Agnes Couvelas 
Total Projects from Agnes Couvelas: 6
Graduate of NTUA in Athens founded her own firm operating in a wide variety of projects, including commercial, administrative and residential buildings, cultural centers and historic sites throughout Greece. Primary requirements are durability, livability, and energy conservation in environmentally friendly designs. Lectures in Greece and abroad.Tracing the nature of the architectural approach employed in A. Couvelas’ works, one could discern a sense of correspondence with the “genius loci”, the spirit of the site. This relation manifests itself in a dynamic way, by means of a dialogue with the particular physical, social and cultural “reality” of the place, distancing her works from the “decontextualisation” that many projects of modernism exhibit.
Nonetheless the majority of Couvelas’ designs share a common ground with such works in terms of internal consistency and economy of form. The austere geometrical language features prominently in the majority of her buildings not as self-fulfilling obsession, but as an effort to respond with a minimum of means both to the functional exigencies of human beings and to the need for integration in the context of the above mentioned dynamic relation with the building’s site.
Major publications of realized projects of Agnes Couvelas:
Old Buildings Looking for New Use, 61 examples from Europe presented by Pierre Thiébaut, Edition Axel Menges 2007
Greek Architecture Now, Karin Skousbøll, Studio Art Bookshop, 2006
1000x European Architecture, brand affairs, 2006
The dispersed urbanity of the Aegean Archipelago
10th International exhibition of Architecture Venice Biennale, Catalogue of Greek participation, 2006
Best of Europe: Color, Intelligente architektur, 2005
The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary Architecture, Phaidon Press 2004
Architectural Awards 2000, Hellenic Institute of Architecture, 2001
20th Century Architecture Greece, Prester, 1999
Landscapes of Modernisation, Greek Architecture 1960s - 1990s,
Netherlands Architecture Institute, 1999
Architettura Greca Contemporanea, Guida 1945 - 1988, Aletheia, Firenze, 1991
European Masters, Annual of Interior Design /2, Editiones Atrium, 1990
Architecture in Greece, vol.17/1983, 20/1986, 30/1996, 33/1999, 40/2006
Design + art in Greece, vol. 13/1982, 14/1983, 17/1986, 21/1990, 22/1991, 23/1992,25/1994, 29/1998, 30/1999, 32/2001, 36/2005, 39/2008
Domus 789, vol. January 1997
The Architectural Review, vol.1236, 2000
website: www.couvelas.net
Featured Projects
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Archaeological Park in Grotta
Address: Chora of Naxos , NAXOS - Greece Architect: Agnes Couvelas Category: Cultural | Urban |
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Archaeological Park of the Marathon Tumulus
Address: Marathonas , ATHENS - Greece Architect: Agnes Couvelas Category: Cultural | Urban |
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Summer House on Andros Island
Address: Gavrio bay , ANDROS - Greece Architect: Agnes Couvelas Category: Housing |
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The House of the Winds on Santorini Island
Address: Akrotiri , SANTORINI - Greece Architect: Agnes Couvelas Category: Housing | Residential |
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The Museum of Prehistoric Thera
Address: Fira , SANTORINI - Greece Architect: Agnes Couvelas Category: Museums | Cultural |
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Two-family house in Kifissia
Address: Lefkosias 28, Kifissia , ATHENS - Greece Architect: Agnes Couvelas Category: Housing | Residential |
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