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Griechische Architekten And we shall assuredly not be without witnesses; there are mighty monuments of our power which will make us the wonder of this and of succeeding ages Pericles' Funeral Oration (Thucydides 2.35-46)
Stamatis Kleanthis (Σταμάτιος Κλεάνθης) (1802 Kozani-1862 Athens) student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Byzantine Museusm (Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, the Duchess of Plaisance in 1840), city planning of Athens with Schaubert.
Lysandros Kaftanzoglou (Λύσανδρος Καυταντζόγλου )(1812-1885), Arsakeion Megaron, the buildings of the Polytechnic School and many churches (Agios Georgios Karytsis , Agia Eirini ...) , His son Lysimachos Kaftantzoglou provided the money for the Kaftanzoglio Stadium John Chronis (1799-1879) Corfu, The Capodistria Mansion, the Ionian Bank, the former Ionian Parliament, and the Churches of All Saints and St. Sofia.
Aristotelis Zachos (Αριστοτέλης Ζάχος )(1871 or 72 ? Kastoria -1939 Athens), Architect, various churches such as of Agios Nikolaos in Volos and many other buildings in Ioannina, Thessaloniki, Athens. Although open to modern ideas of architecture he used Byzanztine and traditional Greek elements (decribed as hellenocentric modernism)
Konstantinos Kitsikis (Athens, 1893-1969), founding member of the International Union of Architects, member of a committee for the reconstruction of Thessaloniki after the 1917 great fire together with Aristotelis Zachos. Anastasios Metaxas, (27.2.1862 – 28.1.1937) Benaki Museum, French Embassy, Kallimarmaro Stadium Athens Alexander Nikoloudis (18.3.1874 Leros – 17.11.1944 Athens ) Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris (Info) Dimitris Pikionis (Δημήτρης Πικιώνης)(1887-1968), NTUA Professor ,http://www.sadas-pea.gr/Pikionis.htm (Ta NEA in Greek), (also an artist some of his drawings), Texts about Pikionis Emamnouel Kriezis (1880-1968) redesigned the interior of the Greek Parliament building Athanasios Demiris (Αθανάσιος Δεμίρης )(1887 Mytilini – 1965 Athens) (Info) Kostas Biris (1899-1980) Alexander Dragoumis (2.12.1891 Athens – 23.9.1977 Athens ) (Info) Panos Nikolis Tzelepis (1894-1976) Nikolaos Mitsakis (1899-1941), R. Koutsouris (1901-1998), Kyriakoulis Panayotakos (1902 Athens – 2.1.1982 Athens ), (Info) Elias Skroumbelos Elias Papayannopoulos Ioannis Despotopoulos (1903-1993), Patroklos Karantinos (Πάτροκλος Καραντινός ) (1903-1976), Architect of the Archaeological Museums of Thessaloniki, Herakleion and Olympia Vasilis Kassandras (1904-1973) Vasilis Douras (1904-1981), Stamos Papadakis (1906-1993), CIAM-Group Ioannis Papadakis Kyprianos Biris (1907-1990), P. Michailidis (1907-1942), Th. Valentis (1908-1982), I. Saporta (1911-1998), Constantinos A. Doxiadis, (1913-28.6.1975 ) son of Apostolos and Evanthia (Mezeviri) Doxiadis, the greatest architect and cityplanner of Greece (Info) (http://www.ekistics.org ) Architecture In Transition (PDF Book 22 MB) Aris Konstantinidis (Άρης Kωνσταντινίδης) (1913-16. 9.1993) (Info) (Ta NEA in Greek) “Tο πρωί της 16ης Σεπτεμβρίου 1993, η Aστυνομία, ειδοποιημένη από ενοίκους των γύρω πολυκατοικιών, βρήκε νεκρό το σώμα του "πρωτομάστορα της ελληνικής αρχιτεκτονικής" Άρη Kωνσταντινίδη στον ακάλυπτο χώρο ενός διαμερίσματος στον αριθμό 4 της λεωφόρου Bασιλίσσης Σοφίας, όπου ζούσε μόνος, ανάμεσα σε χιλιάδες βιβλία. H αστυνομία είχε μιλήσει τότε για "ηθελημένη πτώση" ( Istoria ) Aristomenis Provelegios (Αριστομένης Προβελέγγιος)(1914 Athens -29.10.1999) (Info in Greek) a student of Pikionis (More Info in Greek) Giorgos Skiadaresis (1919) Yannis Liapis (1922-1993) Nikos Valsamakis (Nίκος Bαλσαμάκης ) (17.7.1924 ) Soula Tzakou (1928) Dimitris Antonakakis (22.12.1933 Chania/Crete) Alexandros Zanos Alexandros Tombazis (Ta NEA in Greek) Anthony C Antoniades (Αντώνης Κ. Αντωνιάδης) Takis Zenetos (Τάκης Ζενέτος) (1926 Athens - 28.6.1977 Athens) Info Zoi Samourka Mies van der Rohe Award Nikos A. Salingaros A Week With Nikos Salingaros (Word File) Demetri Porphyrios (1949) one of the world's leading traditional-style architects , Princeton's sixth residential college
