
Panos Dragonas is an architect, curator and professor of architecture and urban design at the University of Patras, Greece. In 2020, he founded Dragonas architecture studio in Athens. His design work has been published in international reviews such as l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Archi, Bauwelt and Blueprint. He has edited reviews and has published extensively on new Greek architecture, public space and the contemporary city in architecture magazines and reviews, including the AA Files, Archithese, Domus, MASContext, Monu and Stavba. From 2001 to 2013, he was consultant editor of the annual reviews Architecture in Greece and Design + Art in Greece. In 2012, he was joint commissioner and curator of ‘Made in Athens’, the Greek contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2017, he co-curated the exhibition ‘Tomorrows: Urban Fictions for Possible Futures’, which was shown in Athens and Nantes. He has also curated, alone or in collaboration, the exhibitions ‘Adhocracy [Athens]’ (2015), ‘Rethink Athens’ (2013), ‘14F/21GR: Young Architects from France and Greece’ (2012), and the ‘2nd Biennale of Young Greek Architects’ (1998). In 2016, he was a Stanley J. Seeger ’52 Visiting Research Fellow in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. His research and design activities focus on the transformation of Greek cities during the economic and social crisis and the connections between cinema, architecture and the modern city.