Journal

Essays on Mediterranean architecture, culture, and memory.

Written by a Greek architect exploring the patterns, light, and stories embedded in buildings from Venice to Athens to the French Riviera. Some observations become silk designs. All of them are invitations to look closer.

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Le Train Bleu

Le Train Bleu

In the Golden Age of Travel, Le Train Bleu restaurant was designed to intensify the feeling of anticipation for those travelling to the Mediterranean coast.

Le Train Bleu

In the Golden Age of Travel, Le Train Bleu restaurant was designed to intensify the feeling of anticipation for those travelling to the Mediterranean coast.

Secession

Secession

The primitive geometric shapes of the Secession building in Vienna are cutting away from the historicism and academic dogmas of Fin-de-siècle Europe. But instead of rejecting it, the architectural expression...

Secession

The primitive geometric shapes of the Secession building in Vienna are cutting away from the historicism and academic dogmas of Fin-de-siècle Europe. But instead of rejecting it, the architectural expression...

Close up view of Frederick Leighton's painting "Nanna" with article title "The Cult of Beauty"

Nanna

Leighton's work is not narrating a story; he is not even introducing Nanna. Here, the artistry of the great master is devoting every stroke of this small painting to beauty. 

Nanna

Leighton's work is not narrating a story; he is not even introducing Nanna. Here, the artistry of the great master is devoting every stroke of this small painting to beauty. 

Samaritaine

Samaritaine

The peacocks in the glass roof of the Samaritaine department store in Paris stand in perfect symmetry atop a garland of iron and gold. With feather fans on full display,...

Samaritaine

The peacocks in the glass roof of the Samaritaine department store in Paris stand in perfect symmetry atop a garland of iron and gold. With feather fans on full display,...

External View of Villa Kerylos with a small sailboat in the sea and the blog sub-title "Hellenistic Liturgy" above the horizon

Villa Kerylos

Villa Kerylos is an architectural experiment. A creative interpretation of Hellenistic references that rather than attempting to copy or recreate an ancient Greek ruin, it is shaped into a home...

Villa Kerylos

Villa Kerylos is an architectural experiment. A creative interpretation of Hellenistic references that rather than attempting to copy or recreate an ancient Greek ruin, it is shaped into a home...

Palace of Troy

Palace of Troy

Villa Schliemann, on Panepistimiou Avenue in Athens, combines Neoclassical composition with Renaissance elements that carry particular weight in this location. Schliemann commissioned the villa after his archaeological discoveries in Mycenae...

Palace of Troy

Villa Schliemann, on Panepistimiou Avenue in Athens, combines Neoclassical composition with Renaissance elements that carry particular weight in this location. Schliemann commissioned the villa after his archaeological discoveries in Mycenae...