DECA

decaARCHITECTURE engages in designing, building, researching and teaching. It's designs have a broad scope of subjects and scales ranging from joysticks to urban proposals and from leisure environments to digital environments. A small minority of the projects that deca designs are also built by deca. The design+build approach allows the team to engage with design at a 1:1 scale, to experiment with tectonics in a controlled manner and to exchange knowledge in areas with restricted building cultures.

The projects of decaARCHITECTURE are dispersed throughout Greece and Europe. However, most of the research the team undertakes focuses on its home town, Athens, Greece. In 2012 deca peeped into the most private spaces of the Athenian urban fabric, bedrooms. The Athens Bedrooms research was exhibited at the Greek pavilion of the 2012 Venice Bienalle.

The work of decaARCHITECTURE has been honored with various awards including the Piranesi International Award (2009), the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Awards (2004, 2009), the Greek Architecture Awards (2004, 2009,2013), the Architectural Review Best House Awards (2010) and the Architιzer A+ Award (2014).

The work of decaARCHITECTURE has been extensively published in magazines, books and online publications including the presentation of the team's philosophy in the book 'What’s Up, 15 young European Architects (LetteraVentidue, 2012) and the presentation of Aloni house in the 100 Contemporary Houses (Tachen 2011). Other selected publications include Abitare Magazine (Italy), Entre Muros Magazine (Mexico), Natura Magazine (Turkey), α+α Magazine (China), C3Magazine (Korea) and Area Magazine (Italy) .

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Alexandros Vaitsos was born in 1971, in Lima. He has lived in Peru, France, England, Greece and the US. He studied at Harvard University (B.A Visual and Environmental Studies) and he did his Masters at the University of California at Berkeley (Masters in Architecture). He has taught architectural design as a visiting professor at the university of Thessaly and the University of Patras as well as a teaching assistant at Berkeley. He founded decaARCHITECTURE in 2001.

Carlos Loperena was born in 1970, in Mexico City. His interest in design was shaped by repeated travels to Japan and Italy during his youth. He studied industrial design in the School of Fine Arts, in the University of Kansas, where he received a B.F.A. (Hons). He continued, completing a three year M.Arch at the University of California, Berkeley. He worked for three years as an architect in NYC. He arrived in Athens in 2001 and contributed to the founding of decaARCHITECTURE.

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