Tuesday, June 5, 2007

ΒΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΚΟ

Alexandros Phaidon Lagopoulos
Professor of Urban Planning

Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Development
School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Tel. (+30) 2310-995571, 995484
Fax (+30) 2310-995572
E-mail: phaidon@arch.auth.gr

Home address: Ammolianis 7, 546 38 Thessaloniki, Greece
Tel. (+30) 2310-913598

Date of birth: 14 Jan 1939
Citizen of Greece

Academic degrees and diplomas
1956 Secondary school diploma, Experimental School of the University of Athens. Graduated second in class.
1961 Architect-Engineer, National Technical University of Athens. Graduated second in class
1969 Postgraduate studies in Urban Planning, Centre de Recherche d’Urbanisme, Paris
1969 Studies in Urban Geography, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
1970 Doctorat de 3ème Cycle in Social Anthropology, Sorbonne
1970 Dr. Architect-Engineer (Urban Planning History), National Technical University of Athens
1973 Post-doctoral academic title (‘Habilitation’) in Urban and Regional Planning, National Technical University of Athens
2004 Honorary Doctorate in Semiotics, New Bulgarian University, Sofia

Academic career
1962-66 Assistant, Chair of Urban Planning, National Technical University of Athens
1966-74 Lecturer (Docent), National Technical University of Athens
1964-67, 1970-72 Researcher, Laboratory of Urban Research, National Technical University of Athens
1974-78 Professor, Chair B of Urban Planning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
1978- Professor with tenure

Visiting research and teaching positions abroad
1987 Research Associate, Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
1987-88 Visiting Scholar, Department of Urban Planning, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, California
1988 Visiting Professor of Geography, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
1995 Visiting Scholar, Department of Social and Economic Geography, University of Uppsala, Sweden

Scholarships and prizes
1956-61 Greek state scholarships as undergraduate student
1964-65 prizes or mentions in national architectural competitions. Selected drawings from one of the above were published in Architektonika Themata 1, 1967.
1968-69 French state scholarship (AS.TE.F.) for postgraduate studies in France
1973 U.S. State Department and Greek government grant for participation in the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies (session: ecology)
1973 U.S. State Department grant for study visit to USA
1997 Prize in urban design competition (consultant)


Publications
Dissertations
1970 Η επιρροή των κοσμικών αντιλήψεων επί της παραδοσιακής μεσογειακής και ινδοευρωπαϊκής πολεοδομίας (The Influence of Cosmological Conceptions on Traditional Mediterranean and Indoeuropean Town Planning). Diss. National Technical University of Athens. Privately printed. 508 pp.
1970 “L’ influence des conceptions cosmiques sur l’ urbanisme africain traditionnel,” Doctorat de 3ème Cycle, Sorbonne (unpublished). 326 pp.
1973 Δομική πολεοδομία: ο οικισμός ως σύστημα (Structural Urbanism: The Settlement as System). Postdoctoral dissertation, National Technical University of Athens. Published Athens: Technical Chamber of Greece. 177 pp.

Books
1977 Εγχειρίδιο πολεοδομίας (Handbook of Urban Planning): Μέρος Α΄, Θεωρία πολεοδομίας (πολεολογία) (Part A, Theory of Urban Planning: Urbanology), 138 pp., and Μέρος Β΄, Πολεοδομική επέμβαση (προγραμματισμός και σχεδιασμός), τόμ. I (Part B, Urban Intervention: Planning and Design), vol. I, 83 pp. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University. Academic textbooks.
1977 Έρευνα πολεοδομικών προτύπων (Research on Urban Standards): 6. Κρατική λειτουργία (The Administrative Function), 80 pp., 7. Γραφεία (Offices), 106 pp., 7a. Οικονομική και κρατική λειτουργία: Μεθοδολογία (Economic and State Functions: Methodology, with I. Lagopoulou), 61 pp., and 13. Βιομηχανία (Industry), 168 pp. Athens: Laboratory of Urban Research. Mimeographed.
1979 Θεσσαλονίκη: Πολεοδομική διερεύνηση, κριτική ρυθμιστικών προτάσεων και προοπτικές εξέλιξης της πόλης (Thessaloniki: Urban Research Study, Criticism of Planning Proposals and Development Perspectives of the City). With E. Andrikopoulou and G. Kafkalas. Thessaloniki: Paratiritis. 136 pp.
1981 Εγχειρίδιο πολεοδομίας (Handbook of Urban Planning). Μέρος Β, Πολεοδομική επέμβαση, τόμος II, Σχεδιασμός: Χωρο-λειτουργικός και κελυφών (Part B, Urban Intervention, vol. II, Design of Functions and Shells), 124 pp. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University. Academic textbook.
1992 Meaning and Geography: The Social Conception of the Region in Northern Greece. With Κ. Boklund-Lagopoulou. Berlin, etc. : Mouton de Gruyter. 453 pp.
1995 Urbanisme et sémiotique dans les sociétés pré-industrielles. Paris: Anthropos. 385 pp.
2003 Ο ουρανός πάνω στη γη: τελετουργίες καθαγίασης του ελληνικού παραδοσιακού οικισμού και προέλευσή τους (Heaven on Earth: Sacralisation Rituals of the Traditional Greek Settlement and their Origins). Athens: Odysseas. 303 pp.
––– Επιστημολογίες του νοήματος, δομισμός και σημειωτική (Epistemologies of Meaning, Structuralism and Semiotics). Thessaloniki: Paratiritis (to appear).

