The modern spirit was the most significant force in redefining architecture and art across Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. The versions of modernism in interwar Athens became meeting points for the creative forces of the time, alongside a social reality that sought "modernization" without renouncing history and traditions.
The urban apartment buildings in the center of Athens and the small single-family homes in the suburbs, the simple schools in all neighborhoods, and the social welfare buildings - sanatoriums, hospitals, children's cities - provided, alongside art and discourse, a measure of a collective effort that survives to this day.
We are once again turning our eyes to this era because we believe it still has much to tell us, more than what we already know, especially now that the demand for modernity is relevant again, as it was then.
The texts included are:
- Vasiliki Petridou: "Modern State, Modern Athens, Modern Architecture"
- Ilia Konstantopoulos: "The Lost Corner and the Number `3`"
- Tina Karali: "Greekness and Modernity in the Interwar Period: Transformations of Greekness from Esprit Nouveau to the 3rd Eye"
- Kostas Tsiabaos: "Towards an Architecture of the Gaze: Doxiadis's Dissertation and the Aesthetic Theories of Its Time"
- Aimilia Athanasiou: "Health Machines - Life Machines: The `Modern` Hospitals in Interwar Athens"
- Katerina ChatzikConstantinou: "Modern Versions of Health at the `Sotiria` Sanatorium"
- Stavros Martinos: "The Role of Stavros Papadakis in Organizing the 4th CIAM"
- Maro Kardamitsi - Adamis: "Is Yannis Lygizos Modern?"
- Vasilis Kolonas: "`Athenian` Modernism and the `School` of Thessaloniki: State and Private Initiative During Reconstruction (1920-1940)"
- Panagiotis Pangalos: "The Parthenon of Athens as a Work of Modern Architecture"
- Eleni Amerikanou, Panos Exarchopoulos: "Demolished and Altered Buildings of Modern Architecture in Interwar Athens"
- Alkistis P. Rodi: "Proposal for the Functional Sustainability of Interwar Apartment Buildings"
- Panagiotis Tournikiotis: "Greek Modernism and the Challenge of Change"
Manufacturer
- Authors
- Panagiotis Tournikiotis, Maro Kardamitsi - Adami, Vasiliki Petridou, Vasilis S. Kolonas, Ilias Konstantopoulos, Eleni Amerikanou, Panos Exarchopoulos, Panagiotis Pagalos, Katerina CHatzikonstantinou, Alkistis P. Rodi, Kostas Tsiampaos, Aimilia Athanasiou, Stayros Martinos, Tina Karali, Atalanti Eyripidou
- Publisher
- Futura
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 197
- Release Date
- 5/2010
- Publication Date
- 2010
- Award
- -
- Dimensions
- 15x24 cm
- Art Movement
- Modernism
- Art Albums
- Yes
- Subjects
- Architecture, Cinema
- ISBN-13
- 9789609489010
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