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Constantinos A. Doxiadis [a] (14 May 1913 – 28 June 1975), often cited as C. A. Doxiadis, was a Greek architect and urban planner. During the 1960s, he was the lead architect and planner of Islamabad, which was to serve as the new capital city of Pakistan.
Constantinos A. Doxiadis. Architect & Urban Planner. The Man and his Work. Constantinos A. Doxiadis Archives. "What human beings need is not utopia ('no place') but entopia ('in place') a real city which they can build, a place which satisfies the dreamer and is acceptable to the scientist, a place where the projections of the artist and the ...
Constantinos A. Doxiadis, the son of Apostolos and Evanthia (Mezeviri) Doxiadis, was born in 1913. His father, a pediatrician, was Minister of Refugees, Social Welfare and Public Health and organized many welfare services, especially for children.
1 apr 2019 · This essay summarizes the history and politics of Constantinos Doxiadis’s urban vision which flourished internationally after the Second World War, reinventing architects planners as scientists, technocrats, and development experts, while renegotiating modernism’s rationalism and individualism.
- Panayiota Pyla
- 2019
Fondò presso l'Istituto tecnologico di Atene un centro di "echistica" (scienze degli insediamenti umani) con il periodico Ekistics, pubblicato anche negli Stati Uniti. Tra i suoi saggi: Architecture in transition (1963); Between dystopia and utopia (1966); Ekistics: introduction to the science of human settlements (1968); Building entopia (1976).
The "Constantinos A. Doxiadis Archives" are hosted at the Benaki Museum - Pireos St. Annexe, Athens, Greece. They contain nearly all of Doxiadis' original writings, projects, drawings and photographs, as well as the full body of his correspondence, professional memoranda and notes.
Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Director of the Athens Center of Ekistics, personally supervised the research until the day of his death, June 28, 1975. The project involved the collaboration of prominent Greek archaeologists, historians, philologists, architects etc.