Monographs
1966 The Symbolism of the Pyramid of Cheops. Athens: Privately printed.
1969 L’orientation des monuments des cultures de mentalité archaïque, vol. Ι. Athens : I. N. Zacharopoulos.
1985 Mode de production asiatique et modèles sémiotiques urbains: Analyse socio-sémiotique d’agglomérations antiques du Moyen-Orient. Semiotica 53, 1/3: 1-129.
1988 Structure sociale globale et structure urbaine en Athènes classique: vers une urbanologie fonctionelle. Scientific Yearbook of the Faculty of Engineering, School of Architecture 11: 371-431.

Edited volumes and special journal issues
1986 The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics. Co-edited, with introductions, with Μ. Gottdiener. New York: Columbia University Press.
1986 Η δυναμική των σημείων: πεδία και μέθοδοι μιας κοινωνιο-σημειωτικής (The Dynamics of Signs: Fields and Methods of Socio-Semiotics). Proceedings of the 2nd National Congress of the Hellenic Semiotic Society. Co-edited, with introduction, with P. Martinidis, K. Boklund-Lagopoulou and K. V. Spyridonidis. Thessaloniki: Paratiritis.
1986 Semiotics and History – Semiotica 59 (3/4). Guest editor, with introduction, with K. Boklund-Lagopoulou.
1996 Άνθρωπος ο σημαίνων (Man the Signifying), 2 Vols. Proceedings of the 4th National Congress of the Hellenic Semiotic Society. Co-edited with K. Boklund-Lagopoulou, V. Tentokali and K. Tsoukala. Topics in Semiology and Culture. Thessaloniki: Paratiritis.
1996 Semiotics in Greece – S: European Journal for Semiotic Studies 8 (4). Co-edited, with introduction, with K. Boklund-Lagopoulou.
1997 Four issues of the journal Αρχαιολογία (Archaeologia) on the Greek city. With introductions.
1997 Ένας Έλληνας στη χαμένη Αφρική: το ημερολόγιο ενός εξερευνητή (A Greek in Lost Africa: The Diary of an Explorer). Co-edited, with introductions, with M. Petronoti and M.-G. Lily Stylianoudi. Thessaloniki: Paratiritis.
1997 Single European Market and Regional Development in East Macedonia and Thrace. Report on a Research Project of the Universities of Münster and Thessaloniki. Co-edited with C. Lienau. Berichte aus dem Arbeitsgebiet Entwicklungsforschung 28. Münster: Institut für Geographie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Limited circulation.
1998 The Man and the City: Spaces, Forms, Meanings (Proceedings of the Congress of the International Association for the Semiotics of Space, St. Petersburg 1995). Associate editor with A. Barabanov, main editor P. Pellegrino. With introductions. St. Petersburg, etc.: Architecton.
1998 Ιστορική γεωγραφία: δρόμοι και κόμβοι της Βαλκανικής από την αρχαιότητα στην ενιαία Ευρώπη (Historical Geography: Roads and Crossroads of the Balkans from Antiquity to the European Union). Proceedings of the Thessaloniki International Congress on Historical Geography. With introduction. Co-edited with E. P. Dimitriadis and G. Tsotsos. Thessaloniki: Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe 1997.
2002 Επανασχεδιασμός υποβαθμισμένων και κατεστραμμένων περιοχών της Ευρώπης (Reconstruction of Declining and Destroyed Areas of Europe). Proceedings of an international symposium, Thessaloniki. Co-edited with E. P. Dimitriadis and Ch. Th. Kousidonis. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press.
2002 Semiotics. 4 vols. Co-edited, with introduction, with M. Gottdiener and K. Boklund-Lagopoulou. Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods. London, etc: Sage Publications.
––– H ιστορία της ελληνικής πόλης (The History of the Greek City). Athens: Ermis (to appear).

