PROF. DR. KONSTANTINOS MORAITIS

Areas of Expertise

• Architectural design
• landscape architecture design
• history and theory of landscape
• cultural landscape research,
• place and territory branding

Brief Bio

Professor Konstantinos Moraitis is a qualified architect (National Technical University of Athens 1978). He may moreover present the following academic qualifications:

• D.E.A. de Philosophie Éthique et Politique (‘Diplôme d’ Études Approfondies’ equivalent to the M.Sc. diploma in Ethical and Political Philosophy), Univ. de Paris I, Pantéon-Sorbonne (1980). Postgraduate program of Ethical Philosophy, Political Philosophy and Critical History of Art.
• M.Sc. in Mediterranean, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Panteion University of Athens - Social and Political Sciences (1981). Postgraduate program of the “Hellenic Mediterranean Center of Arabic and Islamic Studies” (EMKAIS)
• Ph.D. in Architecture and Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture NTUA, under the subject: “Landscape – Allocating place through Civilization: Exposition and theoretical correlation of the most significant modern approaches concerning landscape”.

DIDACTIC ACTIVITY:

1982-1987: Scientific Assistant (School of Architecture NTUA)

1987-1994: Lecturer (School of Architecture NTUA)
1994–2007: Assistant Professor (School of Architecture NTUA)
2007-2011: Associate Professor (School of Architecture NTUA)
2011-2020: Professor (School of Architecture NTUA) Since 2021 Emeritus Professor (School of Architecture NTUA).

At the undergraduate level, he taught courses on architectural design, urban design and landscape design. He was the first to introduce, in the curriculum of the School of Architecture NTUA, lessons dedicated to landscape design (for the first time in 2004).

He is also didactic responsible or participates in interdepartmental postgraduate programs of NTUA:

• Responsible for the postgraduate seminar of “History and Theory of Landscape Design” (1996-till now).
• Responsible for the postgraduate seminar “Built Environment and Development, of the postgraduate program Environment and Development - 1^st stream” (2018-2020).
• Participation to the postgraduate seminar “Built Environment and Development, of the postgraduate program Environment and Development - 1^st stream” (2020-till now).
• Participation to the postgraduate program “Environment and Development - 2nd stream, Environment and Development of Mountain Regions”, held annually in the Metsovion Interdisciplinary Research Centre (MIRC) in Metsovo, Greece (2016-till now).
• Participation to the Erasmus Plus joint master “Architecture, Landscape, Archaeology”, organized by Sapienza University of Rome, National Technical University of Athens, University of Coimbra and University of Naples (2019-till now).
• Didactic responsible for Ph.D. theses (12 theses successfully finished till now).
• Visiting professor in foreign universities (Sapienza University of Rome, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, Frederick University of Nicosia etc.)

His research interests are concentrated on the area of Theory and Methodology of Architectural Design, Architectural Design, Theory and Design of the Landscape, Philosophy of Culture, and Philosophy of Aesthetics.

His research experience includes participation in 28 programs and projects; among them the programs concerning the:

• “Touring promotion of places of archaeological importance: Organization of physical itineraries in correlation to digital guidance” (2020-2022, responsible for the research team).
• “Revolutionary Palimpsests: Historic and geographical research, concerning the nodal historical territories of the 1821 Hellenic Revolution” (2020-2021, participation to the research team).
• “Research on the historic region of Souli: Promotion, conservation and development of its cultural landscape” (2020-2021, participation to the research as an architectural design, landscape design and place branding contributor).
• “Ottomans and the Hellenic landscape: Landscape apperception in the territory of Greece, during the period of the ottoman governance, and its influence on architectural and landscape design” (2020-2021, responsible for the research team).

He has also participated and organized, as part of scientific and organization committees, many national and international seminars, workshops, scientific meetings, and conferences. Furthermore:

• Participation, as lecturer, in 36 scientific seminars in Greece and abroad.
• Participation, with presentation of lectures, in 145 conferences in Greece and abroad.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

43 years of professional experience, focusing on architectural, urban and landscape design and construction. He may present 33 projects, awarded in National and International architectural competitions. Among them 10 FIRST PRIZE distinctions, 2 of them in international competitions.

MEMBERSHIP IN:

• Hellenic Society for Aesthetics – HAS (member of the Board of Directors)
• International Association for Aesthetics – IAA (as representative of the HAS)
• Hellenic ICOMOS (member of the Board)
• International Federation of Landscape Architects - IFLA (as representative of the Hellenic ICOMOS)
• International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes – ISCCL (as representative of the Hellenic ICOMOS)
• Greek Philosophical Society

Publications (Weblink only), if any:

• Schemes of Landscape. Landscape Design as α specific case of the architectural didactics - written in Greek under the title: Σχήματα τοπίου. Ο σχεδιασμός του τοπίου ως ειδική περίπτωση αρχιτεκτονικής διδακτικής. - 2015, Athens, Kallipos edit. – https://repository.kallipos.gr/handle/11419/2796
• The art of Landscape. A cultural overview of the neoteric theorization and formation of landscape - written in Greek under the title: Η Τέχνη του Τοπίου. Πολιτιστική επισκόπηση των νεωτερικών τοπιακών θεωρήσεων και διαμορφώσεων. 2015, Athens, Kallipos edit. – https://repository.kallipos.gr/handle/11419/2621
• “The Cultural Landscape Past of the Eastern Mediterranean: The Border Lord’s Gardens and the Common Landscape Tradition of the Arabic and Byzantine Culture” – In: Land 2018, 7(1), 28 - https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/7/1/28/xml also in https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323421583_The_Cultural_Landscape_Past_of_the_Eastern_Mediterranean_
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• “Branding Strategies for Cultural Landscape Promotion: Organizing Real and Virtual Place Networks” – In: TMM_CH 2018: Transdisciplinary Multispectral Modeling and Cooperation for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, - 2019, Springer edit., pp 105-118.