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HIGHER EDUCATION:

B.A(Hon's) Architecture, Thames Polytechnic, London, 1978-1981.

 

GRADUATE STUDIES:

Post-Graduate Diploma in Architecture with Hon's, Dip.Arch(Hon's), Thames Polytechnic, London, 1982-1984.

 

PROFES. STUDIES:

Post-Graduate Certificate in Professional Architectural Studies, Thames Polytechnic, London, part-time studies while in practice, 1984-1987.

 

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Elected as Corporate Member of The Royal Institute of British Architects, R.I.B.A. - 1985 Registered with The Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom, A.R.C.U.K. - 1985

 

PAPERS:

On the Development of the Traditional Cypriot Village. On the Development of Refugee Housing in Cyprus.

 

COMPETITIONS:

Finalist, The Church Design Competition, The Building Centre, London, November 1982. Mention, The Antiquariat-Memory of the City Competition, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 1987.

 

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Freelance Architect under own name and style based in London. Recent projects include two residential complexes, 40 and 15 villas, a monument, large private houses, a 24-room hotel extension at Ilford, an upper parts conversion to 6 flats at New Cross, factories, numerable residential conversions, developer projects, small private residences and offices.

 

Head of Architecture at CHRISTO & CO, Camden Town, London. Projects included large scale refurbishments, office development and residential conversions.

 

Freelance Architect under own name and style. Projects include Military Aircraft Shelters, Mixed Development Centres, A complex of Holiday Villas, Private Residences, Listed Buildings Assessment for the Department of Planning, and Developer Projects.

 

Employed as Architect / Project Manager with G.P.Zachariades (Overseas) Ltd, Building Contractors in Bahrain. Projects included The Bahrain School, Banoco Filling Station, Landscape projects for the Bahrain Royal Family and Refurbishment of Gulf Hotel.

 

Special courses and studies in Computers (Software and Hardware), Computer Aided Design and Desk-Top-Publishing. Fluent in Autocad R11/R12/R13/R14, DCA Auto-Architect, and Windows in conjunction with Aldus Pagemaker, MS-Word, MS-Project, and MS-Excell. Also Wordperfect 6.00 for Windows. Languages: GW Basic.

 

Directed a group of final year students at Greenwich University, London, to prepare competition designs for a new Municipal Hall in Cyprus.

 

Employed as a member of the Design Team of The Leptos Coral Beach Hotel, a USD 35,000,000 hotel development at Paphos, Cyprus. Specific duties included bathroom / typical room and special areas design including finishes, all utilities, furniture and equipment, and full supervision.

 

Freelance Architect under own name and style. Projects include Housing (Private and Public), Luxury Villas, Restaurants, Sports Grounds, School Buildings, Offices, E.E.C Animal Housing Schemes, Community Centres, Monuments, Clubs and a large variety of smaller projects.

 

Trained with The Architects Workshop, London, 1981-1982, Position as Assistant to Mr Barry Wilson.

 

Lecturer in Art and Art Appreciation, The Cyprus College, Cyprus. Visiting Lecturer on High Technology Structures, The Higher Technical Institute, Cyprus. Lecturer on Architectural Design, The Nicosia Technical School.

Producing and directing a film is, in many ways, the same as planning and realising a new building. The Architect/Director is faced with the same dilemmas, the same aesthetic and functional considerations. Film is a form of art while Architecture is the mother of all arts. It is only with being fully aware of our place in history that we can produce anything of value. Le Corbusier set the crucial question, Architecture or Revolution, to which Charles Jenks replied Architecture and Revolution.

 

To this I say only this:

 

Architecture, Film and Revolution. It is the only way forward.