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The Art of Building Reception: Aris Konstantinidis behind the Global Published Life of his Weekend House in Anavyssos (1962–2014)
- Author(s):
- Stylianos (Stelios) Giamarelos (see profile)
- Date:
- 2014
- Group(s):
- Architectural History and Theory
- Subject(s):
- Architecture, Historiography, Photography, Reader-response criticism
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- architectural media, architectural publication, Modern Greece, regional modernism, vacation house, Modernism, Reception analysis
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/rn7r-pg14
- Abstract:
- Aris Konstantinidis’s Weekend House in Anavyssos (1962–1964) holds an emblematic place within his oeuvre. This article uncovers the architect’s own role in building the global reception of this project through a tripartite account of its global published life from the printed page to the digital website over the last five decades (1962–2014). Konstantinidis created a uniquely hermetic zone around his work by adopting a publishing practice that combines his own photographs as narrative and his accompanying text as an architectural manifesto of his regional modernism. Highlighting turning points in the published life of this building, the article relates the original gaze of the architect to the gaze adopted by each subsequent researcher of his work. The conclusion recalibrates the gaze of the contemporary architectural historian towards an architectural work that has effectively been doubly built to be received as canonical, as well as an architectural persona that is often easily romanticised in its dominant interpretations.
- Metadata:
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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