Panos Mantziaras

Director - Fondation Braillard Architects

Panos Mantziaras is director of Fondation Braillard Architects.
Graduate of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), with a Master’s Degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Doctorate in urban planning from the University Paris 8, Panos Mantziaras taught at the Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Malaquais, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand and La Villette. He has given numerous conferences in Europe, the USA, Canada and Japan.
He has been Head of the Bureau for Architectural, Urban and Landscape Research at the French Ministry of Culture and Communication since 2011. There, he was in charge of orienting the research themes and methods in the forty laboratories for architecture distributed in the twenty French National Schools of Architecture.
He is the initiator of incentive research programs such as Ignis Mutat Res: architecture, the city and the landscape through the prism of energy (2011-2015) and La grande ville 24 heures chrono (2012-2013), which highlighted issues of energy and resource management by and for the disciplines of space transformation: architecture, urban planning, landscape.