LECTURES
| 2011 | Keynote speaker at CP MILENIO in Granada, Spain (14/10/11) read |
| 2011 | Opening remarks at ECOWEEK 2011: Urban Communities and Green Architecture organized by ECOWEEK in Milano, Italy (12-18/9/11) |
| 2011 | Keynote speaker at "Hod Hasharon 'Green' City and Community" organized by the Munuicipality of Hod Hasharon, Hod Hasharon (6/4/11) |
| 2011 | Opening remarks at panel "Iconic Architectonic: Architecture and Visual Culture from the Middle East" organized by the Program "Crossroads" (Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Greece), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Faculty of Architecture, ECOWEEK, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art & 3rd Biennale of Thessaloniki, and NOESIS Science Center and Technology Museum, Thessaloniki (31/3/11) |
| 2011 | Opening remarks at ECOWEEK 2011: Urban Communities and Green Architecture organized by ECOWEEK in Thessaloniki (28/3-3/4/11) |
| 2010 | Αειφόρες Κοινότητες & Πράσινη Αρχιτεκτονική (Sustainable Communities & Green Architecture) Lecture at Conference "The Power of Creativity" at the Goethe Institut Thessaloniki, Greece (8/12/10) |
| 2010 | Αειφόρος Σχεδιασμός (Sustainable Design) Lecture at AKTO School of Design, Thessaloniki, Greece (8/12/10) |
| 2010 | Opening remarks at ECOWEEK 2010 in the Middle East: Green Architecture :: Community :: Sustainability organized by ECOWEEK in Israel & West Bank (25/7-1/8/10) |
| 2010 | Opening remarks at ECOWEEK 2010: Ecology+Community+Architecture organized by ECOWEEK in Athens, Greece (13-20/3/10) |
| 2009 |
Ανακύκλωση στα κτίρια και κτίρια σε συνθήκες ερήμου
(Recycling in Buildings & Building in the desert) Lecture
at the 5th Conference on Holistic Architecture and Ecological Building
(organized by S.OL.AR.)
at Serres, N. Greece (12-13/12/09)
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| 2009 | Green future - how? Greek challenges - Danish experiences - future solutions Lecture, discussion, and dialogue with the audience in English. Participants: Carsten Beck, Director of Research at Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, and Elias Messinas, architect and founder of the international environmental NGO ECOWEEK. Danish Institute at Athens in cooperation with the Danish Embassy. (23/10/09) |
| 2009 | Opening remarks at ECOWEEK 2009: Ecology+Leadership+Architecture organized by ECOWEEK in Athens (31/3-6/409) |
| 2009 | Leadership and Social Enterpreneurship in Green Buildings Lecture at the Municipal Gathering No. 7 at Menashe Municipality (19/3/09) |
| 2009 | Green Building: Design, Technology, Initiatives & Education Lecture and opening remarks at the conference 'Green Civil Engineering' at the Sami Shamoon College co-organized by ECOWEEK in Beer Sheva (Israel) (23/2/09) |
| 2009 | Introduction to speaker Khee Po Lam at the Jerusalem Seminar organized by the Rothchild Foundation, at HaUma Congress Center, Jerusalem (26/1/09) |
| 2008 | Sustainable Buildilngs: Passive Solar Design & Ecological Building Panel lecture & Discussion at the CEO & CSR Conference at Hilton, Athens, organized by Eurocharity - participated also: Alexandros Tombazis (Meletitiki, Architect), Nikos Vitatzakis (Sol Energy) and George Kazatzopoulos (More than Green) - moderator Michael Spanos (Eurocharity) (28/5/08) |
| 2008 | Opening remarks at ECOWEEK 2008: Ecology+Environment+Architecture organized by ECOWEEK and the AIA Continental Europe in Athens (10-14/4/08) |
| 2008 | Πρωτοβουλίες για επεμβάσεις ενεργειακή απόδοσης σε κατοικίες στην Ελλάδα και το εξωτερικό (Energy conserving initiative in residential buildings in Greece and abroad) Lecture at ECOTEC 08 trade show, EXPO Athens, Anthousa Athens (25/5/08) |
| 2008 | Η ανακύκλωση στα κτίρια (Recycling on the Buildling Site) Lecture at the ECOWEEK Conference on Ecological Building at Larnaka, organized by ECOWEEK, the Municipality of Larnaka and MKC City College (17/5/08) |
