COMPANY PROFILE
AK & Associate Architects, founded in 1989 by Athanassios Kyratsous, is involved in architectural, interior designing studies and construction. The company’s portfolio comprises of a multitude of residential, urban, cultural and commercial projects.
For the past 27 years they have held one of the leading positions in the field, which has been both attained and maintained due to the knowledge and passion of the founder, together with his highly qualified and experienced associates. They offer a large spectrum of services spanning architectural, interior and industrial design, to final construction.
All undertaken projects, ranging from private houses to industrial headquarters, hotels and resorts, to mega yachts, stadiums and museums, to urban development, are each treated with the utmost care in order to fully meet expectations incorporating clients’ needs and desires, budget constraints and functionality.
While applying equal interest and attention to exterior and interior design AK & Associates consider architecture as an art form. However, as a public art it needs to be treated with particular care in order to preserve the requested balance of requirements, feasibility and aesthetics.
Despite being himself a devotee of the timeless classical style, Athanassios Kyratsous’ firm combines respect for tradition with innovative and advanced technology creating projects which preserve the past, whilst at the same time provide a reference to the future.
High quality, functionality and durability, are inevitably the prime components that characterize every project aiming to offer enduring satisfaction to their owner and users.
Although Athanassios Kyratsous’ name is associated with luxury mansions, high end urban development and important public sector projects both in Greece and beyond, for him there are no small or big projects, only one challenge: to serve each and everyone with that particular care and respect, love and passion, that turns architecture into a delight for all.
All his collaborators in the undisputable commitment to offer tailor-made solutions that turn small or big dreams into reality, they all uniformly share his personal belief:
ATHANASSIOS KYRATSOUS
Athanassios Kyratsous, born in Greece 1959, graduated from Faccolta Di Architectura (Universita Degli Studi Di Reggio, Calabria) and continued his postgraduate studies in Faccolta Di Urbanistica.
Obtaining an Italian scholarship, he extended his studies with a PhD degree in monuments’ restoration, (Instituto Di Restauro dei Monumenti di San Michele) in Rome where he opened at the same time his first architectural studio dealing mainly with preservation, configuration and restoration of historical sites such as the church Trinita dei Monti, the Palazzo Madama, the Villa Medici, the Greco-Romano amphitheater in Caserta along with many others.
Despite a promising professional career in Italy, in 1989 he returned to Greece and founded AK & Associate Architects Company, specializing in monuments’ restoration, public and private buildings’ architectural studies and construction.
A year later he founded B.R.D (Building, Restoration, Decoration) Company, thereby extending his activities in the commercial field, always in line with his profession.
In 1993 he became the official representative for Greece and East Europe for Pico International, an international company based in Singapore, which specializes in construction of trade exhibitions spaces and corporate buildings.
Deeply interested in urban development, he founded in 1999 the Blue Mountain company that operates mainly in Kea, Kythnos and Paros islands undertaking all aspects of urban and residential development from spatial and environmental studies, to final construction and commercialization.
In 2001 he extended his activities into the maritime field with ELCO marine U.K. (a subsidiary of the family’s shipping company ELCO marine consultants) dealing with shipbuilding design and interior decoration of private cruisers and mega yachts.
Singapore based Ferma S.A; a company specializing in furniture design, production and commercialization, completes in 2003 the portfolio of his activities.
Always active and eager to maintain AK & Associate Architects at the very top of the profession, Athanassios Kyratsous works incessantly following his own life’s motto:
