THE Christos Papoulias (1953-2024) one of the crucial essential Greek architects of his era with worldwide recognition. Working in his workplace in Anafiotika for 2 years, I had the chance to know his work and get to know him as an individual by means of our day by day contact.
He studied on the faculty of structure in Venice through the Nineteen Seventies, and as lecturers “holy monsters” of architectural thought, corresponding to Carlo Scarpa and Aldo Rossi. He typically spoke of his pupil expertise and his – typically on the identical day – practice journeys to central Europe to see an exhibition or hearken to lectures by French philosophers, actions that defined his want to see structure by means of a lens wider and in open dialogue with him. Modern Artwork, Historical past, Philosophy, Concept and Social Sciences.
The connection between structure and modern artwork was on the coronary heart of his work. Along with designing museums, galleries and artists’ properties, corresponding to these of Yiannis Kounellis or Brice Marden in Hydra, he has achieved what few architects have achieved: to current his architectural work in modern artwork exhibitions with a large scope international them, as documenta X in. Kassel (1997) or the Artwork Biennale in Venice (1999). Drawings from his works belong to the everlasting assortment of the Heart Georges Pompidou, and the essential publishing home Hatje Cantz revealed his e book “Hypertopos”.
He collaborated with G. Tzirtzilakis, G. Simaioforidis and T. Koumpis to publish the pioneering journal “Challenge”. The footprint of the journal within the discipline of tradition and humanities in our nation was nice, because it not solely offered subjects associated to structure, artwork and design in a bilingual version, however pioneered the exploration of the city tradition of Athens through the Nineteen Nineties. .
Athens was the second pole of his work. He grew up in Metaxourgeio, an space he returned to presenting a collection of sketches on the day by day lifetime of his youth. Nonetheless, his out-of-competition proposal for the New Acropolis Museum ended his relationship with Athens. His proposal was guided by the query “what sort of museum ought to the Acropolis Museum be”, believing that this concept was absent from the competitors programme.
Lastly, he survived this paradox. He liked Athens however lived as an ascetic in Anafiotika taking a look at it from afar. Due to his worldwide expertise, he understood and judged the tradition of recent Greece by means of its relationship with the remainder of the world, which made him uncomfortable, unhappy and offended, as if he noticed it lengthy earlier than the disaster coming.
So far as I’m involved, my apprenticeship with him was a catalyst and I thank him for the vigorous discussions we had.
* Loukas Bartatilas (Dr. des.) is a physician within the Historical past of Structure.