Christos Kakalis
Dr. Christos Kakalis(Edinburgh) is an architect (University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece). He obtained the interdisciplinary MSc ‘Design, Space, Culture’ at the National Technical University of Athens. He holds a PhD in Architecture from the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (E.S.A.L.A) His work focuses on the conditions of embodied experience of the architecture and natural landscape. Since October 2014, he has been conducting postdoctoral research between McGill University and The University of Edinburgh on the role of silence in architectural experience. He is currently working on the forthcoming monograph Place Experience of the Sacred: Silence, Communal Ritual and the Topography of Mount Athos (Peter Lang, 2017) and the edited collection (along with Dr Emily Goetsch) Mountains, Mobilities and Movements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).