GREEK TOWN BUILDING

Description

It is commonplce to repeat, that we live in an atomized society and a period of transition. In such unstable human conditions, all revered values are under trial-thus also in matters architectural.
The effective catchwords and slogans of the 1920’s-new, modern, contemporary, functional-are in need of reconsideration. For in the course of time, new grows old, modern declines to unfashionable, contemporry becomes historical but architecture-and in extension town and city planning and building-tends to be more or lessfunctional …..
Vernacural architecture and town building, as a social function and an art, is closely dependent and related to the society it serves and of all arts, the most bound to a country and its people. It reflects the customs, traditions, the conditions of life and the Κοσμοθεωρία (= Weltanschauung) of a community…….
CONTENTS

• PREFACE
• POINT OF VIEW
• ANCIENT GREEK TOWN BUILDING
• BYZANTINE TOWN BUILDING
• THE TOWN BUILDING ELEMENTS
• CONCLUSION
• APPENDIX, INDEX

226 pages / 17,5 x 24,5 cm / English