New Appointment for Bartlett Associate Professor Stelios Giamarelos at Crete University Press

Crete University Press was founded in 1984 and has published over 600 academic titles across the fields of the arts, humanities and science. Dr Giamarelos was appointed to the post of series editor in February, leading their ‘Architecture’ series.

He was offered the post after working with them to produce and edit Architectural Poetics: 1959-2019 (Heraklion: Crete University Press, 2023), an award-winning 600-page collection of the late Greek architect Suzana Antonakaki's (1935–2020) unpublished lectures and talks. In his 50-page introduction to the book, Dr Giamarelos underscored Antonakaki’s contribution to architectural discourse as a crucial ‘female voice of critical regionalism’.

The scope of Dr Giamarelos’ new role includes pursuing translations of significant publications that expand and diversify architectural discourse in Greece, including important works by Greek scholars that are currently unavailable in Greek. These translated works cover interdisciplinary approaches to climate change, landscape architecture, research-led design, and architectural education in the Mediterranean basin. His work also includes seeking out original scholarship and unpublished non-Anglophone texts on architecture by currently overlooked practising Mediterranean architects.

Dr Stylianos (Stelios) Giamarelos is an architect, historian and theorist, with a multi-disciplinary background in architecture engineering, architectural history and theory, and history and philosophy of science and technology. He is Associate Professor in Architecture at The Bartlett, coordinating the Architecture and Urban History & Theory and Architectural Design MPhil/PhD programmes, as well as modules on Architecture MSci (ARB Part 1 and 2) and Architecture BSc (ARB/RIBA Part 1). 

He is the author of Resisting Postmodern Architecture: Critical Regionalism before Globalisation (London: UCL Press, 2022; A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books' 'Favourite Book of 2023'); editor of Suzana Antonakaki, Architectural Poetics: Texts 1959-2019 (Heraklion: Crete University Press, 2023; Hartis magazine 'Essay Award 2023’); co-editor of Resilience in Architectural History (Special Collection of Architectural Histories, 2019) and ATHENS by SOUND (Athens: futura, 2008); and co-author of 2 oral histories of architectural education in Greece (The Postmodern in Architecture (Athens: Nefeli, 2018) and Uncharted Currents (Athens: Melani, 2014)).

More information

• Find out more about Crete University Press
• Visit gta-Verlag’s website
• Visit Dr Stelios Giamarelos’ UCL profile
• Find out more about The Bartlett’s doctoral programmes

Image: Suzana and Dimitris Antonakakis, Lyttos Hotel in Anissaras-Hersonissos, Heraklion, Crete (1977). Collaborating architect: Alekos Polychroniadis. Photography: Alekos Polychroniadis. Courtesy: Suzana and Dimitris Antonakakis' private archive.