Born in Athens in 1963, Antonas is an architect, writer, philosopher and artist. With a degree in architecture and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Paris-Nanterre, Antonas currently heads the two offices, in Athens and Berlin, of his design and research studio. He has combined teaching activities at prestigious international institutes, such as the Volos School of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Bartlett UCL, the Architectural Association of London, the ETH of Zurich and the Akademie der bildenden Kunste of Vienna, with that of lecturer; he has lectured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Architecture of Venice (IUAV), the Architectural Association of London (AA) and the University of Cyprus. He participated in the “Documenta 14” Art Exhibition and curated three solo exhibitions on his production at the Swiss Architecture Museum, the Vorarlberger Architektur Institut, in Austria, and the FRAC Center in Orléans, France. He was co-curator of the Greek Pavilion at the 2004 Venice Biennale and co-founder of Built Event – spatial practices for architecture, art, curating and urbanism, presented at the Landscape Biennale in Barcelona in 2006, at the Architecture Biennale of São Paolo in 2007, at the Contemporaneo Gallery of Mestre in 2008, at the Thessaloniki Biennial in 2009 and at the Gyumri Biennale in Armenia in 2010. His works have been featured among other places at the Athens Biennale, the Istanbul Biennale, the Tranzit Display in Prague and at the New Museum in New York and shortlisted for the prestigious Mies Van der Rohe Award in 2009, Iakov Chernikhov International Prize in 2011 and Schelling Architecture Award in 2018. He has written numerous books and two theatre plays, performed by Éclats d ‘États, in France. His principal topics of interest are architecture considered as a series of processes, which he defines as “urban protocols”, or new types of urban and living spaces for a different world, infrastructure of the domestic sphere and stability from the exaggeration of data flow; texts combined with traditional design techniques that often make use of references to legislation and archaeology.