Andreas Papadakis

Andreas Papadakis ( Ανδρέας Παπαδάκης, born June 17, 1938 in Nicosia, † 10 June 2008) was a British - Cypriot architecture critic. He has published over 1,000 works as an author or publisher and wrote the first about Leon Krier, Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid.

Biography

Papadakis was born in 1938 in Nicosia in 1956 and moved to London to attend college and study there. In 1964 he acquired there a property to live in, without knowing that their floor was only approved for commercial use. He opened a bookstore there, but moved its activities increasingly on the siting and publishing under the name Academy Editions. In 1971 he moved to a larger building in 1975 and earned the prestigious but financially troubled Architectural Design magazine. In 1977 he moved Charles Jencks ' The Language of Post-Modern Architecture and sparked a controversy. In 1990 he retired from business as a publisher and back on expiry of the five-year restrictive clause, he founded Papadakis Publisher along with his daughter Alexandra Papadakis.