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Speakers: Dimitris Venizelos, Nikos Moudouros, Panayiota Pyla, Petros Phokaides Coordinated by: Savia Palate Date: Thursday 30th January, 7:00pm - 8:30pm Location: Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus

Edited by Savia Palate and Panayiota Pyla. Find the full issue here: What is Shared? Architectural Heritage in Conflict

The House of Cyprus, the Mesarch Lab, the Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus, and the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly held a book launch on Thursday June 20th 2024 for the edited volume   Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism: Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt (Routledge 2022) Edited by: Sibel Bozdoğan, Panayiota Pyla, Petros Phokaides   Speakers discussing the book were: Esra Ackan , Professor, Cornell University Daniel Barber , Pro

Mesarch Lab researcher Anastasia Psoma participated in the Changing Cities VI conference held on Rhodes Island, Greece (June 24-28, 2024), through online participation. She presented the following work (co-authored with P. Pyla): Oral Presentation: "Protecting Built Heritage from Changing Waterscapes: Lessons from Cyprus." Poster Presentation: "Reassessing Varosha: A Research Agenda for Heritage Sites in Conflict Zones." Both online presentations took place on Friday, June 28

Read about architectural history of the past and future in Cyprus in this week's Phileleftheros.

This volume offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming...

We are happy to announce that our latest funded project 'Uneasy Leisure: Modern Hotels and Shared Heritage on a Divided Island' has...

See Mesarch director, Panayiota Pyla's contribution to the Venice Biennale 2021 publication here.

Following the lecture they gave at the Leventis Municipality Museum of Nicosia on the 5th of October, titled “More Than A Hotel: The...

Last night, Panayiota Pyla and Savia Palate gave a lecture at the exhibition 'Ledra Palace: Dancing on the Line' hosted by the Leventis...

As part of the retrospective exhibition 'Past-forward: Stavros Economou Unarchived' hosted by the State Gallery of Contemporary Art and...

As part of the retrospective exhibition 'Past-forward: Stavros Economou Unarchived' hosted by the State Gallery of Contemporary Art and...

Leisurescapes: Architectures and Landscapes of Tourism in the Global Sun Belt 1945-1980 In conjunction with an ongoing Cyprus-based...

Panayiota Pyla gave a lecture on the 'The ideas of Bauhaus and modernism in Cyprus', as part of the Bauhaus Conference, organised by...

The funded project 'Landscapes of Leisure and Politics: The Architectural History of Tourism and Conflict in Cyprus,' funded by the...

The research project 'Landscapes of Tourism in Cyprus and Bali: Architectural, Social and Environmental Dimensions,' funded by the...