Work
Selected Projects &
Collaborations
Curating, mediation, research, and civic collaborations — a record of practice across institutions and cities.
Organised around four areas of activity: curatorial exhibitions, public mediation and engagement, scholarly research and publications, and civic engagements and institutional collaborations.
Running through them all: architectural heritage, public memory, and civic life — and the conviction that cities change when we change the way we see them.
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Curating& Exhibitions
Permanent and temporary exhibitions translating architectural history and urban memory into public experience — produced in collaboration with cultural institutions in Greece and beyond.
Permanent exhibition · athens conservatoire
From Building to Community:
Ioannis Despotopoulos and the Bauhaus
A long-term curatorial project housed within the Athens Conservatoire — a building designed by Ioannis Despotopoulos himself, where the exhibition unfolds as an act of architectural mediation between the building and its public.
First commissioned for the Bauhaus centenary in 2019 with a two-month programme of various mediation activities, it is on permanent display since 2022.
The exhibition traces the life and legacy of Despotopoulos — the only Greek architect to have come into direct contact with the Bauhaus — and the building's influence on Greek modernism.
Welcoming students, professionals, and international audiences, the exhibition stands as a point of reference for the Bauhaus connection to Greece.
Temporary exhibition · 2014
Urban Details.
Ongoing reflections on Patission street
How do small human gestures shape the urban landscape?
How does the image of the city change when we change the way we look at it?
Urban Details takes Patission Street as its central axis, presenting a series of photographic installations by Loukas Bartatilas focused on different thematic readings of the street.
Turning attention to a neglected artery of Athens, the project reads the street through its many layers — from unfiltered, almost chaotic information, to the urban details of spatial and social life, moving from space to inhabitant.
It culminates in an urban living room, which creates a platform for dialogue through on-site meetings and a rich mediation programme of walks, talks, projections, and discussions designed to activate the relationship between citizens and their city.
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Mediation& Public Engagement
Architectural mediation — turning architectural knowledge into shared public experience.
Through guided tours, talks, and public 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 co-developed and lead a series of guided tours of the original Bauhaus buildings and the Bauhaus Museum Dessau — bringing their history, architecture, and significance to life for both specialists and the wider public.
The tours explore not just the buildings and the objects themselves but the ideas that shaped them and continue to inform architectural thinking today.
Independent practice · Athens
Walking Athens —
Historic Triangle & Kypseli
Specialist architectural and historical tailor-made guided tours through two of Athens' most layered neighbourhoods.
The city center's Historic Triangle, where ancient, 19th-century, and modern Athens overlap, and Kypseli, a vibrant inter-war district that shaped 20th-century Athenian urban life and continues to draw attention to this day.
Designed for individuals, groups, and international organisations. Available in Greek, German, and English.
Selected talks
Talks on Architecture,
Memory & the City
Talks, conference papers, and public presentations in academic and cultural contexts. Recent venues include the Athens Conservatoire, the Freie Universität Berlin, the National Technical University of Athens, Panteion University, and the Young Bauhaus Colloquium at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar — with further engagements including DOCOMOMO Greece.
Topics range from the Bauhaus and modernism in Greece and Germany to Ioannis Despotopoulos and other architects in exile, and the urban memory of cities.
Curated public programme · 2019
Bauhaus 100 — Public Programme
at the Athens Conservatoire
A two-month public programme of architectural mediation — talks, guided tours, performances, projections, workshops for children, and a VR experience.
The programme brought together scholars, professors, journalists, architects, and artists, developed alongside the From Building to Community exhibition for the centenary of the Bauhaus in 2019.
The programme opened the Athens Conservatoire — the building Ioannis Despotopoulos himself designed, which now hosts the exhibition — to architects, students, scholars, and the wider public of Athens, with contributors from Greece and Germany.
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Writing& Research
Research and writing rooted in the Bauhaus legacy and modernism in Greece and Germany. From doctoral research and edited publications to academic presentations and conference papers.
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.
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.
Akademie der Künste, Berlin — Days of Exile
A public academic presentation at the Akademie der Künste Berlin (2023), delivered as part of the city's Days of Exile programme. The presentation drew on original research into the exile trajectories of Martin Wagner and Bruno Taut — two architects who shaped Berlin's modern identity during the Weimar Republic — tracing Wagner's years in Turkey and the United States, and Taut's in Japan and Turkey after 1933.
Cultural Βuildings on the Urban Space
Conceived and co-organised the conference, presented original research in a panel session, and chaired a session on Cultural Buildings and their Role in Cold War West Berlin: the Cases of the Philharmonie, the Akademie der Künste, and the Bauhaus-Archiv. Full conference proceedings available on YouTube.
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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. The Athens team worked on Varvakeios Square through a series of citizen workshops, developing a participatory approach to urban planning that placed residents at the centre of the design process.
Institutional collaboration
City of Athens —
Municipality Market of Kypseli
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.
Community Project
NEON Organization —
syn.desmoi
An one-year artistic research project on the Kypseli neighbourhood of Athens, commissioned by NEON within its 2015 Community Project initiative. The project called "syn.desmoi" produced "Kypseli: Research and Mapping of the Neighborhood", an online publication tracing the area's social, cultural, and architectural assets, and developed a methodology for engaging the local community through Public Art.
Let's work
together!
If you are a cultural institution, foundation, university, or organisation looking to collaborate — on an exhibition, a public programme, a talk, or a research project — I would be glad to hear from you.
post@loukasbartatilas.com