Ivi Diamantopoulou & Jaffer Kolb. New Affiliates. Green Talks.
Today our guests are Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb of New Affiliates an architecture practice working between Athens and New York. Ivi Diamantopoulou is a graduate of Princeton University, where she was awarded the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize for excellence in design and the Stanley J. Seeger fellowship; and a Diploma with honors graduate of Architecture and Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece. She is a registered architect in NY and Greece, with over a decade of experience in design and built work. Ivi frequently teaches design, history and theory of architecture, among others at Columbia and Syracuse Universities.
Jaffer Kolb is a graduate of Princeton University, with a Master of Urban Planning from the London School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from Wesleyan University. Jaffer worked on the 13th Architecture Biennale of Venice under David Chipperfield and was the US editor for the Architectural Review. Jafer teaches at Yale School of Architecture and Columbia GSAPP. Ivi and Jaffer joined us as speakers at the ESO Conference in June in Athens, Greece organized by Vasilis.
