@elefthkonst.bsky.social
Architect & Architectural historian PhD Candidate @NTUA Digital Humanities & Ottoman Architecture Research coordinator @Open House Athens
π The Bernat Klein Studio has been saved!
A coalition of Scottish heritage orgs secured it at auction for Β£279,000.
This modernist gem by Peter Womersley will now be restored for public + creative use.
π Huge congratulations to all involved!
Professor Machiel Kiel (February 25, 1938-July 7, 2025) passed away yesterday.
A special loss for Greek ottoman history as well. Machiel Kiel was the first to show, in a couple of publications he co-authored with the architect Dimitris Karydis in the early 1980s, that Greek populations
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A concrete building, made up of a series of cantilevered terraces.
Excellent news that the Bernat Klein studio has been bought by a coalition of heritage groups. The hard work starts here. Photo by me in 2016.
30.07.2025 10:49 β π 14 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Very cool! Just to confirm, is this drop-in or do we need to book ahead? Thanks!
22.07.2025 17:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A research tool built by journalists on Greece's intense demolition and construction activity is also a strong example of a digital humanities project in architectural history, that utilizes crowdsourcing methods. Let's record our lost architectural heritage and raise awareness!
22.07.2025 13:29 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Excellent research! Congratulations @dankon.bsky.social
04.07.2025 18:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π’ CLS INFRA Online Workshop π’
All welcome! Registration now open at link below.
π Wed 9 July
π 10:30 CEST
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Excellent news!! Thank you!
30.05.2025 06:46 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Looking forward to this conference, it is online as well, if anyone is interested!
30.05.2025 06:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We're currently looking for someone to join us in Architectural History at Edinburgh for the 2025-26 year (and a little bit after) to cover a colleague's research leave: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Last week I had the opportunity to join the hands-on workshop on Network Analysis by @mjcbac.bsky.social & BSANA; an insightful, rich, and well-organized experience! Many thanks to the fantastic workshop leaders and the organizers!
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Registration for Introduction to Network Analysis for Byzantinists with Alexander Brey, Zachary Chitwood, Ryan Horne, Christian Raffensperger, & Katerina Ragkou closes in one week, on May 1, 2025. May 12β16 on Zoom. More info: maryjahariscenter.org/events/intro...
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The first person to discover a link between increased levels of CO2 and #globalwarming was a New Yorker named Eunice Newton Foote. Read her 1856 paper, and how she went unacknowledged for more than a century, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #earthday #climatechange
22.04.2025 14:16 β π 102 π 36 π¬ 3 π 2This goes along with the DH Advancement Grant funding opportunity cancellation for 2026.
Seems like we are taking another step backwards. www.neh.gov/grants/odh/d...
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04.03.2025 09:12 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0π· INTIME
28.02.2025 18:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Today marks a terrible day for Greek history. Two years ago 57 people -mostly students- died in a head-on collision of two trains in Tempi. Today inconceivable number of people filled the streets even in the less populated areas, for justice and against govt cover-up & corruption. We have no oxygen.
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Second Meeting of Balkan History - Reconsidering Balkan rebellions in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman era: concepts, interpretative frameworks and methodologies
Program: ims.forth.gr/el/news-item... (incl. a paper by yours truly).
Live streaming : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fuaz...
Happy #DayofDH2024!
My DH day found me on QGIS mapping Ottoman khans and caravanserais in northern part of Greece for an article submission! πΊοΈ
Please share:
Call for Applications
Winter School: Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources
March 17-25, 2025, Rethymno (Greece), IMS/FORTH
www.ims.forth.gr/en/news-item...
