MONUMENT TO THE GREEK CULTURE
ARCHITECT
GEORGE T. CHRISTIE
A Greek epigram written in ancient Ionian-attican script:
ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ ΓΑΙΑ ΑΓΩΝΕΣΣΙ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΗΣ
ΠΟΙΗΣΙΝ ΤΕΛΕΕΤΑΙ ΛΟΓΟΝ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΗΣ.
THE LAND OF GREEKS BY ITS STRIFES FOR DEMOCRACY
PERFECTED EVERYTHIG DONE TROUGH THE CONCEPT OF FREEDOM.
The memorial incorporates the concepts of the epigram.
ANALYSIS
The unique Greek Civilization has its sources in its position in the geopolitical map, the morphological peculiarity of the land and in the spiritual idiosyncrasy...
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AN INNOVATIVE GREEK ARCHITECT
QUESTION: Your work is impressive and one wonders how these ideas are born in the first place and what are the parameters that influence your creative course?
G.C.: Art is the product of interacting factors within the soul of the artist. Some of them are nature, the social environment (tradition, tendencies, fashion, economic currents, etc) and his personal traits, (talent, spiritual development, priority of values etc).
Architecture as a science is also influenced by the current technology, which, especially in our times, changes drastically the methods...
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