A brief introduction to the historic core of Thessaloniki, to a neoclassic city with (post-war) blocks of flats. We have tried to trace this inherent neoclassic character, because of the loss of the easy-to-recognize historic buildings. An attempt to uncover a hidden, but dominating, spatial structure. We have concluded to propose the city plan as a cultural object/artefact, as a monument per se. (It is a fair excuse for the Cultural Capital of Europe in 1997).

But it is not about the reconstruction/restoration of the Plan. Now, the neoclassic plan has become to us an evident spatial structure, a strong context, an inertia. You can not but to re-assure the plan of neoclassicism. An adventure occurs: to disarticulate its evidence, to dissociate the components that compose the Plan. To destabilize ways of perception, historical (as contextual) terms of long duration. (Without questioning neoclassicism or the plan, only but the Plan).

The more we are analyzing the Plan and we are condensing its "meaning", as it seems we are reaching its "truth", the more it dissolves and expands to unforeseen directions. We are involved in an experimental operation, in an employment of hybrid techniques, and unavoidably in the digital condition.

Architecture or Resolution?

George Th. Koutoupis reference

Born in Serres, north of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Studies at the Department of Architecture, Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Doctoral dissertation on urban design and structural analysis of the city plan of the intramural Thessaloniki.

Travels to West and East Europe, Balkan Countries, Middle East, Cyberspace.