Draft:Stefanos Sinos
Stefanos Sinos (Greek: Στέφανος Σίνος) was a Greek architect and professor at the National Technical University of Athens.
Early life and education[edit]
Sinos was born in Athens. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology graduating in 1962.[1]
Career[edit]
From 1963 he served as a curator at the Chair of the History of Architecture at the Karlsruhe University of Technology, he was awarded a doctorate in engineering at the same university in 1967 and an assistant professor of the History and Theory of Architecture in 1970. He was a professor of Architectural Morphology and Rhythmology at the National Technical University of Athens from 1972. until 1985. From 1984 he was a member of the Working Group for the Restoration of the Monuments of Mystras and then he assumed the chairmanship of the Commission for the Restoration of Mystras Monuments of the Ministry of Culture, a position he holds until today.[1]
In the 1970's he supervised a program of the National Technical University, where students went to Cypriot villages to record and study the traditional architecture, among the villages recorded where Kakopetria, Fikardou, Pano Lefkara and Omodos.[2]
Sinos also contributed to the study of Byzantine architecture in Greece, he was the supervisor of the "Committee for the Restoration of Mystras Monuments".[3]
Publications[edit]
- Σίνος, Σ. (1976). Αναδρομή στη Λαϊκή Αρχιτεκτονική της Κύπρου. Αθήνα: Ι. Μακρής Α. Ε.
- Sinos, S. (1980). The folk architecture and art of Cyprus. Boca Raton (United States): CRC Press, Inc.
- Karageorghis V. and Sinos, S. (1984). The folk architecture and art of Cyprus, Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 354-374.
- Sinos, S. (1984). The restoration of rural architectural monuments in Cyprus. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 355–374.
- Sinos S. (1988). The Patsalos House at Lefkara, The Rescue of a Traditional Building and the Planning of a Museum. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus. (Part 2): 265-273.
- Sinos, S. (1990). The Temple of Apollo Hylates at Kourion and the Restoration of Its South - West Corner. Athens: Α.G. Leventis Foundation.
- Σίνος, Σ. (2009). Τα Μνημεία του Μυστρά: Το έργο της Επιτροπής Αναστήλωσης Μνημείων Μυστρά - The Monuments of Mystras: The work of the Communittee for the Restoration of the Monuments of Mystras. Αθήνα: Ταμείο Διαχείρισης Πιστώσεων για την Εκτέλεση Αρχαιολογικών Έργων.
- Σίνος, Σ. (2013). Η αρχιτεκτονική του καθολικού της Μονής της Παντάνασσας του Μυστρά. Αθήνα: Πατάκης.
- Sinos, S. (2021). The Late Byzantine Palace of Mystras and its Restoration. Kapon Editions, Athens UNESCO, Archaeological Site of Mystras.
External links[edit]
- A 1978 documentary on the folk architecture of Lefkara village, digitised by CyBC.
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Σίνος, Στέφανος". Εκδόσεις Πατάκη.
- ^ Egoumenidou, Frosso (1993). "The Cyprus Department of Antiquities and the Protection of Monuments of the Recent Past". International Journal of Cultural Property. 2 (1): 163–170. doi:10.1017/S0940739193000190. ISSN 0940-7391.
- ^ Panagiotidis, V.; Zacharias, N. (2022-02-05). "DIGITAL MYSTRAS: AN APPROACH TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING THE USE OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SPACE". Scientific Culture. doi:10.5281/ZENODO.6640278.