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Grant Detail
Princeton University
Aris Konstantinidis:
The Building and the Land
Exhibition
Symposium/Lecture
This project focuses on the work of Aris Konstantinidis (1913-1993), one of the most significant figures in postwar Greek architecture, and will consist of an exhibition and a one-day colloquium.
Primary consideration will be given to the intimate relationship he developed between the building - as an act and as a final architecture object - and the landscape. Working consistently on the concept of a repetitive principle of construction and its relation to the topography and memory of the landscape, Aris Konstantinidis created a unique, almost mystical relationship between building and topos.
Striving for the "essential and communal", and further, for a "construction" that will "articulate the indoors and the outdoors in one unified space, a life vessel inhabiting each landscape", he eventually transcended the cultural context in which his work was embedded.
The intention is, through the exhibition of a selected number of projects, to make the work of Aris Konstantinidis, as yet largely unknown and unexplored, accessible to a larger audience. During the colloquium, distinguished scholars and architects will open the discussion to broader issues related to his work, such as the changing relationship of building to site, suggesting a "minor" but powerful paradigm.
Contact:
Cynthia Nelson
Princeton University
School of Architecture
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609-258-3737
Fax: 609-258-4740
Email: soa@princeton.edu
Principal Investigator(s):
Christine Boyer, Professor, Princeton University;
Marina Lathouri, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania;
Maurice Van Eljs, Architect
Project Subject:
Architecture-History and Design (European)
Special Focus Initiative:
Landscape Architecture
Chronological Period:
1950-1999
Completion Date:
Spring, 1998
Year Funded:
1996
Related keywords:
Greece
Landscape
Modern Architecture
Religious Architecture