The exhibition develops the theme with 18 portraits, 12 from Germany and 6 from Greece. It begins with the pioneers who around 1900 were the first women to study Architecture and pioneered their efforts to establish themselves in what was then a male-dominated profession.
The characteristic bells of Asteras Vouliagmenis that have starred in many Greek films, the strange for its time long workers' apartment building in the district of Filoppapos, the National Bank building in Syngrou, the characteristic buildings of many branches of the 60s, the library of School of fine arts, are works of female architects.
These women, the oldest students of Pikionis and heroic students of the Polytechnic in a male-dominated environment, as well as their contribution, star in the exhibition Frau Architekt, A century and more: Women in Architecture organized by the Goethe-Institut Athen from May 10 to June 10, 2021 in collaboration with the German Museum of Architecture in Frankfurt and the Archives of Modern Greek Architecture of the Benaki Museum.
The exhibition presents female architects in Germany and Greece. Women who significantly influenced architecture and are still making their mark today. The exhibition examines their history as well as their current situation, their achievements, their daily reality and their struggle to establish equal professional opportunities.
The exhibition develops the theme with 18 portraits, 12 from Germany and 6 from Greece. It begins with the pioneers who around 1900 were the first women to study Architecture and pioneered their efforts to establish themselves in what was then a male-dominated profession. It concludes with the history of architecture in the period after the Fall of the Wall and with exemplary protagonists of the sector from Berlin and Athens.
Through portraits, project samples and personal stories of female architects from Germany and Greece, the role of women in architecture gains the visibility it deserves.
Through portraits, project samples and personal stories of female architects from Germany and Greece, the role of women in architecture gains the visibility it deserves. These portraits are snapshots of the history of female presence in a profession – architecture – and part of the history of 20th and early 21st century architecture in both Germany and Greece. It was presented for the first time at the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt (DAM) and in April it opens in Athens with the addition of the Hellenic Capital.
This exhibition is part of a recent wider international initiative to revise modern architectural history in order to more fairly reflect the contribution of women. The historiographic revision will gradually enrich our understanding of modern architecture. At the same time, however, it poses new theoretical problems that mainly revolve around the way in which we should approach this contribution.
The works will be framed by a parallel program with an emphasis on the part of the exhibition that concerns Greek architects (discussions between experts, architectural tours of the city). More information about her side program will be announced soon.
The Greek architects are Alexandra Paschalidou-Moreti, Anastasia Tzakou, Marika Zagorisiou, Elli Vassilikioti, Suzana Antonakaki and Rena Sakellaridou.
Alexandra Paschalidou – Moreti
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Alexandra Paschalidou-Moreti was born in Istanbul in 1912 and died in Athens in 2010. Architect, painter and sculptor with her family arriving in Athens in 1925. She was brought up in an urban family environment with many architects and painters from the previous generation. Her own generation (56 first cousins) produced many artists such as the sculptor Yiannis Pappas and the painters Eleni Pangalou, Andreas Vourloumis and Eleni Paschalidou (later the wife of the sculptor Giorgos Zoggolopoulos).
In 1932 she was admitted to the architecture school of the National Technical University of Athens (E.M.P.) from where she graduated in 1936 as the seventh chronologically female architect in Greece. He spoke English, French and Italian. In 1936, after her graduation, together with her fellow students Dimitris Moretis (later her husband) and Giorgos Giannoulelis, she undertook the preparation of a thesis on the systematic recording and study of the architecture and folk art of Greek houses under the supervision of the professor of E .M.P., Dimitris Pikionis. In this way, Alexandra Paschalidou will participate in the first recording of the traditional folk architecture and decoration of the houses of the 18th and 19th centuries in the regions of Western Macedonia, Epirus, Thessaly, Pindos and the Cyclades.
