The Association of Greek Archaeologists (HOS) and the Epigraphic Museum are organizing a lecture by Mr. Manolis Stavrakakis, Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens, entitled “The Traces of Linear B,” on Thursday, March 26, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. in the Lecture Hall of the Epigraphic Museum (1 Tositsa Street, Athens).

What is the connection between Michael Ventris’s decipherment of Linear B and its architecture? The talk attempts, through an analogical reading of decipherment (Writing) and architecture (Drawing), to show how one process influenced the other. It will focus both on the issue of decoding and on the issue of architectural representation: what is it that one could define as architectural in a non-architectural function?

Manolis Stavrakakis was born in Heraklion, Crete, and studied architecture in Athens (National Technical University of Athens), New York (AAD, Columbia University), and London (PhD, Architectural Association). He taught architectural design and architectural theory at the Architectural Association and at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, between 2011 and 2021. Since 2021, he has been an Assistant Professor at the School of Architectural Engineering at NTUA and works as an architect based in Athens.