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How Athens’ modernist polikatoika came to define its mixed social fabric

How Athens’ modernist polikatoika came to define its mixed social fabric

by rmlfvr | Jul 18, 2020 | Architecture

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...

Neri Oxman on the fundamentals of her practice at MIT Media Lab

by rmlfvr | Dec 23, 2019 | Architecture

Image: Netflix’s Abstract series on Neri Oxman 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...

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