Pavlos Chatziangelides designs some of the most wildly exciting and scintillating homes of the current age. Each one is a superb work of abstract art, a riveting shell or construct, deeply connected to its direct environment that has a language and identity all of its own.
The young Greek architect was born in 1977 and studied civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. as well as architecture and engineering at the University of Thessaly. He also secured an MA at Middlesex University in the UK.
Chatziangelides set up Studio 314, which is named for the principle of Pi, in 2004. Since them he has garnered many awards for his work, no least the EU MIes Van Der Rohe prize.
His buildings are marked by a wonderful and dynamic interplay between a muscular masculinity and a very sensuous femininity. They are at once extremely imposing and yet rapturously beautiful and expressive,
Chatziangelides is extremely sensitive to how a building emanates from the topography of its site. The building literally 'grows' out of the site and the characteristic shell is a kind of 'conversation' betwixt site and structure.
