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ΦΙΞ FIX 120+YEARS OF ARCHITECTURE
Εκδότης Epikentro Publishers , ISBN 9789604583256
The FIX brewery building on Syngrou Avenue, as we older folks came to know it, represented the architectural modernity of post-war Athens and the productive dynamics of a growth-oriented economy. Both of these were in the vortex of decline at the end of the 20th Century, when the salvation of the building that bore the signature of Takis Zenetos and Margaritis Apostolidis became a cause celebre for a great many architects, albeit with no support from the government or public opinion. Within the semantics of architectural perception, the FIX building was modern and ideal, representing visions, even if these were, to a large extent, ineffective. At the same time, however, it was mythical, rising like a magic veil and refusing to allow one to look upon it as being real. I remember that, in 1990, the doubt and the retort to the 'certainties' had to be published under an alias so as not to provoke the wrath of our dear colleagues. In the meantime, FIX was cleaved two, to the sound of false promises from the political class in power at the time, subsequently being put through the wringer before being transformed into what is today the National Museum of Contemporary Art. Yet, it conceals inside it, deep in its entrails and recorded memory, a multidimensional, inconsistent and enchanting story of production and construction mutations, herein revealed through an anatomical probing into the built volume, which enriches its contemporary image by adding a depth of time that is its own.
Περίληψη
The FIX brewery building on Syngrou Avenue, as we older folks came to know it, represented the architectural modernity of post-war Athens and the productive dynamics of a growth-oriented economy. Both of these were in the vortex of decline at the end of the 20th Century, when the salvation of the building that bore the signature of Takis Zenetos and Margaritis Apostolidis became a cause celebre for a great many architects, albeit with no support from the government or public opinion. Within the semantics of architectural perception, the FIX building was modern and ideal, representing visions, even if these were, to a large extent, ineffective. At the same time, however, it was mythical, rising like a magic veil and refusing to allow one to look upon it as being real. I remember that, in 1990, the doubt and the retort to the 'certainties' had to be published under an alias so as not to provoke the wrath of our dear colleagues. In the meantime, FIX was cleaved two, to the sound of false promises from the political class in power at the time, subsequently being put through the wringer before being transformed into what is today the National Museum of Contemporary Art. Yet, it conceals inside it, deep in its entrails and recorded memory, a multidimensional, inconsistent and enchanting story of production and construction mutations, herein revealed through an anatomical probing into the built volume, which enriches its contemporary image by adding a depth of time that is its own.
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Συγγραφέας Theodoropoulou, Dora
- Eκδότης Epikentro Publishers
- ISBN 9789604583256
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100073541
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2020
- Σελίδες 336
- Διαστάσεις 24χ28
- Βάρος 0 gr