| 2008 | Introduction of the screening of 'An Inconvenient Truth' at the Athens Summit 2008, at Athens Hilton, Athens (6/5/08) |
| 2007 | Ανακύκλωση για κτίρια (Recycling for Buildings) Lecture at the STUDENT FESTIVAL (Φεστιβάλ Φοίτηση) seminar on Ecological Building organized by S.OL.AR. at Congress Center in Peristeri (11/12/07) |
| 2007 | Ανακύκλωση για κτίρια (Recycling for Buildings) Lecture at the ECOFESTIVAL trade show seminar on Ecological Building organized by S.OL.AR. at HELEXPO in Athens (9/11/07) |
| 2007 | Remarks at Press Conference for Al Gore's lecture in Athens at the Athens Concert Hall, organized by Megaron Plus and ECOWEEK (13/6/07) |
| 2006 | Ανακύκλωση για κτίρια (Recycling for Buildings) Lecture at the the Conference on Holistic Architecture and Ecological Building (organized by S.OL.AR.) in Hrakleio, Crete, Greece (3/6/06) |
| 2006 | Ανακύκλωση και στα κτίρια (Recycling also for Buildings) Lecture at the the Conference on Holistic Architecture and Ecological Building (organized by S.OL.AR.) in Karditsa, Greece (17/3/06) |
| 2007 | Opening remarks at Robert Swan's lecture in Athens at the Benaki Museum, organized by ECOWEEK and the British Council (23/4/07) |
| 2006 | Opening remarks at ECOWEEK 2006 organized by ECOWEEK in Aegina (9-17/6/06) |
| 2005 | Recycling of Building Materials Lecture at the Conference on Holistic Architecture and Ecological Building (organized by S.OL.AR.) in Kefalonia, Greece (4/11/05) |
| 2005 | Opening remarks at ECOWEEK 2005 organized by ECOWEEK in Aegina (1-8/10/05) |
| 2005 | Opening remarks at ECOLOGICAL BUILDING SEMINAR organized by Association of Active Citizens of Aegina, in Aegina (11/6/05) |
| 2004 | Opening remarks at the planting ceremony and the inauguration of park 'Athens 2004' at Zur Moshe in Israel, a project initiated by the undersigned and Moshav Zur Moshe (6/2/04 & 9/7/04) |
| 2002 | Opening remarks at opening of exhibition "Images from Greece" at the Jerusalem Theater, Jerusalem (22/12/02) |
| 2002 | The Jewish Community and Synagogues
of Athens International Conference on Architecture and Culture Mishkenot Shaananim and Jerusalem Foundation, Jerusalem (5/6/02) |
| 2001 | The Jewish Heritage of Greece
Read more University of Rhode Island Cherry Auditorium of the Kirk Center for Advanced Technology |
| 2000 | The transition of Greek synagogues
from the Ottoman to the European models: the example of Salonika MJSA Annual Conference East Lansing, MI (18/9/00) |
| 2000 | Saving the Jewish heritage of Greece Holocaust Memorial Center West Bloomfield, MI (18/9/00) |
| 1999 | The synagogues of Salonika: Destruction
& Reconstruction The Holocause in Greece Series (USHMM) read more Catholic University Architecture School Washington, DC (4/10/99) |
| 1999 | The synagogue and Jewish quarter
of Veroia World Bank Symposium on Sacred Places Washington, DC (6/5/99) |
| 1999 | The conservation program of the
synagogue of Veroia International Conference on Jewish Heritage Paris, France (27/1/99) |
| 1998 | Late synagogues of Greece: origins
and architecture Yale Judaic Studies Program Yale University, New Haven, CT (23/2/98) |
| 1998 | Late synagogues of Greece: the location
of the bimah Princeton Program in Hellenic Studies Princeton, NJ (18/2/98) |
| 1997 | The Synagogues of Greece: origins
and architecture Center for Jewish Art Hebrew University, Jerusalem (9/8/97) |
| 1996 | Greek Synagogues : survey and preservation ICOMOS-Israel Jerusalem (11/12/96) |
| 1995 | Opening remarks at opening of exhibition "Travel Sketchbooks" at the Athens College Theater, Athens (1/2/95) |
| 1995 | Greek Synagogues: survey and preservation
- the synagogue of Veroia ICOMOS- Greece Athens - in collaboratioin with Liza Bensasson |
| 1993 | Introduction to speaker Prof. Manolis Korres Columbia University, New York, organized by the undersigned, Onassis Foundation, and Columbia University (4/3/93) |
| 1990 | Opening remarks at opening of exhibition "Travel Sketchbooks" at the Yale Art & Architecture Building, New Haven, CT (8/8/90) |
