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Aristides Dallas Architects is an architecture and hospitality design studio based in Athens and Tinos working across Greece and the Mediterranean. The studio designs private residences, villas, boutique hospitality projects, resorts and masterplans rooted in context, restraint and lived experience.

Our work begins before the first line is drawn. We read the land — its topography, its light, the material logic of what has been built there before. We listen to the people who will inhabit what we design. Not only what they want to build, but why they want to build it.

From private residences to boutique hospitality destinations, resorts and masterplans, the studio works across scales with one consistent principle: every place deserves an architecture that belongs to it.

We design spaces

Through light, material and proportion,
we create spaces that inspire and endure.

Villa V: rendering of a cliffside villa with a cantilevered infinity pool above the sea and a stone retaining wall
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Private
Residences
& Villas

A private residence is more than a building. It is a way of inhabiting a landscape, a climate and a rhythm of life. We design villas and homes around topography, light, privacy and comfort, creating architecture that feels deeply personal and inseparable from its setting.

  • Rendering of stone-walled villa terraces stepping down a dry Greek hillside, with a round plunge pool and a curved roof
  • Rendering of a cliffside villa with a cantilevered infinity pool overlooking the sea and a distant headland
  • Rendering, seen from above, of a villa with V-shaped pools cut into a dry hillside beside a dirt track
  • Rendering, seen from above, of a villa hidden under a planted roof, with a triangular pool and garden courtyard
  • Rendering of a low concrete villa among boulders and scrub under dark storm clouds, with a skewed window opening and a pool terrace
  • Aerial rendering of a villa with a green roof and a long glass-edged pool cantilevered from a steep scrubby slope
  • Aerial rendering of a triangular pool and stepped terrace framed by stone walls and planted roofs on a golden hillside
  • Stone and white-rendered house glowing at dusk on a rocky ridge beside a lone tree
Residence in Penteli: board-marked concrete house at dusk behind a pine tree, with a lit entrance and lawn terraces
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Urban

Urban architecture must negotiate density, privacy, regulation, light and everyday life. Our approach creates calm and precise spaces within complex city conditions, where propotion, materiality and spatial clarity improve the experience of living and working in the city.

  • Rendering of a board-marked concrete house with a long glazed band, reflected in a dark pool among bare trees
  • Rendering of a narrow urban apartment building of stacked concrete boxes with timber screens, planters and balconies under a stormy sky
  • Rendering of a multi-level villa at dusk with an indoor pool, lit terraces and tall plastered walls
  • Rendering of a slender apartment tower at dusk with timber louvres, stepped balconies and tall trees in front
  • Aerial dusk view of a modern house with a blue roof on a wooded hillside above the lights of Athens
  • Rendering at night of a white villa seen from the street, with a lit garden wall, a cantilevered upper floor and an entrance path
Pnoes Tinos: white cubic villa volumes around a dark pool with sun loungers at sunset
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Hospitality

Hospitality is not only a typology. It is a way of designing movement, privacy, atmosphere, memory and operation. From boutique hotels to villa-based destinations, we create experiences of place where architecture, landscape and service work together as one coherent system.

  • Aerial dusk view of a white boutique hotel on a Tinos slope, with stepped plunge pools and terraces beside a road
    Boutique Hospitality
  • Rendering of a long resort pool with sun loungers and closed parasols, with low buildings on a bare mountain behind
    Resorts
  • Aerial rendering of a resort masterplan with winding paths, curved terrace walls, pools and planted roofs on a hillside
    Masterplans
Rendering of a renovated farmhouse at dusk with board-marked concrete walls, an infinity pool and a stone terrace under an olive tree
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Renovation

Renovation requires judgement before gesture. We identify what should remain, what should be revealed and what must change, transforming existing buildings into more coherent, generous and contemporary spatial experiences without erasing their memory.

  • Rendering of a glass-roofed bathing room with stone tub, stepped seating and a bedroom beyond, city lights outside
  • Rendering of a white plastered villa with a timber pergola and two daybeds beside a dark reflecting pool
  • Rendering of rounded white cubic volumes resting on a rough stone base with a timber walkway and olive tree
  • Rendering of a stone-walled courtyard with a timber pergola, cacti, a wide lounger and a pool in the foreground
  • Rendering of a board-marked concrete villa at dusk with a stepped terrace, olive tree and an infinity pool in the foreground
  • Rendering of a two-storey concrete villa with a cantilevered upper floor, a lounge terrace and a long narrow pool beside the slope

The Studio

A studio of architects, designers and
thinkers working between Athens and Tinos.

Architects gathered around large printed drawings on a studio table, seen from above in black and white

Founded by Aristides Dallas the studio has grown into a team of architects working across private, hospitality and development projects throughout Greece. The practice combines creative direction with operational discipline, seeking architecture that is both emotionally precise and technically grounded.

Portrait of Aristides Dallas, founder, standing in a white shirt against a warm timber-panelled wall

Aristides Dallas

Founder / Lead Architect

We do not design to be noticed. We design so that a building, over time, begins to feel as though it was always there.

Selected Clients & Collaborations

  • Costa Navarino logo
  • Soho House logo
  • Design Ambassador, Berlin, Germany logo
  • Empiria Group logo mark, a white sun and wave symbol in a black circle
  • OTE logo
  • Scorpios logo
  • Empiria Group logo
  • Design Hotels logo

Journal

Thoughts, publications and selected
moments from the studio’s ongoing work.

The work of Aristides Dallas Architects has been published and recognised by
leading architecture and design platforms in Greece and internationally.

  • Designboom logo
  • Architizer logo
  • Architizer A+Awards logo
  • Fortune Greece logo
  • LiFO logo
  • Ktirio logo
  • ArchDaily logo