Pandelis Lazaridis (1941) was born in Thessaloniki. His parents came from Asia Minor. He graduated from the Experimental School of the University of Thessaloniki (1958) and began studying Civil Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He would later abandon Civil Engineering to study Painting and Architecture. He studied under painter Christos Lefakis who was Professor of Visual Arts at the Department of Architecture. In 1968 he became a research fellow and would later hold the positions of assistant and lecturer (until 1977) at the Chair of Painting and the Visual Arts Studio of the Dipartment of Architecture at the University of Thessaloniki. The first exhibitions of his work were presented in 1963-1964. His work would later be shown in group and solo exhibitions in Greece, Europe and the Usa. In 1976 he partecipated in the International Alexandria Biennal. Works of his are found in private and public collections in Greece and abroad. During the colonels' dictatorship he left Greece and remained abroad where he taught, from different academic positions, at the School of Architecture of the University of Geneva and of the Institute of Technology of Lausanne. At the same time he worked as a painter. In 1972 he became professor (Charg des Course) at the School of Architecture of the University of Geneva. After the fall of the dictatorship (1974) he returned to Greece and in 1977 he was elected Professor and appointed to the Chair of Introduction to Architecture of the Dipartment of Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 1974 also marks the beginning of his fervent writing and publishing activity, through which his research into architecture and town-planning will assume an ideological direction and social character. The books and essays that he wrote, translated, edited and published all revolve around the notion of the city: the complexity of human behavior, the diversity and contrast inherent in life within space. This approach signals a divergence on his part from views that at the time placed the aesthetics of the building at the heart of architecture. His published work can be grouped into two categories: indipendent publications and texts that have been published in journals and texts that have been published in the context of organized publication series, which himself created and edited, presenting an array of fundamental treatises and positions that were missing from a Greek bibliography of architecture, shifting attention from the technocratic and aesthetic field to the social and political. Series that were created in this context include the 'Life within Space series' - from 'A. Livanis - Nea Synora Publications' (1975) - 'The Issue of Architecture and Town-Planning serie' - from 'Paratiritis Publications' (1978) - as well as the 'Introduction to Architecture - Course Material series' (1979) that was being published by the Introduction to Architecture Studio of the Dipartment of Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. From the beginning of the 60s, his academic, writing and research activities would run parallel to an active involvement in public life and politics. He served as President (1984-1990) and later Rector (1998-2002) of the University of Thessaly. Today he holds the post of Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Thessaly. He lives and works in Volos and Athens.