
Exploring Athens’ Modern Heritage with Big Olive
NTUA Professor P. Tournikiotis presenting the Rethink Athens project to DARK Arkitekter, one of Norway’s leading architectural firms....
NTUA Professor P. Tournikiotis presenting the Rethink Athens project to DARK Arkitekter, one of Norway’s leading architectural firms....
Gruppenbild mit Tempel. Photo © Christoph Gantenbein “Timeless architecture carries a legacy, fits perfectly into the context, and gives...
The British Romantic poet Lord Byron (1788-1824) first arrived in Greece in 1809 at the tender age of 21, in search of adventure and...
by Stefano Serusi. This feature originally appeared in Cerchio Magazine. Translated from Italian by Yannis Zaras Valentina, on the...
Blue has a long and topsy-turvy history; first developed some 4,500 years ago in Egypt, it is believed to be the earliest artificial...
Xenia Motel at Meteora by Aris Konstantinidis (1960). Photo source: tourismlandscapes. The Glorious 50s & 60s – Until the 1950s, the...
“Creativity takes courage” – Henri Matisse Creativity takes courage, and the capacity to dare yourself inspires confidence. Confidence is...
The battle between what architects and planners hypothesized on their drawing boards and how the urban dwellers went on with carrying out...
Editor’s note: This guest blog post was written by Ciara Barrick a Literature and Ancient Greek student at the Richard Stockton College...
Scandinavians have brought many great things to mankind: the Nobel Prize, Abba, IKEA, Lego, and existentialism. But Greece’s relationship...
How could someone trace the literary and artistic history of a city through a walk, through specific sights and places, especially when...
A guided walking tour past some of Athens’ best modernist architecture devised and led by Big Olive. Modernism visited Athens in person...
Written by Alexander Clapp “If you haven’t seen Athens you’re a fool,” quipped Herakleides Kritikos. Twenty-three centuries later –...
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