
BIOGRAPHY
Elias Messinas is an architect and consultant
in environmental projects. He has been involved in environmental research,
studies, and projects since 1995. He an alumnus of Athens College of Greece
(class of 1983), holds a Masters Degree from Yale School of Architecture,
a B.Des. with Honors in Environmental Design from Bezalel Academy of Arts
and Design (Jerusalem), a Ph.D. in Architecture and Urban Planning from the
National Technical University of Athens, he is a post-doc Research Fellow
of the Kaufman Fellowship at the Technion Institute of Technology (Haifa)
and has attended and is presently completing a M.Sc. in Environment and Development
at the National Technical University of Athens.
Elias has consulted the Municipality of Aegina in environmental planning,
including european programs for the use of biomass, energy conservation, and
sustainability in the Aegean islands. Among other projects, Elias was instrumental
in starting a household waste recycling program at the 14,000 resident island
of Aegina. The program was implemented in May 2007. Since 2008 Elias is currently
consulting the Municipality of Bnei Shimon (Negev, Israel) in a number of
project, including a 'green' campus school, the creation of an ecovillage
in the Negev desert, and the design of a visitors' center at an active landfill
site, the Municipality of Misgav (Israel), and other ecologically oriented
projects in Greece, Israel, and elsewhere.
In 2008-2009 Elias is also the Chief Architect of Goodliving,
a company to provide design, construction, and maintenance/management services
for sustainable buildings.
Elias is associated and active in environmental organizations. He is the President
of NGO HELIOS for Sustainable Development, President
of NGO ECOWEEK
which is active in Greece, Cyprus and Israel, and a founding member and board
member of the Association for Holistic Architecture and Ecological Building
(S.OL.AR.) in Greece, and teaches passive solar Architecture and ecological
buildings to students of Design and Interior Design at the Holon Institute
of Technology (HIT).
Elias specializes in ecological building, passive solar architecture and is
consulting a number of ecological construction projects in Greece, Israel
and Cyprus. His work has been published
widely,, he has published numerous articles in Greek
and English, and has been interviewed
in the radio and television, including BBC World.
In 2006 Elias' work was published in the catalogue of the Greek participation
to the 10th Biennale in Venice, and in 2009 was invited by the Royal Danish
Embassy in Greece to contribute on 'green' Architecture to the Climate
Thinkers Blog on the official Danish website for COP 15 (United Nations
Climate Change Conference in December 2009).
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