15 February 2003
In the winter of 1943-44 the Nazi occupation forces razed to the ground a large number of villages as part of ‘mopping-up’ operations on the Greek mountain range of Pindos. Although the method of burning down was technologically primitive, a whole era of architectural ‘civilisation of the mountains’ was wiped […]
9 February 2003
On August 15, 1944 a letter published in The Times of London proposed that a number of the churches that had been half-destroyed by German bombs be left as ruins, so as to serve as permanent monuments to the Second World War. The proposal was signed by eminent members of […]
20 October 2002
It is a fact that the post-war building in Greece, one of the fundamentals of the overall operation of contemporary Greek society, has yet to be fully assessed in social, economic and technological terms. This serious approach is substituted by the generalized, clichéd and hence unproductive recriminations about “concrete destroying […]