CHS Greece congratulates Harvard graduates, Costis Paniyiris (MArch II '92), Professor at the University of Thessaly and Andreas Nikolovgenis (MArch II '15), Assist. Professor at the University of Ioannina and Associate in Architecture at CHS, for the assumption of the curation of the Greek participation in the 18th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, and contributes as supporting institution to the Greek participation, recognizing the great value of the project.

The Greek participation, entitled Bodies of Water, will present dams and reservoirs that transform the country. On an already multiply altered, but generally arid ground, since the 1930s, an extensive and collective program of water retention provides for irrigation and water supply, as well as energy. A substantial number of artificial lakes constitute an extensive reverse archipelago dispersed across the rugged terrain. They transform the land into χώρα, meaning country, understood both in the sense of territory, and with its etymological origin from the verb χωρώ, to contain, that is, a place that contains the lives, actions, memories, and expectations of its inhabitants. Bodies of Water and all related structures, such as dams and earthworks, constitute public architecture in the Roman or Vitruvian sense. It is a public project of collective emancipation, literally, as providers of essential means of sustenance, and symbolically, as proud distillations of collective toil and concern for progress.