XYZ Outlet #15: Andreas Angelidakis | The Building that went to the Mountain (Demo of a study for a dying building)- A talk | Tuesday July 12th from 20:00 to 21:00 strictly | Perdika 8 & Achileos, Metaxourgeio 
On Tuesday July 12th we are presenting the talk The Building that went to the Mountain (Demo of a study for a dying building) about the Casino Mont Parnes (located on Mount Parnitha, 30km north of Athens) , based on an idea, and organised by architect Andreas Angelidakis. The talk will include the artist Kostis Velonis and the architects Agapi Proimou, Memos Phillipides, Giorgos Tzirtzilakis and Aristide Antonas.
About the talk The Building that went to the Mountain (Demo of a study for a dying building)
A wounded building is lying on a mountain, overlooking a city slowly sinking in crisis. A network of pipes, cables and work-site units are choking the building, like machines trying to keep it alive. Or maybe the opposite is happening – maybe this network is sucking the last breath of life from the cabled carcass. If you look closely you can see that the cables do not stop at the machines surrounding the building; they extend down the side of the mountain, reaching down all the way to the city.
The Mont Parnes hotel, designed by the architect Pavlos Mylonas (1915 – 2005), is a prime example of Greek Modernism.
In ‘70s Athens, when you said “I'm going to the Mountain” it meant that you were going to gamble at the Casino of Mont Parnes. In order to get in the Casino, it was enough for you to wear a tie and to have with you a tax return form proving your wealth. Today, after a series of failed renovations and partially destroyed from fire and time, the Casino is under a peculiar temporary demolition state, aiming to replace the building with a new casino, one which will “bring back to life the spirit of post-war modernism”. The talk will touch upon issues such as the operation of the Casino in a time of bankruptcy, its upcoming “Chinese style” reconstruction ,and also the possibility that works of the Modern Movement in architecture are overrated.
Related links
http://andreasangelidakis.blogspot.com/2011/04/networked-ruin-of-mont-parnes.html
http://andreasangelidakis.blogspot.com/2010/04/adbusted.html
http://www.sansimera.gr/articles/401
http://www.ered.gr/gr/articlesInside.php?art=15640
http://www.arxaiologia.gr/site/content.php?artid=7882
About Andreas Angelidakis
Andreas Angelidakis is an architect who investigates the idea of Mountains, Clouds and Websites as much as buildings and trees and people's behaviour. He maintains an experimental practice in Athens, Greece, a studio involved in building, designing and speculating the contemporary ecosystem of screens and landscapes. He usually operates at the intersection of binary systems: Art and Architecture, Virtual and Real, Building and Nature, Ruin and Construction. The medium Angelidakis uses is habitation: of buildings, clouds, spaces, furniture, videos, online communities or exhibition spaces (Athens Biennial, MUSAC, Fargfabriken), while writing, blogging and teaching. In 2009 he designed the 2nd Athens Biennale, HEAVEN.
www.angelidakis.com
www.andreasangelidakis.blogspot.com
http://andreasangelidakis.tumblr.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/@aangelidakis
XYZ Outlet #15: Andreas Angelidakis//The Building that went to the Mountain (Demo of a study for a dying building)- A talk
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