In 1938, at the age of just 26, he organized the Greek Pavilion at the Berlin International Exhibition. The following year, together with Dimitris Moretis, he designed and edited, for the Ministry of Press and Tourism, the Greek Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. The Moretis couple would continue to design and organize the Greek pavilions (135 in total) at international exhibitions, also displaying the work of various Greek artists such as Nikos Hatzikyriakos-Gikas, Spyros Vassiliou and Voula Papaioannou until 1969, when during of the dictatorship declared their resignation from the Greek government. From the 1970s, Alexandra Moretis began her systematic engagement with microsculpture.
Anastasia Tzakou
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Anastasia Dzakou was born in 1928. She studied at the Department of Architectural Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. Among others, he had a teacher, Dimitris Pikionis, whom he particularly admired and was significantly influenced by him. As soon as he graduated (1952) he worked in his office and participated in important studies.
Pikionis secured her a scholarship to France and in 1954 she studied at the Claireau Center of Crafts and Applied Arts, located in the Chevreuse Valley, 26 kilometers southwest of Paris. There he studied under the sculptor Filolaos Tloupa and specialized in decoration, pottery and Art History. He then settled in Paris and did postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne University. In Paris he had the opportunity to work with distinguished French architects.
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During the time he worked in the office of Guy Lagneau, he came into contact with modern architecture as well as with other students of the School of Fine Arts, such as Takis Zeneto, and he closely followed the artistic life of Paris. He was influenced by the work of the German architect Mies van der Rohe, which he considered simple, but at the same time very functional, with a strong geometric aesthetic, without unnecessary decoration.
In 1957 he returned to Greece and worked in the office of Constantinos Doxiadis in Beirut until the summer of 1959, upon the latter's invitation. There, she designed and made her own furniture for the house where she lived and applied what she learned in Paris. He started working in the Technical Service of the National Bank of Greece and undertook the construction of branches.
In 1981 she was appointed professor of Building Science at the National Technical University of Athens. From 1986 she stopped working and began to deal amateurishly with various subjects of her specialty. He died in 2015.
Marika Zagorisiou
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Marika Zagorisiou was one of the most important Greek architects. He was born in Kavala in 1921. He studied at the Practical High School of Kavala (1932-1938). He took exams at the EMP School of Architecture, passed and settled in Athens. He was only 17 years old. A 1943 graduate, she was one of 12 women to graduate from the school's founding in 1921 to 1945.
A student of Orlandos and Pikionis from the years of her studies, she already works as an assistant to Kostas Mpiris in the Municipality of Athens, capturing and designing the neoclassical buildings of Athens. In 1943 he graduates and is appointed to the Ministry of Public Works and the Deputy Ministry of Reconstruction.
In Rebuilding, she meets Konstantinos Doxiadis, an acquaintance-station in her life, as a few years later, in 1955, she will be appointed to the Doxiadis Office (Athenian Center for Housing, Athenian Institute of Technology), where for about 20 years she will deal with spatial planning, housing , urban planning and building studies in Greece, Iraq, Pakistan, Zambia and elsewhere.
The issues with her descriptions, photographs, drawings, comments, notes, which today belong to the ANA of the Menakis Museum, are unique documents of research, methodology, experience and scientific knowledge through a profoundly human and social perspective. Particularly important, always in the context of her work at the Athenian Housing Center, is her participation in the research "Ancient Greek Cities" which was published in 24 volumes. At the same time, he studies the popular architecture of Crete and Lesvos.
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In 1977, after leaving the Doxiadis office, as part of her work at the EOT for the selection of traditional buildings of Dimitsana for repair and arrangement in EOT guesthouses, she studies the traditional architecture of the area. Three excellent books emerged from her research, "Traditional Architecture of Lesbos" (TEE, 1995), "Folk Architecture in Crete" (Mpenaki Museum - 1996) and "Traditional Architecture of Dimitsana" (Mpenaki Museum - 1997). . In fact, the last two, of Crete and Dimitsana, were awarded by the Academy of Athens (1998) following a proposal by the academic Pavlos Mylonas. He died in 2013.
Elli Vasilikiotis
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Very little information can be found in open archives about Elli Vasilikioti whose best-known project is the apartment building in Asirmatos (Filopappou district), a moored, slightly curved, 5-storey ocean liner with 55 apartments and 9 shops, with common areas and services and , in fact, with an apartment building regulation published in the Official Gazette (586B/20-8-1970).