Articles in journals
1971 Rank-size and primate distribution in Greece. Ekistics 32 (192): 380-386.
1972 Semeiological analysis of the traditional African settlement. Ekistics 33 (195): 142-148.
1976 L’orientation des monuments des cultures de mentalité archaïque, II. With S. Klimopoulos. Scientific Yearbook of the Faculty of Engineering, School of Architecture 7. Published by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
1977 L’image mentale de l’agglomération. Communications 27: 55-78. Translation of the second part of Structural Urbanism, 1973.
1977 Sémiotique picturale: Analyse d’une mosaïque byzantine. With A. Ioannidis. Semiotica 21 (1/2) : 75-109. First section reprinted as ‘Principes et modèles de la sémiotique picturale’ in Kodikas 3 : 123-127, 1977.
1978 Analyse sémiotique de l’agglomération européenne précapitaliste. Semiotica 23 (1/2): 99-164.
1981 Salonico. With E. Dimitriadis and D. Fatouros. Hinterland 4 (19-20): 32-37.
1981 Το διοικητικό και νομικό πλαίσιο του συστήματος φυσικού προγραμματισμού στην Ελλάδα (The administrative and legal institutional framework for physical planning in Greece). Πόλη και Περιφέρεια / City and Region 1: 47-66.
1982 Μία ιστορικο-υλιστική κριτική των μοντέλων προγραμματισμού για το αστικό και περιφερειακό χώρο (An historical materialist critique of the planning models for urban and regional space). Πόλη και Περιφέρεια / City and Region 4-5: 89-92.
1982 Ανασκόπηση της σημειωτικής στην Ελλάδα: Ο φορμαλισμός, η ψυχανάλυση και ο ιστορικός υλισμός (Review of semiotics in Greece: Formalism, psychoanalysis, and historical materialism). Synchrona Themata 5 (14): 64-78.
1983 Semiotic urban models and modes of production: A sociosemiotic approach. Semiotica 45 (3/4): 275-296.
1983 Σημειωτική του οικισμού (Semiotics of the settlement). Diavazo 71: 43-46.
1985 Historical materialism, semiotics and urban space: Towards a social semiotics of urban texts. Kodikas / Code 8 (3/4): 253-268.
1985 Κοινωνιολογία του χώρου (Sociology of space). Diavazo 119: 35-41.
1985 In quest of architectural theory. Semiotica 55 (1/2): 105-124.
1985 Semiotics of space and social science. Espace et Sociétés 47: 391-405.
1986 Social formation and settlement network in Greece. Geoforum 17 (1): 39-56.
1986 Semiotics and history: a Marxist approach. Semiotica 59 (3/4): 215-244.
1986 Θεωρία της αρχιτεκτονικής και αρχιτεκτονική της θεωρίας στον Eco (Theory of architecture and architecture of theory in Eco). Diavazo 145: 39-45.
1987 Against reactionary aesthetics: Aesthetics, semiotics and Marxism. Kodikas / Code 10 (1/2): 167-179.
1988 Über die Möglichkeit einer materialistischen Soziosemiotik. Zeitschrift für Semiotik 10 (1/2): 9-27.
1990 Two semiotic approaches to space. Kodikas/Code 13 (1/2): 107-118.
1990 The epistemology of space: A Marxist approach. Scientific Yearbook of the Faculty of Engineering, School of Architecture 12: 221-250. Published by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
1993 From the stick to the region: Space as a social instrument of semiosis. Semiotica 96 (1-2): 87-138.
1993 Postmodernism, geography and the social semiotics of space. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 11: 255-278.
1993 From the stick to the region: Space as a social instrument of semiosis. Semiotica 96 (1/2): 87-138. Also published in Russian.
1993 The social semiotics of sketch maps. VS: Quaderni di Studi Semiotici 65-66: 107-133.
1994 Semiotics and archeology: The fine arts and the conception of space in ancient Greece. Revista de Historia da Arte e Arqueologia 1: 10-22.
1995 Esthétique et vie pratique: La conception esthétique de la région. With K. Boklund-Lagopoulou. S: European Journal for Semiotic Studies 7 (1/2): 137-149.
1995-96 Semiotics and archaeology: The symbolic meaning of art and space in imperial Rome. Revista de Historia da Arte e Arqueologia 2: 9-17.
1997 Πόλη και κοινωνικές επιστήμες (City and social sciences). Archaeologia 62: 8-16.
1997 Ο θρησκευτικός και πολιτικός συμβολισμός της πόλης στην αρχαία Ελλάδα (The religious and political symbolism of the city in ancient Greece). Archaeologia 63: 49-55.
1997 Ο θρησκευτικός συμβολισμός της βυζαντινής πόλης (The religious symbolism of the Byzantine city). Archaeologia 64: 65-74.
1998 Spatial discourses: Origins and types. Semiotica 119 (3/4): 359-402.
1998 The semiotic and the social in Prieto’s thought. Semiotica 122 (3/4): 279-289.
1999 Subjectivism in historical geography: From geosophy to postmodernism. To Aithrion: Scientific Yearbook of the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 16: 75-97.
2000 A global model of communication. Semiotica 131 (1/2): 45-77.
2000 Τελετουργίες καθαγίασης του ελληνικού παραδοσιακού οικισμού (Rituals of consecration of the Greek traditional settlement). Ethnologia 6/7, 1998-99: 61-90. Shortened version of Ο ουρανός πάνω στη γη, 2003.
2001 The symbolism of space in Ethiopia. With M.-G. Lily Stylianoudi. Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian Studies (Wiesbaden) 4: 55-95.
––– Monumental urban space and national identity: the early twentieth century new plan of Thessaloniki. Journal of Historical Geography (to appear).
––– Codes, space and national identity: the 1918 plan for the city of Thessaloniki. Semiotica (to appear). A different version of ‘Monumental urban space’ (to appear).

Chapters in books
1975 Semeiological urbanism: An analysis of the traditional Western Sudanese settlement. In Shelter, Sign and Symbol, ed. P. Oliver, pp. 206-218. London: Barrie and Jenkins.
1984 Greece. In Planning in Europe, ed. P. H. Williams, pp. 128-143. Urban and Regional Studies, 11. London: Allen and Unwin.
1985 Communication and societies: The transmission of the chessboard urban pattern. In Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Communication, ed. W. Enninger and K. J. Brunt, pp. 211-240. Aachener Studien zur Semiotik und Kommunikationsforschung 2. Aachen: Rader Verlag.
1986 Semiotics in Greece (with K. Boklund-Lagopoulou). In The Semiotic Sphere, ed. Thomas A. Sebeok and D. J. Umiker-Sebeok, pp. 253-278. New York and London: Plenum.
1988 Urban and regional semiotics: A multidisciplinary discussion. In The Semiotic Web 1987, eds. Thomas A. Sebeok and J. Umiker-Sebeok, pp. 466-506. Berlin, New York, Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter.
1992 Sign conceptions in architecture and the fine arts in ancient Greece and Rome. In Handbuch zur Sprach- und Kommunikations­wissenschaft, eds. R. Posner, K. Robering and Thomas A. Sebeok, pp. 900-911. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter.
1993 Ανάλυση αστικών πρακτικών και χρήσεων (Analysis of urban practices and uses). In Αστική και Περιφερειακή Ανάπτυξη: Θεωρία, Ανάλυση και Πολιτική (Urban and Regional Development: Theory, Analysis and Policy), eds. P. Getimis, G, Kafkalas and N. Maravegias, pp. 123-166. Athens: Themelio.
1994 A semiotic look at mental images and sketch maps. In Lebens-Welt Zeichen-Welt / Life World Sign World (Festschrift für Martin Krampen am 65. Geburtstag), vol. 2, pp. 422-458. Lüneburg: Jansen-Verlag.
1994 Ανάλυση αστικών πρακτικών και χρήσεων (Analysis of urban practices and Uses). In Αστική και περιφερειακή ανάπτυξη: θεωρία, ανάλυση και πολιτική (Urban and Regional Development: Theory, Analysis and Policy), eds. P. Getimis, G. Kafkalas and N. Maravegias, pp. 123-166. Athens: Themelio.
1995 Postmodernism and geography. In Ensaios em Homenagem a / Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Sebeok, ed. N. Tasca, Cruzeiro Semiotico 22-25: 437-452.
1997 Sign conceptions in architecture and the fine arts in ancient Greece and Rome. In Semiotik / Semiotics: Ein Handbuch zu den zeichentheoretischen Grundlagen von Natur und Kultur, eds. R. Posner, K. Robering and Th. A. Sebeok, vol. I, pp. 900-911. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter.

