Dimitra Kondylatou
Dimitra Kondylatou

Public Health in Crisis
Dimitra Kondylatou, Nicolas Lakiotakis and 2 more
Epidemics and pandemics undermine societies and highlight the vulnerability of relations people have created to the land, other species, and each other. This book presents fragments of disease management in the Mediterranean from the 15th-century onwards and in the Aegean Archipelago in the last two centuries. From religious to medical approaches to the Bubonic Plague, through the creation of lazarettos, to the famine in occupied Syros, to ghost ships drifting on the Mediterranean: citizens are forced to avoid citizens. Public health in crisis: confinement versus mobility, awakening memories of totalitarian regimes.
CONTENTS
Impending Arrivals by Dimitra Kondylatou
Cruises to Nowhere
Covid-19 stricken Ships
Ghost Ships drifting on the Mediterranean
Suspended Arrivals by Dimitra Kondylatou
Le Corbusier Confined
Venice, Lazaretto and Black Death
Confined Spaces by Dimitra Kondylatou
Religious versus Medical Approaches to the Plague
Public Health and Public Order
Architectures of Control
The Lazaretto at Syros
Confinement and Totalitarianism, Famine in Occupied Syros
by Nicolas Lakiotakis
Panic Room. Waiting Room. Island.
by Hulya Ertas

Free Love Paid Love
Juan Duque, Nicolas Lakiotakis and 2 more
Nowhere in Cycladic culture has love been defined in a singular all-encompassing manner. Forces of attraction, affection, connection, and relation were ascribed in a plurality of ways. Through symposia in Delos, the tax haven of antiquity, 17th-century transactions of love involving pirates, slaves, and Mykonians; naturist communities reliving sexual freedom in the 1960-70s and 21st-century tourists quest in search of love, free or paid; this book gathers fragments of expressions of affection across Mykonos island. Mykonos has long defined itself as a self-ruling place far away from realities lived elsewhere.
CONTENTS
Transactions of Love
by Nicolas Lakiotakis
To Watch every Sunset as if it was the Last One
by Juan Duque
Faces of Love
by Denis Maksimov
Professional Hugs
by Dimitra Kondylatou

The Architect is Absent
Dimitra Kondylatou, Nicolas Lakiotakis and 2 more
The white cubical house, the vernacular architecture in the Aegean Archipelago, knows no author. Its capacity to resist harsh climatic and topographic circumstances has been improved and adjusted through time and seems today close to perfection. The white-washed Cycladic House has become iconic to the image of Greece through the construction of national and tourism narratives. What happens when an architect steps into this process of anonymous transmission of skills? In 1966 music composer, architect, and engineer Iannis Xenakis articulated a response to this tradition and designed, from his base in Paris, a holiday house on the island of Amorgos while choosing to remain absent throughout the construction process.
CONTENTS
Constructing through Absence
by Hulya Ertas
Meteorites
by Mâkhi Xenakis
Summer Home for François-Bernard Mâche by Iannis Xenakis, 1966–74
by Sharon Kanach
Villa Mâche: a harsh hijack against the space of the sun
by David Bergé
Traveling to the Cyclades: Modernist Projections
by Dimitra Kondylatou
Iannis Xenakis, Selected Projects from Critical Index
by Sven Sterken