A selection of publications and ongoing research by Angelo Baltoyannis, exploring architecture as a system of spatial, cultural, and environmental relationships, with emphasis on fundamental principles, historical continuity, and their relevance to contemporary practice.

Adaptation is an architectural study on bioclimatic design and the long relationship between buildings, climate, and human habitation. The book approaches climate change not only as an environmental challenge, but as a design condition that has always shaped architecture, materials, spatial organization, and everyday life.

The work traces the idea of adaptation through both vernacular and contemporary architecture, examining how buildings have historically responded to seasonal change, sunlight, wind, heat, and landscape. From shutters, shaded courtyards, vegetation, thermal mass, and seasonal rooms to modern passive strategies, the book presents adaptation as a fundamental architectural intelligence.

Rather than treating sustainability as a technical add-on, Adaptation frames bioclimatic design as a cultural and spatial discipline: a way of designing buildings that are more efficient, more resilient, and more deeply connected to place.

Memories of the East is a photographic and documentary work based on a rediscovered archive assembled by P. Balestra, a traveler whose identity remains undocumented active in the late nineteenth century. The book traces a journey through the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East, presenting photographs as primary historical evidence rather than illustration.

The narrative unfolds through a close reading of the images themselves—places, dates, routes, and recurring subjects—reconstructing identity indirectly through viewpoint and historical context rather than biography.

The photographs, taken between 1882 and the early twentieth century, document monuments, landscapes, and everyday scenes, revealing the architectural and cultural continuity of the region.

Sacred Architecture is an architectural and theoretical study of Ancient Greek sacred space, based on the research of George Baltoyannis. The book examines the relationship between form, geometry, symbolism, and place, approaching ancient architecture not only as construction, but as an expression of cosmological and spiritual order.

The work develops around the duality of the chthonic and the celestial—two complementary dimensions that shaped the spatial logic of sanctuaries, temples, and ritual landscapes. Through this lens, architecture becomes a field where earth, sky, myth, and human presence are brought into structured relation.

Originally published in Greek as Ιερή Αρχιτεκτονική, the English edition presents this research to a wider audience, preserving the conceptual depth of the original work while making its architectural reading accessible to contemporary readers, researchers, and those interested in the symbolic foundations of Greek sacred space.

A significant part of the historical and architectural work presented here builds upon an extensive body of research developed over decades by architect and researcher George Baltoyannis.

His work established a framework for interpreting Ancient Greek Architecture through spatial, symbolic, and cosmological relationships, forming a foundation for later research and publication within this specific field.