Published conference papers
1980 Κοινωνιο-σημειωτική του χώρου: τρόποι παραγωγής και σημειωτικές αστικές δομές (Socio-semiotics of space: Modes of production and urban semiotic structures). In Σημειωτική και Κοινωνία (Semiotics and Society), Proceedings of the 1st Congress of the Hellenic Semiotic Society, ed. K. Boklund-Lagopoulou, pp. 111-130. Athens: Odysseas.
1980 Social structures and semiotic systems: Theory, methodology, some applications and conclusions. With K. Boklund-Lagopoulou. In Σημειωτική και Κοινωνία (Semiotics and Society), Proceeding of the 1st Congress of the Hellenic Semiotic Society, ed. K. Boklund-Lagopoulou, pp. 23-37. Athens: Odysseas. A shorter version appeared in 1984 in Semiotics Unfolding (Proceedings of the Second International Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Vienna, 1980), ed. T. Borbé, vol. I, pp. 431-438. Amsterdam: Mouton.
1986 Η ποιητικότητα της πόλης (The poetics of the city). In Πρακτικά του πέμπτου συμποσίου ποίησης: κοινωνία και ποίηση (Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Poetry: Society and Poetry, Patras). Athens: Gnosi.
1986 Σημειωτική και ιστορία (Semiotics and history). In Η δυναμική των σημείων: πεδία και μέθοδοι μιας κοινωνιοσημειωτικής (The Dynamics of Signs: Fields and Methods of Sociosemiotics), Proceedings of the 2nd Congress of the Hellenic Semiotic Society, eds. A.Ph. Lagopoulos, P. Martinidis, K. Boklund-Lagopoulou, K. V. Spyridonidis, pp. 41-63. Thessaloniki: Paratiritis. Shortened version of ‘Semiotics and History’, 1986.
1988 Marxism, semiotics, and urban space : The social semiotic typology of urban texts. In Semiotic Theory and Practice (Proceedings of the Third International Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, eds. M. Herzfeld and L. Melazzo, vol. II, pp. 601-610. Berlin, New York, Amsterdam : Mouton de Gruyter.
1989 Formation sociale et structure urbaine de l’Athènes classique. In Χώρος και ιστορία: αστικός, αρχιτεκτονικός και περιφερειακός χώρος. Πρακτικά Συμποσίου Σκοπέλου (Space and History: Urban, Architectural and Regional Space. Proceedings of the Skopelos Symposium), eds. E. P. Dimitriadis and A. Karadimou-Gerolympou. Thessaloniki. Shortened version of ‘Structure sociale globale …’, 1988. Limited circulation.
1989 The protection of ecosystems and economic development in Eastern Macedonia and Thraki. In “Europa-park” in Nordost-Grienchenland? ed. C. Lienau. Berichte aus dem Arbeitsgebiet Entwicklungsforschung, 15, pp. 75-87. Münster: Institut für Geographie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität. Limited circulation.
1991 The constitution of the subject of semiosis. With K. Boklund-Lagopoulou. In Theoretische und praktische Relevanz der Semiotik (Akten des Internationalen Symposiums, Essen), eds. J. Bernard, W. Enninger, A. Eschbach and G. Withalm, pp. 141-158. Wien: Institut für Sozio-Semiotische Studien.
1992 The social semiotics of space vs the semiotics of space. In Signs of Humanity (Proceedings of the IVth International Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Barcelona-Perpignan 1989), eds. G. Deledalle, with M. Balat and J. Deledalle-Rhodes, vol. II, pp. 879-884. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
1992 The semiotics of emancipation. In Signs of Humanity (Proceedings of the IVth International Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Barcelona-Perpignan 1989), eds. G. Deledalle, with M. Balat and J. Deledalle-Rhodes, vol. III, pp. 1729-1733. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
1993 Groupes sociaux, structure régionale et codes culturels. In Figures architecturales, formes urbaines (Actes du congrès de Genève de l’Association Internationale de Sémiotique de l’Espace), ed. P. Pellegrino, pp. 145-165. Paris: Anthropos.
1994 Μη γλωσσικά συστήματα και ιδεολογία: τέχνη και χώρος στην αρχαία Ελλάδα (Non-verbal systems and ideology: Art and space in ancient Greece). In Η ζωή των σημείων (The Life of Signs), Proceedings of the 3rd Congress of the Hellenic Semiotic Society, eds. E. G. Kapsomenos and G. P. Paschalidis, pp. 82-117. Topics in Semiology and Culture. Thessaloniki: Paratiritis. Version of ‘Sign conceptions’, 1997.
1996 Μεταμοντερνισμός, κοινωνική σημειωτική και χώρος (Postmodernism, social semiotics and space). In ΄Ανθρωπος ο σημαίνων (Man the Signifying), Proceedings of the 4th National Congress of the Hellenic Semiotic Society, eds. A.Ph. Lagopoulos, K. Boklund-Lagopoulou, V. Tentokali and K. Tsoukala, vol. II, pp. 93-114. Topics in Semiology and Culture. Thessaloniki: Paratiritis. Shortened version of ‘Postmodernism, geography …’, 1993.
1996 Η διδασκαλία της σημειωτικής του αστικού σχεδιασμού (The teaching of the semiotics of urban design). In Σημειωτική και εκπαίδευση (Semiotics and Education-Proceedings of the Florina Symposium), eds. S. Kamaroudis and E. Hodolidou, pp. 99-122. Topics in Semiology and Culture. Thessaloniki: Paratiritis.
1997 Space as the articulation of the material and the semiotic. In Semiotics Around The World: Synthesis in Diversity (Proceedings of the 5th Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Berkeley 1994), eds. I. Rauch and G. F. Carr, pp. 537-540. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter.
1997 Semiotics of space: The state of the art. In Arquitectura, semiòtica i ciències socials: Topogènesi, ed. J. Muntañola, pp. 11-14. Barcelona: Editions UPC.
1998 Semiotics of urban space: The modes of semiosis in early Renaissance Rome. In The Man and the City: Spaces, Forms, Meanings (Proceedings of the Congress of the International Association for the Semiotics of Space, St. Petersburg 1995), ed. P. Pellegrino, with A. Ph. Lagopoulos and A. Barabanov, pp. 157-169. St. Petersburg, etc.: Architecton. Shortened version of ‘From the stick to the region’, 1993.
1998 Ο υποκειμενικός χώρος της Θεσσαλονίκης: κώδικες και μοντέλα (The subjective space of Thessaloniki: Codes and models). In Θεσσαλονίκη: επαγγέλματα, παραγωγή-εμπόριο, κοινωνική ζωή, 18ος-20ός αιώνας (Thessaloniki: Professions, Production and Commerce, Social Life, 18th-20th Centuries), Proceedings of an international congress, pp. 155-160. Thessaloniki: Thessaloniki Cultural Capitol of Europe 1997.
1998 Subjectivist historical geography and semiotics: The case of Constantinople. In Ιστορική γεωγραφία: δρόμοι και κόμβοι της Βαλκανικής από την αρχαιότητα στην ενιαία Ευρώπη (Historical Geography: Roads and Crossroads of the Balkans from Antiquity to the European Union), Proceedings of the Thessaloniki International Congress of Historical Geography, eds. Ε.P. Dimitriadis, A. Ph. Lagopoulos and G. Tsotsos, pp. 23-32. Thessaloniki: Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe 1997.
1999 Πολιτισμική και μεταμοντέρνα γεωγραφία (Cultural and postmodern geography). In Διαστάσεις της σύγχρονης γεωγραφίας: σπουδές και επαγγελματικές προοπτικές, διεπιστημονικότητα και εφαρμογές (Aspects of Modern Geography: Studies and Professional Perspectives, Interdisciplinarity and Applications), Proceedings of the 1st Scientific Meeting of the Students’ Union of the School of Geography, pp. 61-77. Limited circulation.
2000 Νάουσα, σταυρωμένη πόλη (Νaousa, ‘crossed’city). In Διεθνές Συνέδριο Παραδοσιακής Βαλκανικής Αρχιτεκτονικής (Ιnternational Congress on Traditional Balkan Architecture), ed. N. Kalogirou, pp. 185-196. Veria: Municipality of Veria.
2001 The cosmic and the aesthetic: two hidden codes of the Vitruvian city. In L’espace dans l’image et dans le texte (Colloque d’Urbino, Association Internationale de Sémiotique de l’Espace), ed. P. Pellegrino, pp. 132-140. Urbino: QuattroVenti.
2001 Ανθρωπολογία του χώρου: «ζώσιμο» και «σταύρωμα» του χωριού στην Ελλάδα (Anthropology of space: ‘Encircling’ and ‘crossing’ of the village in Greece). In Ελληνικός παραδοσιακός πολιτισμός: λαογραφία και ιστορία (Greek Traditional Culture: Folklore and History), Congress in memory of Alki Kyriakidou-Nestoros, ed. Chr. Hatzitaki-Kapsomenou, pp. 84-93. Thessaloniki: Paratiritis.
2001 Prescriptive and Western discourses relating to space, and their encounter in Alberti’s thought. In Σημειωτική και Πολιτισμός (Semiotics and Culture), Proceedings of the 5th Congress of the Hellenic Semiotic Society, eds. G. Paschalidis and E. Hodolidou, τόμ. ΙΙ, Ιδεολογία, επιστήμη, τέχνη, αρχιτεκτονική (vol. II, Ideology, Science, Art, Architecture), pp. 272-284. Thessaloniki: Paratiritis. Shortened version of Spatial discourses, 1998.
2001 The social meaning of space: Metaphor and politics. In El futur de l’arquitecte: Ment, territori, societat, 1, ed. J Muntañola, pp. 99-118. Barcelona: Edicions UPC.
2002 Sustainable development versus epistemology. In Επανασχεδιασμός υποβαθμισμένων και κατεστραμμένων περιοχών της Ευρώπης (Reconstruction of Declining and Destroyed Areas of Europe), Proceedings of an international symposium, Thessaloniki, eds. E. P. Dimitriadis, Ch. Th. Kousidonis and A.Ph. Lagopoulos, pp. 35-56. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press.
––– Classification, metaphor, and power: built space in Ethiopia. In Place and Location III (Conference Proceedings). Tallinn: Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts (to appear). A different version of ‘The symbolism of space in Ethiopia’, 2001.

