CLIENTS : Deutsche Telekom, OTE-Estate, Orizon Insurance, PWC, McBains, Folli Follie Group, Hewlett Packard, Grigoris Mikrogeumata, Orizon Realty New York City, Dimos Geraka, Dimos Filis
Nefeli Chatzimina is Founder of ArchitectScripta currently a PhD Candidate at the National Technical University of Athens. She is holding a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in New York city and a Diploma of Architectural Engineering from Metsovion Polytechnic University of Athens where she has been teaching the last years. Nefeli has taught as a Lecturer Architectural Core Studio and Seminars at the University of Southern California Los Angeles for three years, at the National Technical University of Athens and the Benaki Museum. She has been a guest crit at Columbia University for Bernard Tschumi’s studios, the Pratt Institute of New York, the University of Pennsylvania, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NYC, at Sci-Arc and UCLA. Nefeli has worked for three years as an Architect for her professor Bernard Tschumi in New York and is a registered Architect in TEE-TCG with Diploma Category A’. She has been Key Designer and Project Architect for several international awarded projects of big building scale and urban scale. Her professional work has been exhibited in galleries of New York [Guggenheim Museum], Los Angeles [Pacific Design Center], Kentucky [Land of Tomorrow], the Royal Institute of British Architects in London and in Athens Greece [The Benaki Museum]. Her thesis was selected among the First Distinctive Projects in the 4th European Biennial of landscape in Barcelona and her work has been published in magazines including ‘Form_The making of Design’. Projects of her team have been built including three housing projects in Athens, the Flagship store of Orizon Insurance company nominate for Mies Van der Roher Awards 2015 and the OTE-Estate Call Center in Athinas street nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe Awards 2019, won the BIG SEE Interior Design Award 2021, selected for the 9th Greek Biennale and exhibited at the Benaki Museum. Nefeli has recently lectured for her work at the Megaron Mousiki, at the Benaki Museum and at Technical Chamber of Greece.
Bernard Tschumi, FAIA, FRIBA, FAS
Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Dean Emeritus, 1988-2003
Bernard Tschumi Recommendation: ‘Nefeli has considerable talents. She is superbly visually gifted, has an excellent mathematical mind and a good understanding of contemporary architectural culture. While at our office, she worked for three years on more projects than I am able to mention. Since that time, her achievements have been truly remarkable. Teaching has been one important focus of her career, first at the University of Southern California School of Architecture in Los Angeles, then as a respected and sought-after critic at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and UCLA, among others. Nefeli eventually opened her professional architectural office, active in Greece and various international locations. Rewarded with exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the RIBA in London, Nefeli is recognized for the use of experimental design techniques and construction technology. Her built projects have impressed her peers, and I have no doubt she will become highly influential in the years to come. I can sincerely say that Nefeli has great architectural talent and is serious, hardworking, and highly responsible.’
Ed Keller Professor : Director of the Center for Transformative Media [CTM] at The New School in NYC, Associate Professor in the Parsons School of Design Strategies Columbia University GSAPP [1998-2010] and SCIArc [2004-09]
Ed Keller Recommendation: ‘All of Nefeli’s work is deeply thoughtful- whether analytical, diagrammatic, cinematic, designed space, objects or systems. There is a level of careful consideration, intelligence and quality in her work which is very rare. As well, she synthesizes a range of different cultures in her work, combining methods of design that she has brought from her education and practice in Greece with several divergent forms of design thinking which she has tested and developed at the Columbia GSAPP.’
Damianos Hatziminas is a registered Civil Engineer holding a Masters of Science in Environmental Engineering and a degree Bachelor’s degree of Civil Engineering, both from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. In parallel he holds a State License as a Construction Contractor for both private and public commissions. Damianos’ background involves around 15 years of professional experience in planning, engineering and coordinating construction projects from the predesign site selection process through construction Project Management and final project acceptance. His practice includes an array of countless residential and commercial developments as well as municipal engineered projects. He has been focusing both on private and public commissions, more specifically on single and multi-housing projects, in private stores and offices of high-end construction, in industrial buildings with specific factory line production and infrastructural projects of bigger scale in various cities of Attiki. Damianos is active in the academic field as a Professor of Civil Engineering from 2002-2004 teaching Enviromental Engineering at the American University of Athens, The College of Southeastern Europe. He is an active member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (ΤΕΕ), of the Register of Contractors' Enterprises of the Ministry for Environment, Town and Country Planning and Public Works (ΜΕΚ, ΜΕΕΠ) and the Surrey Alumni Association. Damianos has great ability in managing Human Resources and this is recognized through his organizational achievements.
Nikos Papavasileiou is Principal for ArchitectScripta holding a MSc from the National Technical University of Athens, graduated from the School of Architecture, Technical University of Crete. Nikos has taught as a Design Instructor several International Advanced Design Maya Workshops since 2012 at the National Technical University of Athens, the School of Fine Arts, the Benaki Museum and the University of Innsbruck. Nikos has also taught Studio as an Assistant at the National Technical University of Athens and has participated in various international awarded competitions and built projects of small and large scale. Given his design expertise Nikos has been appointed as a Lead Designer for built projects such as the OTE-Estate Call Center in Athinas, nominated to enter second phase for the ‘Mies Van der Rohe Awards’ in 2019 and a private residence in Palaio Psychiko. He has curated international architectural exhibitions at the Benaki Museum in Athens, the Center of Mediterranean Architecture in Chania and the 1st Biennale of Thessaloniki.
Anna Sapountzaki holds a Diploma (Integrated Master) in Civil Engineering graduating with distinction from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) (2015-2020), with a specialization in Structural Engineering and an MSc in Emergent Technologies & Design from the Architecture Association (AA), School of Architecture London (2020-2021). During her graduate studies she participated in various team projects by applying parametric and computational design to address future challenges in architecture. Throughout the design process Anna communicated and collaborated effectively with architects from all around the world to gain more in-depth knowledge and form a better understanding of parametric architecture. Currently, she is working as a Project Architect at ArchitectScripta where she contributes to the development and design process of urban residencies with an emphasis on parametric features. She is experienced on the structural analysis of large-scale infrastructure projects.
Justin Brechtel is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Southern California School of Architecture where he teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in design technologies, rapid prototyping and design methodologies utilizing advanced computer modeling techniques. Justin has also taught courses at the UCLA A.UD and Woodbury University. He is a licensed architect in the state of California and a LEED Accredited Professional. Justin is holding a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University and has received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from CALA at the University of Arizona. His research focus is an unorthodox mixture of emerging fabrication technologies; design critique, philosophy, and course work in real estate development and financing. His studio work has been featured in the Columbia Abstract and the exhibit Intimacy: Beyond Media, in Florence, Italy. Justin currently is a Senior Computational Designer with the Los Angeles office of Perkins+Will and has previously worked with Steven Ehrlich Architects in Culver City and Belzberg Architects in Santa Monica California. He was responsible for several award-winning residential and commercial projects and featured in numerous domestic and international publications. His work focuses on data-driven design of large-scale architectural and urban design projects around the world. Justin is also a contributor to AREA Research where he is currently working on the Drylands Resiliency Initiative that was recently awarded the Latrobe prize.