‘The houses we build are the 3D portraits of their residents’

If you believe that a residence is a mirror of the Self and its renovation an excellent opportunity for you to creatively re-evaluate how you would truly like to live, then we invite you to join our ‘Self-reflection and residence’ program. Myrto Kiourtis, an architect and PhD of the NTUA specializing in residential psychology, organises sessions that aim at exploring your inner and subconscious desires concerning habitation, which will then lead to the custom design of your space.

Myrto Kiourtis designs houses by associating architecture and social anthropology, cultural history, and psychoanalysis. She implements a novel methodology that she has developed as part of her PhD. Through personal in-depth sessions with each resident, she discovers their value system, their deeper and sometimes subconscious desires, and their own unique way of living. The above leads to the final design of their new residence.

Myrto Kiourtis holds a master’s degree in advanced architectural design from Columbia University, New York, with a Fulbright scholarship, and a PhD from the School of Architecture of the N.T.U.A with an Onassis Foundation scholarship. She is a professor at the Architecture Faculty, University of Patras and at the master’s department at the N.T.U.A. School of Architecture. Her work has received many awards in national and European competitions and has been presented in prestigious universities in Greece and abroad. Her work has also been published in architecture magazines and featured in the daily press, radio and TV. Recently, she led a team of 18 architects, landscape architects, anthropologists and artists, who presented new ways to reoccupy typical Athenian apartments. The results were presented at the Onassis Cultural Center and were published in the book ‘Epanakatoikisis’ by Potamos editions.

The resident, sitting in the microcosm that he has completely defined himself — like a god-creator of his own universe — knows exactly who he is and how he contributes, by the example of his daily life, in building human civilization.