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MODERN GREEK CONSTANTINOS A. DOXIADIS: TEXTS, DESIGN DRAWINGS, SETTLEMENTS Edited by Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis. Athens: Ikaros Publications. 2007. euro84
Head of a global architectural and urban planning consultancy unrivalled in its quality and scale, Doxiadis was born in a thriving Greek town in Bulgaria in 1913. In 1915 the family returned to live in Athens where his father, a successful paediatrician, became Minister of Relief in the liberal Greek Government of 1922.
A student of architecture in Athens, and later Berlin, Doxiadis had already begun his lifelong study of Ancient Greek cities, and translated Le Corbusier's writings into Greek, among other things, by the time he received his doctorate in Berlin in 1936. Already well connected, he travelled and lectured widely, returning to Athens on the eve of the second World War where he became leader of a resistance group at the same time as being appointed Director of the Town Planning Authority in Athens at the age of 25. He rose to the position of Deputy Minister of Reconstruction in post-war Athens until being sacked by...