Meet our team
X Collective crafts architectural ideas bringing to life projects that are inspired by values, emotions, and pragmatism, shaping tomorrow’s demanding future inside a brighter, and more beautiful environment.
Our enthusiasm and creativity for architecture and design along with our experience in projects such as hotels, private residences and commercial buildings are the ingredients to compose unique and open-minded ecosystems.
We form project environments that allow things to happen. We experiment with materials and building technics. We respect local values. We design and fabricate custom geometrical structures. No matter the scale, We aim for a unique architectural identity for our projects and for a unique living experience for our clients. We, collectively.
X Collective has managed to finish striking projects combining a kind of unbound idealism and attention to detail. Designing with challenges or specific targets tease our principal role; creating projects that trigger emotions and influence how people feel spiritually and mentally, connecting people to their feelings and actualities of life, but also not neglecting to “bring to the table” insight into the subtleness of today’s world.
X Collective is a bundle of pragmatic idealists, a team of architects in direct collaboration with civil and mechanical engineers, construction managers, lighting designers, landscape designers and real estate experts.
Pavlos Xanthopoulos
Co-Founder / Design Director
Pavlos Xanthopoulos, was born in Athens in 1979 and is a registered architect in Greece and the UK. He holds a Masters in Architecture and Urbanism, “Design Research Laboratory”, from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London (2007), after having previously studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (2004).
From 2007 to 2009 he worked for Zaha Hadid Architects in London, and in 2010 he co-founded Ahylo, an architectural design and construction practice, together with Ezio Blasetti and Ioulietta Zindrou.
In 2016 he founded Xanthopoulos Architecture, an architecture and design firm, with the ambition to provide high-end design and architectural ideas in projects that will result in unparalleled experiences for his team and his clients.
In 2023 Xanthopoulos Architecture merged with Potential Real Estate Development and X Collective as a new brand was created, sharing common values and showcasing architecture in various projects. In parallel, construction and real estate development are linked to X Collective and have been added as scopes of business having however the seamless architecture as a lighthouse and the beginning of everything.
Alex Michalas
Co-Founder / Development Director
Alex Michalas, was born in Athens in 1979 and is a certified real estate broker in Greece. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Leisure Management and in Marketing from the University of Alberta in Canada (2001).
He has worked in the private sector for Elgeka Logistics firm and in 2007 he founded Potential Real Estate Development. The company had a wide range of services including real estate brokerage, real estate consulting, real estate management and real estate investment.
An enthusiast for real estate projects, he brings his passion and knowledge in the field combined with hard work aiming only for the top. Optimistic with objectivity and measured results, he managed to expand his firm and has taken it a lot further exploring new areas and facing new challenges. His work ethic and his relentless passion for excellence are the things that drive him the most.
In 2023 Potential Real Estate Development merged with Xanthopoulos Architecture and X Collective as a new brand was created, sharing common values and showcasing architecture in various projects. In parallel, construction and real estate development are linked to X Collective and have been added as scopes of business having however the seamless architecture as a lighthouse and the beginning of everything.
