This week we travel to Athens, Greece, to meet Konstantinos Pantazis, co-founder of Point Supreme, alongside Marianna Rentzou.
They claim that “architects nowadays have forgotten their larger social role” as it is not just about buildings but the city as a whole. And yet, the city is not singular. “Cities are made out of all of us, our different beliefs and desires.”
Their projects reflect this multiplicity and unfold as open systems.“Every project is like a sample of spaces, conditions, situations.” Not bound by scale. In fact, “we are not interested in any particular scale at all”, they say. But by the possibility of combining fragments, references, and realities. “We try to bring as much ideas, references and situations as possible.”
This openness is also a way of testing clarity. “We want our proposals to be understood by our grandmothers.”
This also extends to how they represent architecture. Their images are constructed worlds: collages of many painters, many photographs, many objects. “It’s not about aesthetics,” they insist. “It’s about allowing the viewer to be free from any particular association.”
It is not about controlling meaning, but about constructing frameworks where meaning can emerge. A strategy not to explain too much but to open things up.
Perhaps, in a time that struggles to imagine the future, their work doesn’t offer a single vision but something more collective: a space where many can emerge.
Guest: Konstantinos Pantazis (Athens, Greece)
Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)
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