Dr. ELIAS MESSINAS
Architect, Urban Planner and Social Entrepreneur, creator of ECOWEEK
Elias Messinas is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, Bezalel
Academy, and holds a Ph.D. from the National Technical University of Athens
(NTUA) and an M.Sc. on Environment and Development at NTUA. Elias has conducted
research at the Ben Gurion University in the Negev on passive-solar retrofits.
Elias is an expert in urban planning and public participation management
in the Ginot Hayir Community Council in the City of Jerusalem. Elias teaches,
as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer, sustainable design at the Holon Institute
of Technology and at Patras University School of Architecture, as Adjunct
Assistant Professor. Elias leads
workshops at universities around the world. He is the author of numerous
articles, catalogues, three books on historic architecture, and the
co-editor of the ECOWEEK The
Book#1 50 Voices for Sustainability and ECOWEEK The
Book#2 15 Paths to Sustainability: from Innovation to Social Design
and a number of ECOWEEK catalogues with sustainable design projects
in 17 countries. Elias has lectured
widely and has exhibited
his work, research and travel
sketchbooks in Europe, Israel, and the US. Elias is the creator of ECOWEEK
with an international outreach to 17 countries.
DISTINCTIONS
2024 HIT - Ministry of Regional Cooperation. Approved international
workshop grant.
2024 CHNT Icomos Conference on Cultural Heritage and Technology in Vienna,
Austria. Best Paper Award.
2024 HIT. Academic Excellence Award.
2023 SINCERE EU Horizon program. Approved program Consortium Member.
2022 Business Awards Greece. Jury Member.
2022 Green Awards Greece. Jury Member.
2021 Bussiness Awards Greece. Jury Member.
2021 Landscape Awards Greece. Jury Member.
2020 Green Awards Greece. Jury Member.
2020 Nomination for the prestigious Tallberg/Eliasson Global Leadership
Prize 2020. The prize is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation
2020 Interior Design Prize 2020 for the renovation of the extension
of the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece
2018 Nomination for the Europa Nostra European Prize for the restoration
of the historic synagogue of Thessaloniki, Greece
2016-2018 Board Member of G & A Mamidakis Foundation
2014-2017 Member to Professional Board of Medivercities
2009 Invitation to the COP 15 peripheral events by the Danish Embassy
in Athens, Greece
2008 Fellow to the Ford Motor Company and 92Y Street International Fellowship
for Community Leadership
2006 Participation in the Venice Bienalle catalogue 'The Dispersed
Urbanity of the Aegean Archipelago' with house in Aegina, Greece
PARTNERS and/or TEAM MEMBERS
KARD Architects, Greece - Dimitris Raidis and Alexandros Kouloukouris
| NCSR Democritus, Greece | ACCIONA, Spain | NETHOOD, Switzerland | University
of Malta | Frederick University, Cyprus | Democritus University, Greece
| Ben Gurion University, Israel | Kostas Hatziantoniou, Engineer | Ishai
Hanoun, Landscape Design, Israel | Aris Liakopoulos, Alias Architects, Greece
| Petros Koufopoulos, Architect, Mariantheos-Koufopoulos Architects, Greece
| GREENAPP, Israel | Galia Hanoch-Roe, Landscape Architect, Israel | Antonis
Gavalas, Architect, Greece | Thomas Doxiadis (doxiadis+) Architect and Landscape
Architect, Greece | Heidi Arad, Architect, Israel | Natalia Pantelidou,
Landscape Architect, Greece | Dan Reuveni, Architect, Israel | Dan Price,
Architect, Israel | Evangelia Chrysikou (Syn-Thesis), Greece
