Petros Martinidis

Petros Martinidis is an emeritus professor at the Department of Architecture at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Born in Thessaloniki in 1946, he studied architecture, psychology, text theory, history, and philosophy of science. He taught at the Polytechnic School for 35 years and continues to teach in postgraduate programs at other schools. He has written numerous articles and books related to his scientific fields and 10 detective novels over the past 20 years. His first book was the essays "In Defense of Pulp Literature" (1982), "Words in Architecture and Scientific Thought" (1990), "Comics, Art, and Techniques of Illustration" (1990), "The High Art of Despair: Around Arkas' Isovitis" (1992), "Mediations of the Visible: Issues of Criticism Theory in Architecture and Art" (1997), and "Transformations of Theatrical Space: Typical Phases in the Evolution of Theaters in the West" (1999). His notable presence in detective fiction began with the tetralogy "Serially" (1998), "In Case of Fire" (1999), "Memory Games" (2001), and "Dead Again" (2002). This was followed by the trilogy "Fatal Reflections" (2003), "Hope Dies Last" (2005), and "God Protects the Atheists" (2006). In 2007, he published "How to Get to Arkas' 'Paradise': Revisiting the History of Laughter" and in 2011, the book "Criticism and Sensitivity: The Evolution of Critical Thought on Art." In 2000, he was awarded the Theater Critics Association Award for his work "Transformations of Theatrical Space: Typical Phases in the Evolution of Theaters in the West." He also contributed short stories to the first three volumes of Greek Crimes (2007, 2008, and 2009). (photo: Kostas Mitropoulos)