Panos Tzonos

Architect, Dipl.Ing.Arch., Grad.Dipl.AA, Dr Arch
Emeritus Professor of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessalonik, Greece.

Curriculum Vitae


Born in Thessaloniki, 1940. Studied Architecture at the T.U. Karlsruhe with Professor E. Eiermann, he obtained his MA from the A. A. School of Architecture, London, and his Doctorate from the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 1974 he has been teaching Architectural Design- since 1977 as a full professor- at the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has served twice as Head of the above School of Architecture. Since 2002, he has been chief coordinator of the module “Architectural Management and Design of Exhibitions, Museums, Archaeological Sites, Monuments and Heritage Complexes” at the Interuniversity Postgraduate-Postmaster Programme in Museology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and University of Western Macedonia.

Since 1966 he has been a partner at the architectural office of "P.Tzonos, G. Heupel, X. Heupel", based in Thessaloniki and Athens, which has participated in numerous architectural competitions, has won numerous awards and prizes, and has been commissioned to design many private and public buildings in Greece. Over the last twenty five years he has worked mostly on commissions related to buildings for culture, such as

  • the interior design for the “Dimitris Mitropoulos” Hall of Music and the Foyers of the “Megaron” Concert Hall in Athens,
  • the architectural design of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall,
  • the interior design and presentation of the permanent collection at the National Gallery in Athens, and the presentation in its temporary exhibition premises of the blockbuster exhibition “From Theotocopoulos to Cezanne” in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institute and the Metropolitan Museum,
  • the preservation and conversion of a listed building into the National Sculpture Gallery, in Athens along with the exhibition of its permanent collection, as well as the presentation of the Henry Moore Exhibition and the Christos Kapralos Retrospective at the same gallery,
  • the conversion of an old textile factory in Thessaloniki (YFANET) into a Museum for Contemporary Art,
  • the conversion of a listed tobacco silo into the Xanthi Tobacco Museum, Thrace,
  • the planning, design and presentation of the Hellenistic and Roman Archaeological Sites of Pella in Northern Greece,
  • the architectural design of the Centre for the Promotion of Sciences and Technology and Technical Museum (NOESIS), in Thessaloniki,
  • the exhibition design of the Ecclesiastical Museum of the Holy Metropolis of Alexandroupolis, Thrace,
  • the exhibition design of the Ecclesiastical Museum of the Holy Metropolis of Thessaloniki, (reviewed in Museum Practice -Winter 2007 -Issue 40),
  • the exhibition design of the Velvendo Ethnographic Museum, Western Macedonia,
  • the exhibition design of the Wine Museum at Gerovassiliou Estate Vineyard at Epanomi, Thessaloniki,
  • the architectural design of the Museum of the Municipal Library in Kozani, Western Macedonia,
  • the conversion and interior design, including the exhibition spaces, of the V.&M. Theocharakis Visual Arts and Music Foundation in Athens,
  • the design for the inclusion of Christos Kapralos' frieze on "The Battle of Pindos" within the Peristylion of the building of the Hellenic Parliament as well as
  • the design of a series of temporary exhibitions at the National Gallery in Athens (see www.meaamuse.gr).

He has written several books on the theory of architecture, architectural programming and design, and museum architecture, including Organising an Architectural Design Project, (1982), The Typology of Residential Buildings (1983), Four Value Systems in the Theory of Contemporary Architecture (1985), Sunlight in Architectural Design (1985), Architectural Design: What Could it Be? (1996), Architectural Design and Science (2001), The Iliad, Our World (2005), Museum and Modernity (2007), An Artlover’s Notes On Contemporary Art (2007), Museum and Museum Exhibition (2013), most of which are used in Greek universities as reference books.

He was head of the project “Towards a Holistic Museological Approach to Material Culture”, which was part of the EU-funded Research Programme PYTHAGORAS I. He has served as member of the first academic committee for the newly-founded School of Technology in Crete, and was vice-president at the Board of the Property Development and Management Company, S.A. for the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

He has been member of scientific and organizing committees for symposia concerning theoretical and applied issues on museums and museology, the most recent one being that on the New Acropolis Museum (see P. Tzonos, Acropolis Museum: Ideology, Museology, Architecture in www.blod.gr).



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