03/11/2024
Invisible Hotel Exhibition (2005)
A Design Ambassador production 20 years ago curated by Memos Philippidis
Project: Room Service by Panos Nikolaidis & Erica Protestou
Design hotels is a magnet attracting a new informed clientele as well as the most talented architects and designers in the world . The impressive hotels designed by Philippe Starck, Antonio Citterio, Mattheo Thun, Graft, King+Roselli or Yabu Pushelberg, have established what their designers consider the ideal residence. Design hotels have offered us the unique opportunity to be temporarily hosted in the living room, the dining room and the bedrooms of a luxury house that embodies with clarity the vision of the designer and architect for the ideal home. A vision disengaged from any regional limitations and the personal “signature” of an individual client who usually asks for a domestic architecture of the familiar and the deja vu.
The forthcoming exhibition Invisible Hotel (Athens, April 2005) makes one step further: It disengages the participating architects completely from any budget and pre-selected site. It arranges the meeting with the ideal client. Invisible Hotel presents 10 virtual projects designed by the best Greek avant-garde architects. The projects will be represented with digital renderings and animations (walkthroughs).
The young architects participating in the Invisible Hotel exhibition (in alphabetic order): Andreas Angelidakis, Yiannis Aisopos, Iro Bertaki+Christina Loukopoulou+Kostis Panigiris, Panos Dragonas+Varvara Hristopoulou, Thanasis Hohlidakis, Eleana Horiti, Eleni Kostika, Stella Merminga+Vangelis Ravanos, Panos Nikolaidis + Errica Protestou, and Nikolas Travasaros.
Jury: Stavros Andreadis, President of the Association of Greek Tourist Enterprises (SETE), Harry Bougadellis Architect, Stelios Dimou Architect, Kostis Georgiou Painter/Sculptor, Babis Ioannou Architect, Dakis IoannouBusinessman and International Art Collector, Nikos Ktenas Architect, Dimitris PotiropoulosArchitect, Alexandros Tombazis Architect, Tasos Zeppos Architect. International Jury: Juergen Mayer, Roman Delugan, Joel Sanders & David Chipperfiled.