Panos Tzonos
Panos Tzonos studied Architecture at the T.U. Karlsruhe, obtained his MA from the A.A. School of Architecture, London, and his Doctorate from the School of Architecture, University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has been Professor of Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 1974. He has served twice as head of the School of Architecture. […]
Panos Tzonos studied Architecture at the T.U. Karlsruhe, obtained his MA from the A.A. School of Architecture, London, and his Doctorate from the School of Architecture, University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has been Professor of Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 1974. He has served twice as head of the School of Architecture. Since 2002 he has been chief coordinator of the module “Architectural Programming and Design of Exhibitions, Museums, Archaeological Sites, Monuments and Heritage Complexes” at the Interuniversity Programme of Postgraduate Studies in Museology, University of Thessaloniki and University of Western Macedonia.
Since 1966 he has been partner at the architectural office of “P.Tzonos, G. Heupel, X. Heupel”, based in Thessaloniki and Athens, which has participated in numerous architectural competitions, has won numerous awards and prizes, and has been offered commissions for many private and public buildings and complexes. Over the last fifteen years he has worked mostly on commissions related to culture, such as
-the design of the “Dimitris Mitropoulos Hall”, the Foyers and the furniture and equipment of the Athens Concert Halls (“Megaron”) and the design of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall.
-the interior design and exhibition design of the permanent collection at the National Gallery in Athens,
-the design of a series of temporary exhibitions at the National Gallery in Athens, including the highly successful “From Theotocopoulos to Cezanne” in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution,
-the exhibition programming of the Museum of the Holy Monastery of Kykkos in Cyprus,
-the exhibition design of the Museum of the Holy Metropolis of Thessaloniki, (reviewed in the Winter issue 2007 of the British Museum Practice),
-the architectural design of the NOESIS Centre for the Promotion of Sciences and Technology in Thessaloniki,
-the exhibition design of the Gerovassiliou Wine Museum, Thessaloniki,
-the preservation and conversion of the heritage building of the National Gallery of Sculpture in Athens,
– the exhibition design of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Sculpture in Athens, as well as the design of the Henry Moore Exhibition and the Christos Kapralos Retrospective at the same gallery,
-the conversion of the old textile factory of YFANET in Thessaloniki into a Museum for Contemporary Art,
-the conversion of Tobacco Silos into Tobacco Museum of Xanthi, Thrace,
-the planning, design and presentation of the Hellenistic and Roman archaeological sites of Pella in Northern Greece,
-the exhibition design of the Ecclesiastical Museum of the Holy Metropolis of Alexandroupolis, Thrace,
– the exhibition design of the Folk Museum of Velvendo, Kozani, Western Macedonia,
– the architectural design of the Museum of the Municipal Library of Kozani, Western Macedonia,
-the design of the interior and exhibition spaces of the V.& M. Theocharakis Visual Arts and Music Foundation in Athens,
-the design for the inclusion of Christos Kapralos’ sculptural frieze within the Peristylion of the heritage building of the Hellenic Parliament.
He has written several books on theory of architecture, architectural programming and design, museum architecture and exhibition design, including `Organising an Architectural Design Project, (1982), The Typology of Residential Buildings (1983), Four Value Systems in the Theory of Contemporary Architecture (1985), Sunlight in Architectural Design (1985), Architectural Design: What Could That Be? (1996), Architectural Design and Science (2001), The Iliad, Our World (2005), Museum and Modernity (2007), An Art lover’s Notes On Contemporary Art (2007), Museum and Exhibition Design – theory and practice (2013).
He has served as member of the first academic committee for the newly-founded School of Technology in Crete, and was vice-president at the Board of the Property Development and Management Company, S.A. for the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
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e-mail: ptzonos@gmail.com