Ioannis Despotopoulos

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Ioannis Despotopoulos ( Greek Ιωάννης Δεσποτόπουλος also Jan Despo ; * January 7, 1903 in Chios ; † October 1, 1992 ) was a Greek representative of modern architecture of the 1930s and city ​​planner .

biography

His parents had come to Chios from Smyrna . In Chios he completed his school education.

From 1924 to 1925 he studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar under Hannes Meyer and in 1928 at the Royal Technical University of Hanover . In 1929 he obtained his diploma and worked briefly in Erich Mendelsohn's office in Berlin .

Back in Greece he worked as a freelance architect and was a co-founder, member and delegate of the Greek CIAM group from 1932 to 1956 . From 1942 to 1946 and from 1961 to 1967 he was Professor of Architectural Composition at the National Technical University, Athens . In the meantime he held a visiting professorship from 1947 to 1955 at the technical colleges in Gothenburg and Uppsala in Sweden and at Stockholm University . In 1959 he received first prize in an urban planning competition for the Athens Cultural Center. Only the Athens Conservatory (Ωδείο Αθηνών) (1969–85) was realized from this design. The building is one of the most interesting public buildings of the post-war period in Athens. In addition to his second professorship in Athens, he was appointed to the chair of urban planning at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1960 to 1965 .

Despotopoulos (Despo) was an extraordinary member of the architecture section of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (West) from 1964 to 1979 and a member from 1979 to 1992.

Executed buildings

The sanatoriums “Sotiria” / Athens , in Tripoli , Peloponnese and in Asvestochori near Thessaloniki were the first buildings of this type in Greece that were influenced by modernism.

  • Sotiria Sanatorium , Athens (1932–1935)
  • Chios Municipal Art Collection (1935–1936)
  • Tuberculosis Sanatorium Tripoli, Peloponnese (1936–1940)
  • Asvestochori sanatorium and social center, Thessaloniki (1937–1940)
  • Cultural centers in Sweden (1947–1960), among others in Umeå , Luleå , Stockholm-Kallhäll
  • Athens cultural center, competition 1st prize and commission (1959) of which execution at the Conservatory (1969–1985)

bibliography

  • Jan Despo: The ideological structure of the cities, lecture on the occasion of the Berlin Building Weeks held on September 15, 1966 in the Berlin Academy of the Arts . Mann, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-7861-6164-X .

About Ioannis Despotopoulos (Jan Despo)

  • To mystiko Axioma (Tο μυστικό αξίωμα), documentary by Spyros Papadopoulos (2006),

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contribution to Myrovolos about Ioannis Despotopoulos and the former municipal bathhouse of Chios (today's municipal art collection), September 16, 2006, Greek [1]
  2. ↑ [2] Academy of Arts, Berlin (West)
  3. ^ Tuberculosis Sanatorium Sotiria, Athens, Greek
  4. ↑ a b Illustration in Architecture in the Circle of the Arts - 200 Years of the Munich Art Academy, exhibition of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich [3]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 45 (.pdf 6.6 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.architekturmuseum.de  
  5. ↑ Athens Conservatory (Ωδείο Aθηνών), Greek
  6. ↑ Documentary Film Festival Thessaloniki 2007 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmfestival.gr
personal data
SURNAME Despotopoulos, Ioannis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Despo, Jan; Δεσποτόπουλος, Ιωάννης (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek architect and city planner
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Chios
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1992