Costas Kondylis, (Κώστας Κονδύλης) (b. Belgian Congo/Africa)NY architect working for Donald Trump (Info) Trump World Tower, highest non commercial building in New York, Bridge Tower Place NY, The Palisades - Fort Lee New Jersey ,240 Riverside Boulevard at Trump Place,The Lyric (Symphony Space), River Place I ,The Chesapeake etc...a total of around 60 large buildings around 2 each year since he lives in the States. Greek Architect Shapes New York Skyline, Envisions a New Athens Alexander Tzannes, Australian architect of Greek ancestry Sokratis Georgiadis (1949) Professor of architectural and design history at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart IZTK formerly curator of the Sigfried Giedion Archive at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, (Space, place, cyberspace German) John Peponis (1955 Athens) Manolis Korres ,Doctor of Architecture - Engineering (National Technical University of Athens), Parthenon expert, since 1975 studies on the structural restoration of the Acropolis monuments. He and his team have identified thousands of Parthenon fragments from about some 70000 pieces of stone scattered about the Acropolis Nonda Katsalidis Melbourne Ian Potter Museus , The Eureka Tower (Fender and Katsalidis), 92 stories tall with a total height of 300 meters (984 feet), located in Melbourne, Australia, the tallest residential building in the world (http://www.aecbytes.com/feature/EurekaTower.htm ) Iannis Xenakis (Γιάννης Ξενάκης) (29.5.1922 (actually not certain it can be even 1921) Braila/Romania – 4.2.2001) (Son of Clearchos Xenakis and Photini Pavlou), although an architect more famous as a composer. PHILIPS Pavilion on the WORLD EXPO 58 in Brussels , Iannis Xenakisis' Polytopes. Composer not only of electronic music but he was a pioneer in electronic and computer music, and he is famous for his stochastic and mathematical techniques. “He claimed that his fascination with sound masses was inspired by the noises of street fighting in Athens during the war, with the combined din of mobs shouting, motorized vehicles, and machine–gun fire” (Matthew Ostrowski). Xenakis was a member of the resistance against Nazi Germans, Italians and British from which he had a wound in his face. The right Greek government considered him as a terrorist and he survived to be killed by crossing the borders with a falsified Passport under the name Konstantin Kastrounis. He went to France where he mainly worked the rest of his life. Xenakis, Reynolds, Lansky and Mache discuss Computer Music Metastasis, Ais, The Goddess Athena, Psappha. “In 1991, he completed a computer program that generates an entire musical piece, i.e. all sound and structure, "from nothing", by algorithmic computation only. It is thus a rare instance of what could be called a "computable music". (Hoffmann: Mapping Mathematics to Sound: The Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis by Iannis Xenakis ) The aesthetics of his early works William (Bill) Katavolos , architect, designer (T-chair 3LC) Interior Design John Stefanidis from Alexandria designer among other his clients are Lord Jacob Rothschild, the Duke and Duchess of Westminster, Ann Getty, Leslie Wexner and Galen Weston., etc. etc. Nicos Zographos. furniture, architecture and architectural interior design See also Alexander "Greek" Thomson (1817-1875) an Scottish architect with Greek architecture elements in his work. Salingaros on Tschumi response to the socialistic movement party PASOKs idea for the Acropolis Museum Other Manolis (Manny) Velisavakis (Μανόλης Βεληβασάκης) The Cretan who designs the tallest buildings of the world , Petronas Tower (Greek Version)
Stathatos Mansion , Ernst Ziller References The New Charter of Athens 1998 Hellenic Institute of Architecture , International Confederation of Architectural Museums, Benaki Museum: Documentation Center for Neo-hellenic Architecture Archives Greek Revival Architecture , Greek Architects - Website (in Greek) English Version (not complete) http://www.heliarch.gr/indexen.htm HELLENIC INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE http://www.heliarch.gr/arxitektoniki.htm Gennaro Postiglione, One Hundred Houses for One Hundred European Architects of the Twentieth Century. Peter Gössel (ED) Modern European Architecture Museum NET Athens contemporary architecture Ancient Greek Architecture , City Planning and Buildings Town Planning , The Tunnel of Eupalinos , The Port of Amathus in Cyprus The Colossus of Rhodes , The Lighthouse or "Pharos" in Alexandria The Tower of Winds , The Parthenon and the Acropolis , The Erechtheion Planning, the Urban System and New Forms of Inequality in Greek Cities
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