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Modern Architectures in History

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Greece

Modern Architectures in History

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The remains of antiquity define Greek architecture in the popular imagination, but Greek edifices encompass far more than these ancient structures. Offered here is a comprehensive survey of modern Greek architecture of the past hundred-plus years. The book explores the buildings and architects of modern Greece, ranging from nineteenth-century neoclassical edifices to minimalist contemporary works and urban renewal projects. The ideas driving the creation of these buildings are given full attention, as the authors examine the influence of the rise of Modernism in the arts and the characteristics of regional styles, while also considering the reasons behind the bland, functional structures that have dominated Greek cityscapes since World War II. Greece situates this design survey within the nation's tumultuous cultural and political history, including the two world wars, a military dictatorship, civil war, and the consumerist boom of the 1990s.
A penetrating and thorough study, Greece offers a compelling account of modern Greek architecture that will be invaluable for all scholars of design and European history.

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References

Introduction

1 Leo von Klenze, ‘Memorabilien’, II (1838), pp. 64–5, quoted in Αλέξανδρος Παπαγεωργίου-Βενετάς, O Leo von Klenze στην Ελλάδα (Athens, 2000), pp. 107–8. Klenze’s ‘Memorabilien’, kept in the Bavarian Library of Munich, is rich in architectural, cultural and political observation. Venetas has made an excellent selection and translation in Greek of parts that refer to Greece.
2 ‘Ελλη Σκοπετέα, To ‘Πρότυπο Βασίλειο’ και η Μεγάλη Ιδέα: όψεις του εθνικού προβλήματος στην Ελλάδα 1830–1880 (Athens, 1988), pp. 21–49.
3 Sia Anagnostopoulou, ‘“Tyranny” and “Despotism” as National and Historical Terms in Greek Historiography’, in Clio in the Balkans: The Politics of History Education, ed. Christina Koulouri (Thessaloniki, 2002), pp. 81–90.
4 Κατερίνα Μυστακίδου, Η Μεγάλη Ιδέα στον Τύπο του Γένους: Ο Τύπος στην Ελλάδα και στην οθωμανική αυτοκρατορία 1800–1923 (Athens, 2004), p. 35.
5 A term borrowed from Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London, 1983). See Paschalis Kitromilidis, ‘“Imagined Communities” and the Origins of the National Question in the Balkans’, European History Quarterly, XIX/2 (1989), pp. 149–92, and Modern Greece: Nationalism and Nationality, ed. Martin Blinkhorn and Thanos Veremis (Athens, 1990).
6 Anagnostopoulou, ‘“Tyranny” and “Despotism” as National and Historical Terms’, pp. 81–90.
7 Richard Clogg, ed., Minorities in Greece (London, 2002).
8 As noted by Anastasios Orlandos in Αναστάσιος Ορλάνδος, ‘Αι ημέραι του συνεδρίου εν Ελλάδι’, Τεχνικά Χρονικά, 44–46 (1933), p. 1002.
9 ‘Ελλη Σκοπετέα, To «Πρότυπο Βασίλειο» και η Μεγάλη Ιδέα.’Οψεις του εθνικού προβλήματος στην Ελλάδα 1830–1880 (Athens, 1988), p. 199.

