Papers by Anna Axaopoulou
‘Polykatoikia’- the Athenian apartment building- constitutes the modular unit, which seems to hav... more ‘Polykatoikia’- the Athenian apartment building- constitutes the modular unit, which seems to have produced, through its repetition, Post-war Athens. A multifold of factors linked to the way of production, the legal framework, the ‘promoted’ lifestyle, defined the main principles of polykatoikia’s generic architecture. In order to better understand what represents nowadays the majority of the building stock of the Athenian urban center, we go back to the first post-war decades, a period that precedes and prepares for the extensive ‘cloning’ of apartment buildings the coming years. At that time, polykatoikia emerged not only as a building type but also as a status symbol. ‘Architektoniki’, an expertized postwar architectural magazine aiming also at a broader public, was chosen as the medium through which we could revisit and reconstruct the forwarded perception of polykatoikia. Apart from being a documentation for the period, the magazine has contributed in constructing the collective imaginary around the polykatoikia – that of a multivalent ideal. The various publications act as different narratives highlighting our main issue of concern: they codify and reveal clues about the urban Model, its Rules and Norms, along with consulting the occupants with the Home Guide and promoting commercial Messages about the ‘ideal’ home.
The dissertation seeks to describe and recompose the urban myth via the representations of the magazine. Imprints of polykatoikia’s myth indicate, up to a great extent, the practice that followed the next decades.
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Papers by Anna Axaopoulou
The dissertation seeks to describe and recompose the urban myth via the representations of the magazine. Imprints of polykatoikia’s myth indicate, up to a great extent, the practice that followed the next decades.
The dissertation seeks to describe and recompose the urban myth via the representations of the magazine. Imprints of polykatoikia’s myth indicate, up to a great extent, the practice that followed the next decades.