Emmanouil Korres
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Emmanouil Korres | |
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| Born | 1948 (age 77–78) |
| Alma mater | National Technical University of Athens |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice | Restoration Architect, Civil Engineer and professor |
| Projects | Restoration of the Acropolis of Athens |
Emmanouil Korres (Greek: Εμμανουήλ Κορρές, born 1948) is a major Greek restoration architect, civil engineer and professor of architectural history at postgraduate studies at the National Technical University of Athens. Currently he is head of the Acropolis Restoration Service (YSMA) and a casual member of the Academy of Athens since 2017.[1]
He studied architectural engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (1972), he did his postgraduate studies at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) (German: Technische Universität München) (1975–77), he earned a doctorate at the Free University of Berlin (German: Freie Universität Berlin, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) (1991) and of the National Technical University of Athens (1992).
He worked as an engineer at the Acropolis Restoration Service (1975, 1977–1979) until he reached the position of the Head of the Department of Restorations at the Directorate for the Restoration of Ancient Monuments (1981). Then he was elected as Head for the "Parthenon" Project of the General Directorate of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture of Greece (1983–1999). He then achieved the position of professor at NTUA (1999–2015).
He has taught ancient architecture, historical topography and restoration at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California, Berkeley and at universities and uesarch institutions across Europe, the Americas and Asia.
In specific he worked in Athens at the restoration of Erechteum, the temple of Dionysus, the theatre of Dionysus and mainly in the Parthenon. He has also worked at the Theatre of Lindos and at the temple of Apollo Epikourios in Bassae.
He is president of the Central Archaeological Council of Greece, member of the German Archaeological Institute (German: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, DAI) and of the Koldewey Gesellschaft.
His latest work, filling the archaeological site of Acropolis with cement paths, has been controversial and caused protests and debate.[2][3]