Review articles, bibliographies, and entries in reference works
1982 Review of Derek Gregory, Ideology, Science and Human Geography. Πόλη και Περιφέρεια (City and Region) 4/5: 123-131.
1983 Review of Michael Herzfeld, Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology and the Making of Modern Greece. American Journal of Semiotics 2 (3): 146-151.
1984 Grèce. Bibliographie Semiotique II – Atlas. Actes Semiotiques 7 (29): 11-14.
1985 Review of D. Preziosi, Minoan architectural design. Kodikas / Code 8 (1/2): 167-175.
1986 Settlement space, semiotics of. In Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, ed. Thomas A. Sebeok, pp. 924-936. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 2nd, revised edition, 1994.
1986 Comments on the paper by Μichael Herzfeld, Closure as cure: Tropes in the exploration of bodily and social disorder. Current Anthropology 27 (2): 115-116.
––– Semiotics. With K. Boklund Lagopoulou. In Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. London: Sage (to appear).


Applied research studies and planning projects
Regional research studies
1976-78 Research on the Network of Urban Settlements in Greece. Coordinator and principal researcher. Chair B of Urban Planning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Financed by the Technical Chamber of Northern Greece. Two volumes.
1982-83 Industrialization, Regional Labour Market, and Productive Investments by Remigrants in a Peripheral Region: The Case of Thraki in Northern Greece. Coordinator (with C. Lienau) and principal researcher. Planning Research Group, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Division of Development Studies, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Financed by Stiftung Volkswagenwerk. One volume.
1985-87 The Social Conception of Regional Space: The Case of Northern Greece. Coordinator and principal researcher. Research group from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Financed by the General Secretariat of Research and Technology. One volume.
1990-93 Internal European Market and Regional Underdevelopment in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Coordinator (with C. Lienau) and principal researcher. Planning Research Group, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Division of Development Studies, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Financed by Stiftung Volkswagenwerk. One volume.
1995-97 Study of the Geography of Culture in the Region of Macedonia. Principal researcher. Research group of the Department of Urban and Regional Development, Aristotle University. Financed by the Research Committee of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. One volume.
1997 Cultural Geography of Macedonia and Thrace. Study and Application of Measures and Actions for the Development of Human and Cultural Resources: Guidelines for a Policy for Local Development. Coordinator and principal researcher. Research group from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Financed by the Hellenic Centre for Productivity.

Regional planning projects
1963-67 Regional Planning Study and Research on the Departments of the Peloponnese. Researcher. Centre for Urban Planning, National Technical University of Athens. Financed by the Ministries of Governmental Policy, Public Works, and Social Services. Co-editor of the final volume, 1973.
1968 Regional Planning Study of Epirus and Thessalia. Researcher in the first part of the study. Centre for Urban Planning, National Technical University of Athens. Financed by the Ministries of Coordination, Public Works, and Social Services.

