ARCHITECTURE from DEMETRIUS SIATRAS

Herakleion: PEC 2005. Brand new. Bilingual (gr-en) edition. Soft cover, 30X25 cm, 376 pp., ill.

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[1500 Arch Bridges at Greece]. In greek. Hard cover, 25X29 cm, 600 pp., rich colour illustration, weight 3190 gr. Key words: greek popular architecture, bridges, stone constructions. // The shipping cost estimated by the system covers books up to 750 gr; if you are going to use PayPal for the payment, please ask about the exact shipping cost before ordering.

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EDEL, 2008. Brand new. Bilingual (greek-english) edition. Hard cover, 28x25 cm, 205 pp.

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Bilingual (greek-english) edition, soft cover, 27X25 cm, 192 pp., ill. Presents the work of A. Kotsiopoulos, Professor of Architecture at the University of Thessalonike.

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Corfu 2008. Brand new. Hard cover, 34 cm, 127 pp., ill.: mostly full page color plates. A marvellous album (text in english-german-russian-greek) presenting the magnificent palace of empress Elisabeth of Austria, also known as Sissi. The palace was built after a sungestion by Austrian Consul Alexander von Watzberg. Sissi was a woman obsessed with beauty and very powerful but tragically vulnerable since the loss of her only son, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria in the Mayerling affair in 1889. A year later in 1890, she built this summer palace, about ten kilometres to the south of the city of Corfu. The palace was designed with the mythical hero Achilles as its central theme. Sissi spoke Greek better than any of the Greek queens that were her contemporaries and she expressed a desire to further immerse herself in the Greek culture. Like every other European royal, she had some Byzantine emperors among her distant ancestors. The palace was designed by Italian architect Raffaele Caritto. Ernst Herter, a famous G... Read more

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[Antefixes and Memories]. In greek. Cloth+jacket, 29 cm, 188 pp., ill., weight 1030 g. The use and history of antefixes through the collections of the author.

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In english. Soft cover, 29X24 cm, 184 pp., ill.; weight 1160 gr. This fascinating volume offers an original contribution to the study of Aegean architecture in the Greek islands through the ages, from prehistory to the present. It brings together eleven original essays by noted scholars, and is richly illustrated with 320 original photographs. The four introductory chapters provide a comprehensive approach to the history of the Aegean as a single entity. The subsequent seven chapters, examining each group of islands individually (North Aegean & Sporades, East Aegean, Argosaronic Islands, Cyclades, Dodecanese, Crete), offer the reader a fresh perspective by assigning equal significance to every era. Aiming to document the architecture of these regions, the book incorporates, as an essential element, outstanding examples from the work of modern-day architects. // TABLE OF CONTENTS: Historical Review, by Ch. Bouras - Evolution of the Orders, by M. Korres - Decoration of Houses, by Angelos Delivorrias - The Aegea... Read more

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Hidryma Panagiote kai Efes Michele, 1990. Brand new. Soft cover, 21 cm, 265 pp.

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Athens: Melissa, 2009. Good. In greek. Soft cover, 39x29 cm, 250 pp.

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Libro, 2005. Brand new. Soft cover, 28x26 cm, 290 pp.

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Ion, 2005. Brand new. Bilingual (gr-en) edition; Soft cover, 22x22 cm, 176 pp.

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Diegese 2006. Brand new. Hard cover, 30x22 cm, 299 pp., ill. Key words: post-byzantine architecture, byzantine churches

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Asprimera, 2011. Brand new. Bilingual (gr-en) edition; Soft cover, 22 cm, 192 pp. This book presents the projects designed and fabricated during the apomechanes computational design studio in 2009 & 2010, supported by theoretical articles and professional projects by Karl Chu, Carla Leitao, Kokkugia and Ahylo, exploring computational design and its fields of materialization. Apomechanes is an international intensive studio held each summer in Athens, Greece. The studio is devoted to furthering techniques and concepts of algorithmic processes as means for design and fabrication. Algorithmic design introduces processes that allow the genetic growth of complex structures and forms, with the use of simple syntactic rules. Apomechanes is an attempt to set up a unique agenda on computational design methodologies and underline the morphogenetic qualitative characteristics of the algorithmic logic. Non-linear, self-organized and emergent behaviours are intravenous injected into the core of the architectural des... Read more

