BUILD Q1 2025 Eminent architect practice, Potiropoulos & Partners, was originally founded in 1989 and has established itself as one of Greece’s foremost architectural firms. Today its strong team of highly creative and talented architects and designers addresses the world market, providing full services in design, supervision and consulting across the spectrum and in all scales of architecture and urban design. We find out more from Founding Partner, Potiropoulos Dimitris as the practice is recognized in the Design & Build Awards 2025. Architectural Balance and Perfection Contact Details: Contact: Potiropoulos Dimitris Company: Potiropoulos & Partners Web Address: www.potiropoulos.gr Based in Athens, with offices in London, Potiropoulos & Partners is one of Greece’s leading architectural practices, with the firm’s aim being to constantly seek new creative ideas and innovative technological solutions, thus providing added value to the built environment. Largely against a pre-devised strategy for every project or a strictly problem-solving approach, Potiropoulos & Partners focuses on expression and emotion towards an architecture that is “living” and “growing” with the client, to re-interpret spatial and material ambitions into beautiful and well-informed designs. The company’s approach is predominantly design oriented and starts from inspiration and ideas to form a personal vision. Then, to devise a set of relationships starting from the fundamental elements of architecture. “We incorporate the scale, the proportions, the light, and the shadows,” elaborates Potiropoulos Dimitris, the firm’s Founder and Managing Partner. “This results in a spontaneous and unanticipated sensation of feelings about beauty, about memory, about feeling comfortable ‘inside’. This is what architecture is for us.” With creativity at the very core of its design ethos, Potiropoulos & Partners is very receptive to new ideas and innovations. Recently, Mr Dimitris has witnessed unprecedented environmental challenges, along with the rapid growth of all digital technologies, and more specifically the integration of Artificial Intelligence with CAD based design, which is a paradigm shifting tool with the potential to revolutionise the way people think and design the built environment. He does, however, have a plan to address the issues he is facing in order to create a smooth and efficient connection between new models and pre-existing workflows without disruptions. “It is evident that we need to re-evaluate the more traditional practices and techniques and create our own design parameters in order to harness the power of AI to set new standards,” he explains. “Now, at a more entrepreneurial level, we understand that the integration of new business models between architecture, engineering and construction need to be constantly supported by boosting innovation.” In the build environment, sustainability is becoming an increasingly key focus, with more and more clients wanting an environmentally friendly solution. Potiropoulos & Partners works with a team of engineers and environmental specialists to ensure the maximisation of performance of each building and to minimise waste. The company does not use sustainability as a generative tool at the early design stages because its projects need to address questions relating to the city, the immediate urban context, and the history of each place etc. Once the concept has been developed, as an initial response to the brief, it then explores various methods to introduce a holistic sustainability approach that will impact the building through all the phases of its lifecycle. “Architecture is strongly connected with society and culture in general so beyond our technical considerations and aesthetics, our designs need to somehow assess and respond to social dynamics and address the needs of the community,” Mr Dimitris tells us. “The quest for a balanced relationship between the built environment and the social and cultural context remains one of the primary issues of way of doing architecture. “Within the specific social and cultural context, architecture is required to respond with intellectual, sustainable, critical, and sentimental spatial practices and alternative forms of knowledge. By intervening between the physical phenomena and the human being, architecture contributes, both in pragmatic and semantic level, to the satisfaction of forgotten primordial needs.” Recently, thanks to its passion for creating memorable architecture based on creativity, research, innovation and excellence, Potiropoulos & Partners gained notable recognition in the Design & Build Awards 2025, being crowned with the prestigious title of Most Innovative Architecture Practice 2025 – Greece for its stellar contribution to the industry. With the future beckoning, and in an era of rapid technological growth and mass consumerism, designing for permanence, in response to challenges and adaptation, is a form of innovation and continuing to design culturally resilient buildings is a top priority for Mr Dimitris. “We finish every project with a sense of “non-finito”, so that the next day, we can come back and re-discover it again, but in different terms” he states. “In a way, this is a process of innovation in itself and shows the multifaceted nature of our work. When this approach is applied to a wider scale, it allows us to challenge the notions of classical and modern aesthetics, form scale, structure, and permanence.”
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