Urban research studies
1973-77 Study of Urban Standards. Researcher and responsible for four volumes. Center for Urban Planning, National Technical University of Athens. Financed by the Ministry of Coordination.
1984-85 Branch Structure and Spatial Structure of Industry in the Wider Area of Thessaloniki. Coordinator and principal researcher. Research group from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Financed by the Ministry of Regional Planning. One volume.
1985-86 Research on Sports, Sports Indices and Standards in the Thessaloniki Metropolitan Area. Coordinator and principal researcher. Research group from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Financed by the General Secretariat for Sports. One volume.

Urban planning and design projects
1983 Report on the urban planning of the municipality of Polichni in the Thessaloniki Metropolitan Area. With N. Komninos. Financed by the municipality.
1983-85 Urban Improvement and Upgrading of the City Centre: Case Study of Larisa. Researcher. Research group from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Financed by the Ministry of Regional Planning. One volume.
1990-92 Urban Planning Study for the Upgrading of the Centre of Katerini. Principal researcher. Research group from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Financed by the Municipality of Katerini. One volume.
1991-94 Study of Academic Planning and Master Plan of the Technical University of Crete. Consultant. Research group of the School of Architecture, Aristotle University. Financed by the Technical University of Crete.
1992-93 Development Strategy of Democritus University of Thrace. Principal researcher and responsibility for architectural standards. Research group of the School of Architecture, Aristotle University. Financing by Democritus University of Thrace. One volume on standards.
1993 Support of Human Resources and Build Environment in the Settlement of Archangelos, Department of Pella. Coordinator (with N. K. Moutsopoulos) and principal researcher. Research group of the School of Architecture, Aristotle University. Financed by Filkeram-Johnson Company. One volume.
1993-94 Feasibility report on the construction of a hotel complex near the installations of Helexpo International Fair of Thessaloniki. Coordinator and principal researcher. Research group of Aristotle University. Financing by Helexpo. One volume.
1993-95 Academic Planning and Layout Plan: School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Experimental Farm. Coordinator (with Prof. K. Demiris) and principal researcher. Financed by Aristotle University. Four volumes.
1994 Urban Improvement Study for the Central Area of Archangelos, Department of Pella. Coordinator (with N. K. Moutsopoulos) and researcher. Research group of the School of Architecture, Aritotle University. Financed by Filkeram-Johnson Company.
1994-95 Delimitation and Structural Plan for the Historic Centre (coordinator and principal researcher). Part of the project ‘Model Plan for the Regeneration and Development of the Commercial and Historic Centre of Thessaloniki’ (general coordinator N. Komninos). School of Architecture, Aristotle University. Financed by the Agency for the Master Plan of Thessaloniki. One volume.
1994-96 Municipality of Rhodes: Study of Traffic Problems, Creation of Pedestrian Streets and Development Possibilities – Alternative Scenarios. Principal researcher. Research group of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Development. Financed by the Municipality of Rhodes. One volume.
1997 Study of Land Uses and Possibilities of Alternative Proposals for the Old City of Thessaloniki. Principal researcher. Research group from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Financed by Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe 1997. One volume.
1998-99 Urban Planning Proposal: Study of Land Uses and Planning Legislation for the Old City of Thessaloniki. Coordinator and principal researcher. Research group from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Financed by the Municipality of Thessaloniki. One volume.
1999-2002 Preparation of a Master Plan for the protection and development of the Experimental Farm of the School of Veterinary Medicine at Kolchiko, Langadas. Coordinator and principal researcher. Research group from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Financed by the Research Committee of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Two volumes.

Lectures in congresses, symposia, etc.
Participation with papers in more than a hundred congresses, symposia and similar events.
Participation in all World Congresses of the International Association for Semiotic Studies since the first in Milano in 1974.
Invited plenary speaker at the 7th World Congress of IASS in Dresden (1999).
Responsible for the organization and obtaining of funding of many national and international congresses and symposia.

Teaching experience
Undergraduate programme
Forty years of teaching various undergraduate courses in Urban planning theory, Urban design theory, Sociology of space, Urban planning and design applications, Regional planning applications, and the Semiotics of space.
Postgraduate programmes
Semiosis and Communication, and Non-Verbal Semiotic Systems. Two courses taught in the interdisciplinary postgraduate programme in the Sciences of Language and Communication, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University.
Urban Planning (Coordinator and lecturer). Course taught in the interdisciplinary postgraduate programme of Protection, Conservation and Restoration of Architectural Monuments, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University.
Urban Planning (Co-teaching). Course taught in the interdisciplinary postgraduate programme in Landscape Architecture, Schools of Architecture and Agriculture.
Supervision of, or member of the supervising committee for, about 15 doctoral dissertations

Administrative experience
1966-68 Organization of postgraduate seminar in Urban Planning, School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens
1980-82 Chair, Committee of Professors, School of Architecture
1984-85 Chair, School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
1983-93 Head, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Architecture, Aristotle University
1976- Management and coordination of numerous research projects

