Dimitris N. Karidis

Professor Emeritus, National Technical University of Athens

Dimitris N. Karidis is an architect and urban historian, Professor Emeritus of National Technical University of Athens.

BOOKS BY THIS CONTRIBUTOR

Schinkel ‘in Athens’: Meta-Narratives of 19th-Century City Planning

Dimitris N. Karidis

This book offers a fresh appraisal of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s urban design legacy and his involvement in the design of modern Athens in the 1830s. It challenges the common perception of Schinkel’s proposed palace atop the Acropolis of Athens (1834) as a utopian scheme, detached from the realities of nineteenth-century Greece. READ MORE

Paperback: £44.00 | eBook: £16.00

Athens from 1920 to 1940

Dimitris N. Karidis

During the short interwar period of the early 20th century, Athens entered into a process of meteoric urban transformation which gave her a unique place among European capital cities of the time. READ MORE

Paperback: £34.00 | eBook: £16.00

Athens from 1456 to 1920

Dimitris N. Karidis

Architectural and urban analysis of Athens between 1456 and 1920 discloses the metamorphosis of a town to a city, experienced as an invigorating adventure through the meandering routes of history. READ MORE

Paperback: £35.00 | eBook: £16.00

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