Dimitris Potiropoulos

Who is Dimitris Potiropoulos?

Dimitris Potiropoulos was born in Athens in 1953. He is the son of Rigas and Aliki. He studied Architecture at Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, in Germany. During his studies, he served as a Scientific Associate at the Chair of Free Hand Drawing from 1978 to 1980. He specialized in Architectural Design and was awarded a special commendation for his project “Residential Proposal in the Historical Centre of Reutlingen”. He completed his studies in 1981.

From 1978 to 1989, he worked in the beginning as a student and later on as an associate architect in architectural offices, among others in Konstantinos Kapsabelis’ office, Professor Helmut Striffler’s studio, and Alexandros Tompazis’ office. In parallel, he started his own studio, in 1982 and participated in architectural competitions.

In 1987 he started collaborating with his wife, architect Liana Nella-Potiropoulou and in 1989 they established in partnership their own firm “Potiropoulos D+L Architects”. He has been repeatedly awarded prizes and has received distinctions in architectural competitions. Among them: 1st Prize for the Museum of Natural History in Samos, 3rd Prize for the T.E.E.