References in the work of other scholars
Several dozen references by international scholars in books and journal articles. References found in journal articles (since 1974) are listed in the Social Sciences Citation Index. An indication of the kinds of references may be found on the Internet site www.lab.auth.gr/gr/isi.html

Distinctions
Offices held in Semiotic Societies
1981- President, Hellenic Semiotic Society
1980- Member, Executive Committee, International Association for Semiotic Studies-Association Internationale de Sémiotique
1989-92 Member of the Collegium, International Semiotic Institute
1999- Vice President, International Association for Semiotic Studies
1999- Honorary President, Association Internationale de la Sémiotique de l’Espace (Vice President 1994-99)
1994-96 Founding member and first President, Balkan Association of Semiotic Societies

Entries in biographical publications
Encyclopaedia Papyrus-Larousse-Britannica (in Greek), Greece.
Who’s Who in the World, Marquis Who’s Who, USA
Who’s Who in America, Marquis Who’s Who, USA
The Contemporary Who’s Who, American Biographical Institute, USA
International Book of Honor, American Biographical Institute, USA
One Thousand Great Intellectuals, International Biographical Centre, England
The European Who’s Who, Metron, Greece
Who’s Who in Greece and Cyprus, Metron Greece
Biographical Dictionary: Who’s Who (in Greece), Metron, Greece

Α.-Φ. Λαγόπουλος: μικρό φωτογραφικό οδοιπορικό


Α.-Φ. Λαγόπουλος: μικρό φωτογραφικό οδοιπορικό
με λίγη αδιακρισία και πολλή αγάπη (αν δεν ήταν η Κάριν...)


Φωτογραφίες από την εκδήλωση 17/4/2007




Φίλοι, συνεργάτες αλλά και μαθητές μαζεύτηκαν στο Εντευκτήριο, Δεσπεραί 9, στις 17 Απριλίου 2007 για να πιουν ένα κρασί και να μιλήσουν για τον δάσκαλο, τον φίλο, τον συνεργάτη. Χάρις στην Κάριν η έκπληξη κρατήθηκε μέχρι τέλους.








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Θεσσαλονίκη, 7 Δεκεμβρίου 2006

Αγαπητ κυρ ,
Με αφορμή τη συνταξιοδότηση του Αλέξανδρου Λαγόπουλου, σκεφτήκαμε να διοργανώσουμε μία συνάντηση φίλων και συνεργατών του για να του δώσουμε τις ευχές μας στο καινούργιο ξεκίνημα της ακαδημαϊκής του πορείας, απαλλαγμένης πλέον από την ευθύνη του εκπαιδευτικού έργου.
Θέλουμε στη συνάντηση αυτή να παρουσιάσουμε τις εμπειρίες, που όλοι μας αποκομίσαμε από τις διάφορες μορφές συνεργασίας μας με τον Αλέξανδρο. Βασική μας επιδίωξη είναι να αποφύγουμε μια αυστηρή ακαδημαϊκή διαδικασία απόδοσης τιμής, που αν και την αξίζει δεν αρμόζει στην ιδιοσυγκρασία του και στο δυναμικό του χαρακτήρα. Θέλουμε η γιορτή αυτή να είναι μια ευκαιρία για ένα ποτήρι κρασί, κουβέντα, ιδιαίτερες μνήμες και όσο μπορούμε περισσότερο χιούμορ…

Σκεφτόμαστε να πραγματοποιήσουμε αυτό το “project” γύρω στα τέλη Φεβρουαρίου. Προτείνουμε κατ’αρχήν την πρώτη Παρασκευή μετά την Καθαρή Δευτέρα, δηλαδή στις 23.2.2007 το απόγευμα, γύρω στις 7, στο κτίριο της Κεντρική Βιβλιοθήκης του Α.Π.Θ. Προσπαθούμε να εξασφαλίσουμε τις οικονομικές προϋποθέσεις για την πραγματοποίηση του, γι’αυτό η συμβολική συμμετοχή σας θα ήταν ευπρόσδεκτη.

Θα θέλαμε να μας ενημερώσεις αν μπορείς να είσαι μαζί μας αυτήν την ημέρα και να σου ζητήσουμε, αν έχεις την πρόθεση να παρουσιάσεις ένα κείμενο, ως μία σελίδα PC (ομιλία max. 5’-8’) για την εμπειρία της γνωριμίας σου με τον Αλέξανδρο. Ακόμη να στείλεις εγκαίρως φωτογραφίες, ανέκδοτα ή άλλα άγνωστα στους περισσότερους περιστατικά, τα οποία θα προσπαθήσουμε να παρουσιάσουμε στην εκδήλωση. Περιττό να σου πούμε ότι ο Αλέξανδρος δε γνωρίζει τίποτε από όλα αυτά και θα ήταν καλό να μην μάθει…

Στείλε μας την απάντηση σου με σχόλια και ιδέες στη παρακάτω ηλεκτρονική διεύθυνση, spirido@arch.auth.gr, ή επικοινώνησε με τα τηλέφωνα:
Β. Δημητριάδης 2310 208531 / 995476, Φαξ 2310 995572
Κ. Β. Σπυριδωνίδης 2310 458660 / 995589, Φαξ 2310 994241

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