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Feb 140 min read


SUCY Architecture Seminar Series
Title: Architecture and Politics of Tourism: From Cyprus to the Global South Speakers: Dimitris Venizelos, Nikos Moudouros, Panayiota...
mesarch
Jan 311 min read


Special issue in Fabrications journal!
Edited by Savia Palate and Panayiota Pyla. Find the full issue here: What is Shared? Architectural Heritage in Conflict
mesarch
Jan 151 min read


Snapshots from the Book Launch of 'Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism: Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt'
The House of Cyprus, the Mesarch Lab, the Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus, and the Department of Architecture,...
mesarch
Aug 23, 20241 min read
Participation in the 6th International Conference on Changing Cities
Mesarch Lab researcher Anastasia Psoma participated in the Changing Cities VI conference held on Rhodes Island, Greece (June 24-28,...
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Jul 2, 20241 min read


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Jun 7, 20240 min read


Mesarch in the press
Read about architectural history of the past and future in Cyprus in this week's Phileleftheros.
mesarch
Jul 10, 20221 min read


New Edited Volume on Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism
This volume offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming...
mesarch
Jun 23, 20221 min read


Project Launch: Uneasy Leisure
We are happy to announce that our latest funded project 'Uneasy Leisure: Modern Hotels and Shared Heritage on a Divided Island' has...
mesarch
Feb 1, 20221 min read


Around a Buffer Zone Pool
See Mesarch director, Panayiota Pyla's contribution to the Venice Biennale 2021 publication here.
mesarch
Oct 21, 20211 min read


Interview on the Ledra Palace Hotel
Following the lecture they gave at the Leventis Municipality Museum of Nicosia on the 5th of October, titled “More Than A Hotel: The...
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Oct 18, 20211 min read


More Than A Hotel: The Ledra Palace Through Stories of Tourism and Modernism
Last night, Panayiota Pyla and Savia Palate gave a lecture at the exhibition 'Ledra Palace: Dancing on the Line' hosted by the Leventis...
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Oct 6, 20211 min read


Architectural Archive
As part of the retrospective exhibition 'Past-forward: Stavros Economou Unarchived' hosted by the State Gallery of Contemporary Art and...
mesarch
Sep 18, 20211 min read


Back to the Modern
As part of the retrospective exhibition 'Past-forward: Stavros Economou Unarchived' hosted by the State Gallery of Contemporary Art and...
mesarch
Sep 5, 20211 min read


CFP on Leisurescapes
Leisurescapes: Architectures and Landscapes of Tourism in the Global Sun Belt 1945-1980 In conjunction with an ongoing Cyprus-based...
mesarch
Jan 8, 20203 min read


Cyprus and Bauhaus
Panayiota Pyla gave a lecture on the 'The ideas of Bauhaus and modernism in Cyprus', as part of the Bauhaus Conference, organised by...
mesarch
Sep 6, 20191 min read
Project Launch: Landscapes of Leisure and Politics
The funded project 'Landscapes of Leisure and Politics: The Architectural History of Tourism and Conflict in Cyprus,' funded by the...
mesarch
Jun 13, 20191 min read
Project Launch: Landscapes of Tourism in Cyprus and Bali
The research project 'Landscapes of Tourism in Cyprus and Bali: Architectural, Social and Environmental Dimensions,' funded by the...
mesarch
Jun 13, 20191 min read


Lecture on Jerusalem’s Archaeology
Monday, 04 March 2019, Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus Title: UNDER JERUSALEM: THE RELENTLESS MODERNIZATION OF JEWISH...
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Mar 4, 20191 min read


The Constructed and the Unspoiled: Accounts of tourist development in Cyprus, 1960-1974
Multimedia exhibit in the context of the workshop “Landscapes of Leisure: Architectural Histories of Tourism and Development” June...
mesarch
Jan 9, 20193 min read
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