School of Architecture - Technical University of Crete
Klimis Aslanidis studied architecture at the National Technical University of Greece (1998) and specialized in the conservation of historic buildings at the University of York, where he received a postgraduate degree (MA in Conservation Studies, 2000). He completed his doctoral thesis at the Department of Architecture of the University of Patras (2014), on Byzantine church architecture in Naxos. At the same department, he completed postdoctoral research on Late Byzantine architecture on the Maleas peninsula (2017-18). He has been a faculty member at the Technical University of Crete since 2018.
Klimis Aslanidis has been responsible for the design and supervision of numerous conservation projects for monuments of all historical periods (antiquity, the Middle Ages, modern times), both as a freelancer and as an employee of the Ministry of Culture, including the ancient Theater of Dionysos in Athens, numerous Byzantine monuments and the Cathedral of Athens. One of the projects in which he participated, the restoration of the Byzantine church of Agia Kyriaki in Apeiranthos, Naxos, was awarded the European Cultural Heritage Award by the European Union and Europa Nostra (Grand Prix 2018). As a member of the Laboratory for the Documentation and Conservation of Historic Buildings and Sites of the Technical University of Crete, he has participated in numerous research projects aimed at the conservation of important monuments in Crete and elsewhere. He has also participated in study groups that received awards in national architectural competitions. His publications focus mainly on Byzantine and post-Byzantine church architecture, fortifications and the conservation of historic buildings. He is a member of the Board of the Christian Archaeological Society.
Phone: (+30) 28210 37107
email: kaslanidis@tuc.gr