Demetri Porphyrios
Demetri Porphyrios ( Greek Δημήτρης Πορφύριος Dimitris Porfyrios , * 1949 ) is a Greek architect and head of Porphyrios Associates. He is a professor at the Yale School of Architecture .
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Although he was a modern architect by training (he wrote a dissertation on Alvar Aalto ), Porphyrios advocates historicist architecture in the tradition of the old master builders. His buildings can be assigned to neo-Gothic and neoclassicism , and in terms of material selection and design language are very strictly based on historical buildings, for which he was awarded the Driehaus Architecture Prize .
He worked on publications with the post-modern architect Léon Krier .
His projects are mainly in Greece and the United Kingdom. In Germany he built in Berlin and Frankfurt (Hotel Villa Kennedy ).
literature
- Demetri Porphyrios: Classical Building . German publishing house, 1993.
- Demetri Porphyrios: Sources of Modern Eclecticism . Academy Editions, London 1982.
- Demetri Porphyrios: Selected Buildings & Writings (Architectural Monographs No. 25). Academy Editions, London 1993.
- Demetri Porphyrios: Building and Rational Architecture . Academy Editions, London.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Porphyrios, Demetri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Πορφύριος, Δημήτρης (Greek); Porfyrios, Dimitris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |