Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis (Greek Κωνσταντίνος Δοξιάδης, born May 14, 1913 † 28 June 1975) was a Greek architect and urban planner of modernity. He is best known as the principal architect of the Pakistani capital Islamabad and the city of Rawalpindi. Later he turned to architectural theory. The office Doxiadis Associates exists to this day.

Life

Doxiadis graduated in 1935 from the Technical University of Athens and earned his doctorate at the Technical University of Berlin a year later. In 1936, he was a city planner city of Athens, and from 1940 to 1945, he worked as a town planner in the Ministry of Construction. From 1945 he was director of various building programs. With Doxiadis Associates he made in 1951 independently. Later he became a professor at Oxford.

After he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, he worked intensively with this incurable disease to support researchers.

Works (selection)

Overall, Doxiadis has several hundred projects supervised, including:

Work as a town planner

  • Islamabad (Pakistan )
  • Rawalpindi (Pakistan )
  • City of Al - Burayqah (Libya)
  • City of Tema (Ghana)
  • Urban planning in Rio de Janeiro ( " Plano Doxiadis " )
  • City Planning Baghdad ( "Master Plan of Baghdad" )
  • Transport planning for Baghdad, Basra, Mosul
  • Planning of tourism infrastructure of Otranto
  • Planning of tourism infrastructure of Andalucia and the Costa del Sol
  • Regional Study of the Great Lakes Megalopolis, USA
  • Regional Study of the Urban Area of ​​Detroit, Michigan, United States

Working as an architect

  • Teacher Student Centre ( TSC ) of the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Teacher Training College Center, Horns, Syria
  • Campus of the Punjab University in Lahore
  • Plaza Building Complex, Detroit Edison Company, Detroit
  • Doxiadis ' architecture office (1955-1961), 24 Stratiotikou Syndesmou St., Lycabettus, Athens
  • National Hellenic Research Foundation (1961-1975) at the 48 Vas. Konstantinou Ave., Athens
  • Apollonio Summer Resort ( 1970-81 ), Porto Rafti, Athens

Writings (selection )

  • Spatial Planning in the Greek urban planning. Vowinckel, Heidelberg; Berlin 1937 ( = dissertation)
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