NEO-CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE IN GREECE

Παρουσίαση

Familiar, loved buildings, touched by the romanticism of nineteenth-century Europe, which have provided the setting of so much of the life of modern Greece and given a special character first to Athens and then to other Greek towns, are one by one disappearing. This radical change is taking place almost unperceived, so rapid is the pace and so great the extent of the demolition of fine monuments, particularly during the last years. (. . .) The disappearance of these neo-classical buildings, linked as they are with that nostalgia for the grandeur which marked the first stages of modern Hellenism, leaves a blank which it will be hard to fill; it means a loss not only in tradition, but also of that love with which these buildings were created. (. . .) (AΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)