Stavros Stavrides, architect and activist, is Emeritus Professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, where he taught graduate courses on housing design (social housing included) and urban design. He still teaches postgraduate courses on research methodology and on the meaning of metropolitan experience.
Until recently he was the head of NTUA Lab Architectural Design and Communication and director of the NTUA postgraduate Program Research in Architecture: Architectural Design — Space — Culture. He has done extensive research fieldwork in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Mexico focused on housing-as-commons and on urban struggles for self-management.
Stavros has written extensively on the urban commons for decades. Some recent publications include: The Politics of Urban Potentiality (London 2024) Housing as Commons (edited with Penny Travlou, London 2023), Common Spaces of Urban Emancipation (Manchester 2019), Common Space: The City as Commons (London 2016, Istanbul 2016, Athens 2019, Lisbon 2021, Milano 2022, forthcoming in Bucharest, Belgrade and Seoul), and Towards the City of Thresholds (Trento 2010, Madrid 2016, Istanbul 2016, New York 2019), as well as numerous articles on spatial theory and the urban commoning culture.