Suzana Antonakaki (

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: Σουζάνα Αντωνακάκη; 25 June 1935 – 5 July 2020) was a Greek

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. Souzana (often written as Suzana in English) Maria Kolokytha was born in 1935 in Athens and studied at the School of Architecture of the

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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 "

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". She was a member of the 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

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's School of Architecture and at the

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in 1988. Suzana Maria Antonakaki died on 5 July 2020, in Athens, aged 85.

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