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[TRANSFORMATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE: Regional Greece, VOL. II]. In greek. Hard cover, 34x26 cm, 250 pp., ill.: 350 color photographs and drawings. Only the sky is the limit to the prospects imbedded in the reuse of old, abandoned buildings by the employment of imaginative, original design. Thus, palatial mansions could be transformed into museums, factories into cultural centres, and vernacular houses into sumptuous resort villas. Methods and goals may vary, but the end result is almost always breathtaking. This trend has gained unprecedented popularity across Greece during the last few decades. In view of a pressing need to find a balance between modernity and the re-appraisal of the past, many architects have become increasingly involved in challenging restorations and rehabilitations of historical buildings. The rich sediment of architectural remnants from the last four centuries has thus provided a remarkable variety of buildings to work with. Two volumes track, for the first time, the full extent of this u... Read more

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Rhizareion Hidryma, 2004. Brand new. Two volumes. Soft cover, 28 cm, 377 pp., ill.

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Politistiko Hidryma Omilou Peiraios, 2008. Brand new. Soft cover, 24 cm, 145 pp.

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Bilingual (greek-english) edition. Cloth, 43x33 cm, 160 pp., 100 photos. In order to grasp the spirit behind the work of the ISV architects group, one can simply pinpoint their influence on the modernist tendencies of contempor­ary Greek architecture. By gradually compiling and publishing a clear model of their architectural activity, which is tailored to the Greek landscape, they aim at claiming their position among the modern Greek architectural scenery. It might sound daring but the ISV group proposes a fully-formed way of living, which surpasses their purely design choices and directly addresses modern terms of accommodation. The book aims at capturing the impressive consistency and design homogeneity, but also the continuous ability for renovation which are integral characteristics of the ISV group. This aim is served in an ideal manner through the creatively penetrating depiction of selected works of the ISV group by Erieta Attali, a photographer of international activity and recognition, who managed t... Read more

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Techniko Epimeleterio Hellados, 2002. Brand new. Soft cover, 28 cm, 201 pp.

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Bilingual (greek-english) edition. Soft cover, 29x24 cm, 184 pp., ill., 1150 gr. Demetrios Issaias and Tassis Papaioannou are probably the most important architects of their generation. Their public and private buildings do not stand out for their regional character or the uncritical adoption of international paradigms. They follow a third way, between the objective narrative of structure and the reductive capacity of form, which forms the aspirations of regionality, integration, functions, handling of physical data, life habits, collective desires and construction possibilities with the ideological and design tools of the most progressive, politically and socially, postwar European avant-garde. Their starting point is the Greek modern movement of the 1930’s and the timeless example of Le Corbusier. They seek, however, to produce an architecture which is authentically Greek –therefore, universal as well– without being romantic or formalist, by following a road of design rigor and consistency, which was ... Read more

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[TRANSFORMATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE: Metropolitan Cities in Greece, vol. I]. In greek. Hard cover, 34x26 cm, 240 pp., ill.: 350 color photographs and drawings. // Only the sky is the limit to the prospects imbedded in the reuse of old, abandoned buildings by the employment of imaginative, original design. Thus, palatial mansions could be transformed into museums, factories into cultural centers, and vernacular houses into sumptuous resort villas. Methods and goals may vary, but the end result is almost always breathtaking. This trend has gained unprecedented popularity across Greece during the last few decades. In view of a pressing need to find a balance between modernity and the re-appraisal of the past, many architects have become increasingly involved in challenging restorations and rehabilitations of historical buildings. The rich sediment of architectural remnants from the last four centuries has thus provided a remarkable variety of buildings to work with. Tracking for the first time the full extent of t... Read more

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