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A row of typical Athenian modernist apartments
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How Athens’ modernist polikatoika came to define its mixed social fabric

Adapted from one of Le Corbusier’s frameworks, the Dom-Ino system, the polikatoikia are Athens’ ubiquitous apartment blocks, built from the 1950s to the1980s. Simple principles for good living Remarkably, they helped the Greek capital to achieve high levels of social mixing thanks to a few key decisions: solid overall construction Read more…

By rmlfvr, 6 months6 months ago
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Neri Oxman on the fundamentals of her practice at MIT Media Lab

It’s in the second season of Netflix’s documentary on design practitioners, Abstract, that Neri Oxman appears. In the episode, she tells the story of her practice mixing fundamental school of thoughts, from art and science to design and engineering, and how she sees them crossing paths naturally. As a leader Read more…

By rmlfvr, 1 year7 months ago
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