ABOUT US
VASSILIS AND IOANNA DOROVINIS

The Dorovinis couple is activated in the protection of architectural heritage and the natural environment.

IOANNA DOROVINIS is an architect (M.Sc. Columbia Un. NYC), specialist  in Conservation of Historic Buildings and Settlements (M.A. York Un.UK), with a PhD in History of Architecture (Athens Polytechnique Un.).

The village of Anatoli in Ierapetra Crete was the last stop in her long journey for the safeguard of Cretan Architectural Heritage, for which she has devoted the last 20 years of her career by the Ministry of Planning, Department of Traditional Settlements.

When she first visited the village, in 1997, in an autumn rainy day, the ruins and the landscape around exerted such strong  influence to her that she decided to buy a house in Crete, the Pasiphae, and convert it into a family resort.  Another house, the Kallirhoe,   followed soon, and as the merits and beauty of local domestic architectural were revealed, more people were inspired to save and restore their houses. Today she is the owner of 5 other houses, one of which is currently being restored as a deluxe Coffee-Light Meals and Drinks House In the future plans is a swimming pool complex with arts and crafts shops, coffee lounge and rooms for small seminars or executive meetings.

She is the writer of many articles concerning architectural heritage, while her doctorate thesis will soon be published under the title “The Domestic Architecture of Mytilene, Lesbos island, (1830-1920) Historical background-City Planning-Architecture”.

VASSILIS DOROVINIS is a lawyer (University of Athens),   a political scientist and an historian (D.E.S. University Paris -I ), practicing at the Supreme Administrative Court of Greece.

He was born in Argos and has participated in many famous court cases, concerning   heritage preservation and natural environment.

He was a delegate of the Greek N.G.O’s to the Aarhus Convention and currently a member of a European Network of Lawyers for the protection of the environment.
He is a legal consultant of the French Archaeological School of Athens and a lecturer at the University of Technology of Athens.

He has written many articles in scientific periodicals, as in the well known “Archaeology and the Arts”

The Dorovinis are members of the “Greek Society for the Protection of Architectural Heritage and the Environment”, and of the corresponding European “Europa Nostra”.

They have an 8 year old son, Constadis.