Practice
Works &
Projects
Exhibitions, mediation, research, and urban collaborations — a record of practice across institutions and cities.
Organised around four areas of activity: curatorial exhibitions, mediation and public engagement, academic and editorial research, and urban projects and institutional collaborations. Running through all of them: the Bauhaus as a living legacy, and the belief that cities change when we change the way we see them.
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Exhibitions& Curation
Permanent and temporary exhibitions bringing architectural history and urban memory to new audiences — developed in collaboration with leading cultural institutions across Europe.
Permanent exhibition
From Building to Community:
Ioannis Despotopoulos and the Bauhaus
A permanent exhibition tracing the life and legacy of Ioannis Despotopoulos — the only Greek architect who came in direct contact with the work at the Bauhaus — and the movement's lasting influence on Greek modernism. The exhibition was part of the events that took place in 2019 throughout Europe to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus School.
Temporary exhibition · 2014
Urban Details.
Ongoing reflections on Patission street
How do small gestures shape the urban landscape?
How does the image of the city change when we change the way we look at it?
Focusing on a historical but forgotten artery of Athens, the exhibition explores the street's spatial and social composition, bringing attention to small urban details.
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Mediation& Public Engagement
Turning architectural knowledge into shared public experience — through guided tours, public lectures, and engagement programmes for specialist and general audiences alike.
Ongoing collaboration
Guided Tours of the
Bauhaus Buildings, Dessau
As an external collaborator of the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, I design and lead guided tours of the original Bauhaus buildings — bringing their history, architecture, and significance to life for specialist and general audiences alike. The tours explore not just the buildings themselves but the ideas that shaped them and continue to resonate today.
Architectural guided tours
Walking Athens —
Historic Triangle & Kypseli
Specialist architectural and historical guided tours through two of Athens' most layered neighbourhoods — the Historic Triangle at the heart of the contemporary city center, and Kypseli, the vibrant and historical district, which played an important role in the formation of the contemporary Athenian urban social life. Designed for individuals, groups, and international organisations.
Public lectures
Lectures on Architecture,
Cities & Memory
Public lectures on architectural history, urban heritage, Ioannis Despotopoulos, Greek Modernism and the Bauhaus legacy — developed for cultural institutions, universities, festivals, and general audiences. Each lecture is tailored to its context, with the shared aim of making architectural thinking accessible and socially relevant.
Interested in a guided tour, lecture, or public programme?
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Research& Writing
Academic and editorial work rooted in doctoral research on the Bauhaus — from the PhD thesis to book publications, conference contributions, and editorial projects.
Doctoral Thesis
Bauhaus International — The Intellectual Formation of the Greek Architect Ioannis Despotopoulos. A Journey from Bauhaus and the Weimar Republic to Athens, Stockholm and post-War West Berlin
Focusing on the life and work of the Greek architect Ioannis Despotopoulos, this doctoral research examines how the Bauhaus was received, interpreted, and appropriated across different national and cultural contexts — with particular attention to its Greek reception and the figure of Ioannis Despotopoulos.
2024
Book · Editor
Ioannis Despotopoulos. Three Texts on Bauhaus
Editorial compilation of three foundational texts by Ioannis Despotopoulos, bringing together primary sources from his Bauhaus' experience in a single scholarly volume. Accompagnied with reach visual material and an introduction by Dr. Loukas Bartatilas. Published in English, German and Greek.
Benaki Museum
Publishers
public presentation
Akademie der Künste, Berlin — Days of Exile
As part of Berlin's event "Days of Exile", Dr. Loukas Bartatilas presented part of his research on the famous architects Martin Wagner and Bruno Taut, who shaped Berlin's modern identity during the Weimar Republic.
Künste, Berlin
2023
Conference
Cultural buildings on the urban space
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Athens
2023
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Urban Projects& Civic Collaborations
Institutional collaborations, urban culture programmes, and civic engagements — bringing architectural history, civic engagement and the life of cities into the public sphere.
Ongoing · Community space
iac Berlin —
Community Space Coordinator
Coordinator of the Community Space at the International Alumni Center Berlin — working with the conviction that spaces shape communities, and communities shape change. The space hosts events, workshops, and encounters for the Bosch Alumni Network and partner organisations.
Programme · Participation
Robert Bosch Stiftung
Actors of Urban Change
Participation in the Actors of Urban Change programme — an international initiative by the Robert Bosch Stiftung and MitOst e.V. bringing together practitioners from across Europe to rethink the relationship between cities, communities, and public space.
Institutional collaboration
City of Athens
Collaboration with the Municipality of Athens and the Department of Civil Society on urban heritage and public space — connecting architectural history to the everyday life of the city and its citizens through the reactivation of the Municipality Market of Kypseli.
Public programme
NEON Cultural Foundation
Urban research and mapping on architecture, urban culture and civic engagement of Kypseli neighborhood as part of NEON's 2015 Community Project initiative.
Let's work
together!
If you are an institution, cultural organisation, university, or media organisation looking for a curator, researcher, lecturer, or writer — I would be glad to hear from you!
post@loukasbartatilas.com