The Naked and the Dressed

A “negation of the city” then is not what is missing from Athens. Its centre already seems to be a negation of the city and Athenians are currently seeking to understand and interpret its existing emptiness. The city is unable…

The city centre of Athens is an idiosyncratic void. Many older inhabitants abandoned it years ago. Some of the newcomers were dislocated during recent police operations. The city is changing constantly: there are many homeless people on…

But the most interesting condition for architecture in Greece is the one that is not attentively examined by professionals; the transformations that are taking place now will rule the practice of the city’s constructions in a wider…

“Athenian Trenches” tackle the city as a condition that operates with an apparent duality. On the one hand, what is stressed is the city’s current condition, which classifies Athens as the paradigmatic city in the era of…