mplusm - Filippidis Memos, Nikoloutsou Μarita
Memos Filippidis (1967, Athens) is an architect (diploma of Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens, Master in Architecture Yale University). Μarita Nikoloutsou (1969, Athens) is an architect (diploma of architecture from the National Technical University of Athens). They established their architectural office Mplusm in 2001. Their architectural projects have been published in Wallpaper, Interni, Surface, A10, D+A Magazine, Archis, Blueprint and Stauba magazines as well as in the book “Greek Architecture Now” (Studio Art Bookshop, 2006) by Karin Skousboll. M. Filippidis has been contributing articles on architecture and design for the Greek newspaper To Vima, was a member of the editorial board of the Vima Ideon, an interdisciplinary journal of literature, the humanities, social studies, architecture and cultural theory and has been curating architectural exhibitions. Co-organizer of the architectural lectures of the cultural initiative entitled “Megaron Plus” at the Athens Megaron, a series that has already included lectures by Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Steven Holl, Roman Delugan, Thom Mayne, Kengo Kuma, SANAA, Massimiliano Fuksas, Alberto Campo Baeza, Wolf Prix, Gwenael Nicolas and Eduardo Souto de Moura. Curator of the international architectural exhibition “Big Brother: Architecture and Surveillance” at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2002). Curator of the architectural exhibition “+-40: Athens Now” (2003) on the work of 22 leading Greek architects, an exhibition held at RIBA, London. Curator of the architectural exhibition “Invisible Hotel” (www.invisiblehotel.com, Athens, Salonica, New York, 2005-2006). Curator for exhibition "The Education of an Architect" (2006, Gallery Kappatos, Athens). In 2006 he was the guest curator, invited by chief curators Rena Sakellaridou and Morfo Papanikolaou, for the first national participation of Cyprus entitled “Porous Borders” (www.porousborders.org) for the 10th Architectural Biennale in Venice.
