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Souzána Antonakáki
Suzana Antonakaki (Greek language, Greek: Σουζάνα Αντωνακάκη; 25 June 1935 – 5 July 2020) was a Greek architect. Souzana (often written as Suzana in English) Maria Kolokytha was born in 1935 in Athens and studied at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens from 1954 to 1959. She and her husband, Dimitris Antonakakis (born 22 December 1933), along with Eleni Gousi-Desylla, founded Atelier 66 in 1965 in Athens, often associated with the architectural movement called "critical regionalism". She was a member of the Académie d'architecture, French Academy of Architecture (Academie d 'Architecture) and the National Secretariat of the UIA. Antonakaki was invited by Herman Hertzberger to teach at the 1987 International Design Seminar of Delft University of Technology, TU Delft's School of Architecture and at the University of Split in 1988. Suzana Maria Antonakaki died on 5 July 2020, in Athens, aged 85. References 1930s bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens, Greece
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates and is the capital of the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. It was a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, and the home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. It is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely because of its cultural and political influence on the European continent—particularly Ancient Rome. In modern times, Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Greece. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
