi (2003) «Sans Titre» (pp 185, 189, +annexe images couleur) in : anomalie Digital Arts INTERFACES #3, 05/2003. Paris: anomos

•Holl, Steven (2010): “Juror’s Views, Best Executed Work Prize: Katraki Square”. In: DOMES International Architectural Review, pp 33, #95, December 2010.

•Φατούρος Δημήτρης (2008) «’Ιχνος Χρόνου, Αφηγήσεις για την Νεώτερη Ελληνική Αρχιτεκτονική» (pp.231,232 + παράρτημα εικόνων αλφαβητικά).

Αθήνα :Καστανιώτη

•Ηλιάκης Μ., Κουζούπη Α. (2008) «Γλυπτά Αρχιτεκτονικά Τοπία με Οικολογική Συνείδηση» Building Green, #08, 07-08-09/2008.

•Catsaros C., Κουζούπη Α. (2008) «Yβριδικά Τοπία, Cite Universitaire, Fondation Hellenique, Παρίσι» (pp. 23) in: Αρχιτεκτονικά Θέματα / Architecture in Greece, 42/2008

•Κουζούπη Ασπασία (2008)”Υβριδικά Σήματα στο St Tropez 2007” (pp. 190-191) in:Θέματα Χώρου + Τεχνών/ Art + Design in Greece #39, 2008

•Αττάλη Εριέτα (2007 [2004]) «Γλυπτά Αρχιτεκτονικά Τοπία, Αττική Οδός, Δυτικη Περιφερειακη Λεωφορος Υμηττου»( pp.124-125) in: ΔΟΜΕΣ διεθνής επιθεώρηση αρχιτεκτονικής, (μονογραφία/έκθεση) “Εριέτα Αττάλη 1997-2007 τοπία αρχιτεκτονικής στην Ελλάδα”. Δομές #63 11/2007 - Αθήνα: Νέο Κτήριο Μουσείου Μπενάκη.

•Γκόλαντα Ν., Κουζούπη Α. (2007) «Αττική Οδός , Δυτική Περιφερειακή Υμηττού 2000-2004. Ανιχνεύοντας και Αναδημιουργώντας Σχέσεις ανάμεσα στο Φυσικό και το Ανθρωπογενές Τοπίο». in: Τσέτσης Στάυρος (επιμέλεια) Ένα Μέλλον για την Ελληνική Πόλη. Προς μία αντροπή της Παθογένειας του Αστικού Φαινομένου στον Ελλαδικό Χώρο. Αθήνα: Οκτάγωνο.

•Γκόλαντα Ν., Κουζούπη Α. (2006) «Αττική Οδός / Δυτική Περιφερειακή Υμηττού . Ανιχνεύοντας και Αναδημιουργώντας Σχέσεις ανάμεσα στο Φυσικό και το Ανθρωπογενές Τοπίο», in: 5^η Πανελλήνια Έκθεση Αρχιτεκτονικού Έργου. Πάτρα/Αθήνα: Πάτρα 2006, Παπασωτηρίου.

•Κοτζιά Κ., Κωσταντόπουλος Η., Παπαδόπουλος Λ., Φιλοξενίδου Κ. (επιμέλεια) (2006) “Το Αιγαίο μια Διάσπαρτη Πόλη” ,(pp.184,185), 10^η Διεθνής Έκθεση Αρχιτεκτονικής, Μπιεννάλε Βενετίας, Ελληνική Συμμετοχή .Ελλάδα: Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού

•Κουζούπη Ασπασία (2005) «Σπίτι στην Κέα, μελέτη Α.Κουζούπη και Ν.Γκόλαντα» in:Θέματα Χώρου + Τεχνών/ Art + Design in Greece,#36/2005

•Γκόλαντα Ν., Κουζούπη Α. (2005) «Γλυπτά Αρχιτεκτονικά Τοπία» (pp. 1,2,128-133,193)in: Αρχιτεκτονικά Θέματα / Architecture in Greece, (αφιέρωμα) “Αττικό Τοπίο” #39/ 2005

•Κουζούπη Ασπασία (2004) : «Γλυπτά Αρχιτεκτονικά Τοπία, Αττική Οδός, Δυτική Περιφερειακή Υμηττού, Εμπλοκή Φυσικού και Ανθρωπογενούς Τοπίου κατά μήκος του Σύγχρονου Οδικού Άξονα» (pp.11-13) in: «Η Αρχιτεκτονική ως Τέχνη», περιοδική έκδοση του Συλλόγου Αρχιτεκτόνων Θεσσαλονίκης, Τεύχος 10, Ιούλιος-Αύγουστος -Σεπτέμβριος 2004.

•ΑΡΣΙΣ + ΓΛΥΠΤΑ ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΑ ΤΟΠΙΑ (2003) «Ολυμπιακό Τοπίο Τεχνών στο Φλοίσβο» in: 4^η Πανελλήνια Έκθεση Αρχιτεκτονικού Έργου, Παράλιες Ζώνες και Αστικά Συμβάντα. Πάτρα: Σύλλογος Αρχιτεκτόνων Νομού Αχαΐας

•Kouzoupi Aspassia (2003) «Pandora’s box» (pp279), in: Theodorou Maria (editor) Ephemeral Structures in the city of Athens, International architectural competition. Athens: Cultural Olympiad

•Δανιηλίδης Nίκος (2003), «Κόμβος Κατεχάκη, Αττική Οδός» in: (pp.258) Ελλάς Άνωθεν Αθήνα: Μίλητος / Αθήνα 2004

•Δ. Φιλιππίδης (2001) « Μοντέρνα Αρχιτεκτονική στην Ελλάδα» ,(pp. 138). Αθήνα: μέλισσα

•Α. Γιακουμακάτος (2001), «Περιβαλλοντική Αναστήλωση» (pp.308-313) in: Η Αρχιτεκτονική και η Κριτική, Αθήνα: Νεφέλη

•Γκόλαντα Ν., Κουζούπη Α. (1998) «Αποκατάσταση Τοπίου σε Παλιό Λατομείο» (pp.178-179) in: Θέματα Χώρου + Τεχνών/ Art + Design in Greece, #29,1998