The Modern Architecture Movement has had a significant influence on the Architecture of houses. The single floor inside and outside the house, the transparent walls, the white color combined with the geometry of vertical and horizontal lines as well as the abstract approach to the mass of a house reflect new correlations that are typical, since the mid-20th century, of developments and the passage from industrial revolution and 19th century neoclassicism.
This is not a development where the architect tends to throw a blanket of oversimplification over the new image, but where he attempts to approach a new system of values and conditions in the service of a larger socio-economic condition. Modern man, through the dialectics being “subject to” as an individual, as family, or as a group, is revisiting anew all activities included in the triptych space – need – civilization or even house-haven – privacy – communication – socialization - environment.
We are very proud because by choosing the luxury Edition you hold in your hands, presenting the 30 more representative houses, you have in fact a “reading” tool you can use to comprehend the modern view of important Greek Architects, in the sense described above.This Edition also includes Interviews with Next-Generation Entrepreneurs who, thanks to their knowledge and experience transferred from one generation to the next, contribute to the successful functioning of what Le Corbusier called a “house-machine”. International Architecture Firms guarantee the quality of materials contributing at the same time to Architectural Designs of high aesthetics. The foundation of necessity becomes a form of art and civilization and, in the words of Frank Lloyd Wright, “Without architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization”.
I hope you enjoy this edition and it inspires each one of you!