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Dimitri Pikionis or Demetrios Pikionis (Piraeus
Piraeus

Piraeus is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece, and a municipality within Athens urban area, located 10 km southwest of its center....
 1887 -Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
 1968) was a major Greek
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 architect of the 20th century and had a considerable influence in Contemporary Greek Architecture. He was a founding member of the Association of Greek Art Critics, AICA-Hellas, International Association of Art Critics
International Association of Art Critics

The International Association of Art Critics was founded in 1950 to revitalize critical discourse, which suffered under Fascism during World War II....
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tudied civil engineering
Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a Professional Engineer discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings....
 at the National Technical University of Athens
National Technical University of Athens

The National Technical University of Athens , sometimes simply known as Athens Polytechnic, is among the oldest and most prestigious higher education institutions of Greece....
 and then continued his studies to Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 and Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
, in sculpture
Sculpture

Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
 and drawing
Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, marker pens, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint....
. Pikionis was back then introduced to the work of Paul Cezanne
Paul Cézanne

Paul C?zanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist Painting whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century....
 and became friends with Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico was an influential Surrealism and then Surrealist Greeks-Italian people Painting born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father....
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Dimitri Pikionis or Demetrios Pikionis (Piraeus
Piraeus

Piraeus is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece, and a municipality within Athens urban area, located 10 km southwest of its center....
 1887 -Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
 1968) was a major Greek
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 architect of the 20th century and had a considerable influence in Contemporary Greek Architecture. He was a founding member of the Association of Greek Art Critics, AICA-Hellas, International Association of Art Critics
International Association of Art Critics

The International Association of Art Critics was founded in 1950 to revitalize critical discourse, which suffered under Fascism during World War II....
.

Life and work

He studied civil engineering
Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a Professional Engineer discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings....
 at the National Technical University of Athens
National Technical University of Athens

The National Technical University of Athens , sometimes simply known as Athens Polytechnic, is among the oldest and most prestigious higher education institutions of Greece....
 and then continued his studies to Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 and Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
, in sculpture
Sculpture

Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
 and drawing
Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, marker pens, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint....
. Pikionis was back then introduced to the work of Paul Cezanne
Paul Cézanne

Paul C?zanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist Painting whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century....
 and became friends with Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico was an influential Surrealism and then Surrealist Greeks-Italian people Painting born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father....
 . Later he returned to Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 and architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
, and in 1925 undertook a lecturer position at the decoration department at the National Technical University of Athens
National Technical University of Athens

The National Technical University of Athens , sometimes simply known as Athens Polytechnic, is among the oldest and most prestigious higher education institutions of Greece....
. He has been often described as a critical regionalist and sometimes as a European modernist . Pikionis hasn't produced many works and the leitmotif
Leitmotif

A leitmotif is a recurring musical Theme , associated with a particular person, place, or idea. The word has also been used by extension to mean any sort of recurring theme, whether in music, literature, or the life of a fictional character or a real person....
 in his work has been, according to architecture historians, the epiphany, the contrast between bleached marble and sodden soil .

Legacy

Although he hasn't left many works, Pikionis is particularly famous in his homecountry for his article The Folk Art and us and his awarded landscaping
Landscaping

Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land, including but not limited to:# living organism, such as flora or fauna; or what is commonly referred to as gardening, the art and craft of growing plants with a goal of creating a beautiful environment within the landscape....
 work in the surrounding area of Acropolis
Acropolis

Acropolis literally means city on the edge . For purposes of defense, early settlers naturally chose elevated ground, frequently a hill with precipitous sides....
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Notable works

  • Lycabettus School
  • Moraitis mansion, Tzitzifies 1921-1923
  • Kotopoulis Theatre -1932
  • Primary School of Pefkakia -1932
  • Alternative School oF Thessaloniki -1933
  • Landscaping of the Acropolis
    Acropolis

    Acropolis literally means city on the edge . For purposes of defense, early settlers naturally chose elevated ground, frequently a hill with precipitous sides....
     surrounding area -1951-1957
  • Filothei playground -1961-1964
  • Hotel Xenia, Delphi
    Delphi

    Delphi is an archaeology site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis. Delphi was the site of the Pythia, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, when it was a major site for the worship of the god Apollo after he slew the Python , a deity who lived there and protecte...
  • City Hall of Volos, Volos
    Volos

    Volos is a coastal port city situated at the center of the Greece mainland, about 326 km north from Athens and 215 km south from Thessaloniki. It is the capital of the Magnesia Prefectures of Greece....


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