chapter one: Architecture of Revolution

1 Kapodistrias is also known as Conte Capo d’Istria (1776–1831). See also Christopher Montague Woodhouse, Capodistria: The Founder of Greek Independence, 1821–1829 (London, 1973).
2 Iωάννης Καποδίστριας, Κείμενα, ed. Κώστας Δαφνής (Athens, 1976).
3 Μάρω Καρδαμίτση -Αδάμη, ‘Οι πρώτοι Έλληνες Μηχανικοί’, Τεχνικά Χρονικά, 4 (October–December 1988), pp. 63–8.
4 Όλγα Μπαδήμα-Φουντουλάκη, Κλεάνθης 1802–1863 (Athens, 2001); Αλέξανδρος Παπαγεωργίου-Βενετάς, Εδουάρδος Σάουμπερτ 1804–1860 (Athens, 1999).
5 Μάρω Καρδαμίτση-Αδάμη, ‘Οι πρώτοι Έλληνες Μηχανικοί’, Τεχνικά Χρονικά, 4 (October– December 1988), pp. 63–8; Anne Marie Claire Godlewska, Geography Unbound: French Geographic Science from Cassini to Humboldt (Chicago, 1999). See also Το Έργο της Γαλλικής Επιστημονικής Αποστολής του Μοριά, 1829–1838, Α’ Μέρος, Τμήμα Φυσικών Επιστημών, επιμέλεια Γιάννης Σαΐτας (Αθήνα 2011); simultaneously published in French and English editions: L’Œuvre de l’ Expédition Scientifique de Morée, 1829–1838, Première Partie, Section des Sciences Physiques, ed. Yanis Saitas, trans. Jeanne RoquesTesson and Marcel Durand; The Work of the French Scientific Expedition to the Morea, 1829–1838, Part I, Natural Sciences Section, ed. Yanis Saitas, trans. John C. Davis.
6 Nauplion, 3 October 1829. Iωάννης Καποδίστριας, Κείμενα, ed. Kώστας Δαφνής (Athens, 1976).
7 Κική Καυκούλα, Νίκος Παπαμίχος and Βίλμα Χαστάογλου, Σχέδια πόλεων στην Ελλάδα του 19ου αιώνα (Thessaloniki, 1990).
8 Θωμάς Δρίκος, Οι πωλήσεις των Οθωμανικών Ιδιοκτησιών της Αττικής 1830–1831 (Athens, 1994), pp. 41 and 142.
9 Georgios Katakouzinos quoted in Θωμάς Δρίκος, Οι πωλήσεις των Οθωμανικών Ιδιοκτησιών της Αττικής 1830–1831 (Athens, 1994), p. 113.
10 Γιώργος Δερτιλής, Ελληνική Οικονομία και Βιομηχανική Επανάσταση 1830–1910, (Athens, 1984), p. 125.
11 Hans Hermann Russach, Deutsche Bauen in Athen (Berlin, 1942).
12 Γεώργιος Πανέτσος, ‘Η συγκρότηση του αθηναϊκού νεοκλασικισμού’ in Αθήναι. Από την Κλασική Εποχή έως Σήμερα, eds, X. Mπούρας, M.B. Σακελλαρίου, K. Στάικος, E. Tουλούπα (Athens, 2000).
13 Αλέξανδρος Παπαγεωργίου-Βενετάς, Εδουάρδος Σάουμπερτ 1804–1860 (Athens, 1999); Κωνσταντίνος Η. Μπίρης, ‘Η μετάθεσις της Καθέδρας εις τας Αθήνας’, Αθηναϊκαί μελέται, vol. II (Athens, 1939), pp. 18–21; General State Archives, Αρχείο Περιόδου Όθωνος, Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών, file 219, 16 (Nauplion 1830, September 1834).
14 Klenze comments on the confusion and conflicts of Otto’s court, 15 July 1835, in Leo von Klenze, ‘Memorabilien oder Farben zu einem Gemälde, welches sich die Nachwelt vom Könige Ludwig von Bayern machen wird’, undated manuscripts in the Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Klenzeana I, IVII, pp. 419–46.
15 Αλέξανδρος Παπαγεωργίου-Βενετάς, Ο Leo von Klenze στην Ελλάδα: Τεκμήρια για τη νεοελληνική ιστοριογραφία (Athens, 2000).
16 Leo von Klenze, ‘Memorabilien’, IVII, p. 419 (15 July 1835).
17 Letter to the Greek vice-regency, in Leo von Klenze, ‘Memorabilien’, IVII, pp. 419–46 (23 August to 3 September 1834).
18 Leo von Klenze, Aphoristische Bemerkungen gesammelt auf seiner Reise nach Griechenland (Berlin, 1838), pp. 484–7.
19 General State Archives, Αρχείο περιόδου Όθωνος, Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών, file 220, Athens.
20 Κωνσταντίνος Η. Μπίρης, ‘Η μετάθεσις της Καθέδρας εις τας Αθήνας’, Αθηναϊκαί - Μελέται, ιι(Athens 1939), pp.18–21. See also General State Archives, Αρχείο περιόδου Όθωνος, Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών, file 219, 16 (Nauplion 1830, September 1834) (on the transfer of the capital to Athens).
21 Oswald Hederer, Friedrich Von Gärtner 1792–1847. Leben–Werk–Schuler (Munich, 1976).
22 Hederer, Friedrich Von Gärtner, p. 199.
23 Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Baltimore, MD, 1958).
24 Hederer, Friedrich Von Gärtner, p. 190.
25 Leo von Klenze, Aphoristische Bemerkungen gesammelt auf seiner Reise nach Griechenland, pp. 355–6.
26 Hans Hermann Russach, Deutsche Bauen in Athen (Berlin, 1942).
27 Κανονιστικόν ‘Περί του Κτιρίου της Εθνικής Βιβλιοθήκης’, Εφημερίς της Κυβερνήσεως, άρθρον 1, 225 (Athens, 20 August 1886).
28 Όλγα Φουντουλάκη, ‘André Couchaud, ‘O αρχιτέκτων του Καστέλου της Ροδοδάφνης στην Πεντέλη’, Archeologia 112 (September 2009).
29 Παντολέων Καμπούρογλου, Ιστορία του Πειραιώς από του 1833–1882 έτους (Athens, 1883); Νικόλας Σ. Ντόριζας, Τα κτίρια του Πειραιά κατά τον 19ο αιώνα: δημόσια κτίρια και κατοικία (Athens, 1997); Λίζα Μιχελή, Πειραιάς: Από το Πόρτο Λεόνε στη Μαγχεστρία της Ανατολής (Athens, 1989), pp. 64–82 and 137–42.
30 Αχιλλέας Χατζόπουλος, Τα Καφενεία του Ελληνισμού (Athens, 2001); Άρτεμις Σκουμπουρδή, Καφενεία της παλαιάς Αθήνας (Athens, 2001).
31 Ιωάννης Τραυλός and Αγγελική Κόκκου, Ερμούπολη: Η δημιουργία μιας νέας πόλης στη Σύρο στις αρχές του 19ου αιώνα (Athens, 1980); Μάνος Ελευθερίου, ed., Νεοκλασσική Ερμούπολη (Athens, 1998); Χριστίνα Αγριαντώνη, Αγγελική Φενερλή...

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. one Architecture of Revolution
  8. two ‘Forward’: Infrastructure, City Plans and Buildings
  9. three Open Wide the Windows – Let the Sun Come In!
  10. four Hard Times: The Third Hellenic Civilization, War and Reconstruction
  11. five Halcyon Days
  12. six Architecture of the Junta
  13. seven Modern Architecture Comes of Age
  14. eight Whither Young Architect?
  15. References
  16. Select Bibliography
  17. Acknowledgements
  18. Photo Acknowledgements
  19. Index