An apartment building for low incomes, with great architectural value. The architect Elli Vasilikioti (Nicolaidi) was born in Corfu in 1923. She graduated from the School of Architecture of the NTUA in 1948. Between 1948-1951 she worked at the Ministry of Reconstruction. Then, and until 1958, he worked as a freelancer in the Middle East (Jordan). In 1959 he took up service at the Ministry of Public Works. He died in 2015.
Susana Antonakaki
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Suzana Antonakaki was born in 1935 in Athens and studied at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens from 1954 to 1959. Since then she collaborated with her partner Dimitris Antonakakis, undertaking most of her projects with him.
Suzana Antonakaki comes from a generation of architects who witnessed the important works of Aris Konstantinidis and took lessons from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's student and friend James Speyer. It is no coincidence, after all, that in her works, especially the first ones, the influence of these two great architects can be seen quite clearly. Her work, always in collaboration with her partner Dimitris Antonakakis, is a combination of Greek and foreign modernism, tradition and modernity.
He was a founding member of Atelier 66, a member of the Board of the Association of Architects of Graduate Schools (SADAS), 1971-1972 and president of the Architects section of the Technical Chamber (1982-84). Founding member of the architectural firm A66 (1987) and B66 (1991). Corresponding member of the French Academy of Architecture (Academie d' Architecture), 1995. He was a member of the National Secretariat of the UIA. Participated in conferences and meetings (Cairo, Nicosia, Brighton, Paris, Berlin, Montreal, Chicago). Guest Lecturer and was a member, at the invitation of Professor Herman Hertzberger, of the teaching team of the International Design Seminar 1987 at the Faculty of Architecture of TU Delft and in 1988 in Split
. Member of the National Secretariat and Jury of Europan 1989. Her works and texts are listed in the International Archive of Women in Architecture (iawa) VP & SU Virginia. Their projects are the Archaeological Museum of Chios, 1965, the Philosophical School of Crete, 1981 and the Polytechnic of Crete, 1982, Redevelopment of Kolonaki Square, 2003, Ano Patision Railway Station, 2003.
Rena Sakellaridou
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Rena Sakellaridou studied architecture at AUTH, in Vancouver, (MArch UBC, UBC Fellowship, W.Gerson Prize), and in London, (PH.D Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning UCL, supervisor Bill Hillier, IKY Scholarship). Her research interests are meaning in architecture (March), the logic of architectural composition and the architectural idiom (Ph. D).
She is a professor of architectural design at the School of Architecture of AUTH. He deals with architectural practice with an emphasis on large-scale complex buildings, writes on architectural composition, studies creativity and teaches design.
He has more than 80 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings. He is a founding member of the SPARCH office (www.sparch.gr). The work of the office he maintains with Morpho Papanikolaou has been exhibited in 37 exhibitions, (VeniceBiennale, Milan Triennale, DAM Frankfurt, NAi Rotterdam, RIBA London, as well as in Paris, Montreal, Tokyo, Barcelona and Moscow among others).
They have won more than 20 international and national architectural awards. Most important buildings: AUTH Library Extension, Karatza Mansion, National Insurance Complex, New Bank Buildings, Gate and Astir Palace Housing. She is now active in her personal office RS SPARCH.
Information:
Duration: May 10 – June 10, 2021*
Opening hours: Monday-Thursday, 9:00 – 16:00
At the Goethe-Institut Athen (Foyer & Atrium 1st floor)
Omiro 14-16, Tel. 210 36 61 000
The German Architecture Museum exhibition was curated by Mary Pepchinski, Christina Budde, Wolfgang Voigt
The Greek part of the exhibition was edited by Christina Papadimitriou
Exhibition design at the German Museum of Architecture: Deserve Wiesbaden, Mario Lorenz, Laura Risse
Adaptation of exhibition design for Athens: Grace Studio Athens
Source: lifo.gr