In the later stages of his career, Dimitris Pikionis embraced a new commission, that of crafting a children's park. This endeavour provided him with an opportunity to revisit and expand upon the thematic elements he had skilfully employed in his design for the Acropolis. The Filothei park emerged as an embodiment of an analogous Arcadia, a realm where the interplay between nature and architecture remained intricately intertwined. Pikionis’s design sought to recapture a sense of unity that had been gradually eroded by the distractions of modernity. By integrating his signature Doric archaisms, he achieved a striking manifestation of the primaeval hut – a symbolically powerful element that transcends time and evokes the essence of human habitation in its most primitive form. Pikionis’s notion of an imagined Japan, depicted through a Mediterranean lens, further expanded the park's significance.
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Titolo del capitolo
Fra Mediterraneo e Giappone. Suggestioni nipponiche nel Parco Filothei di Dimitri Pikionis, Atene, 1961-1964
Autori
Andrea Innocenzo Volpe
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0422-4.35
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Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Il dono dell’airone
Sottotitolo del libro
Scritti in onore di Ikuko Sagiyama
Curatori
Luca Capponcelli, Diego Cucinelli, Chiara Ghidini, Matilde Mastrangelo, Rolando Minuti
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Numero di pagine
390
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0422-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0421-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0422-4
Collana
Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History
ISSN della collana
2975-0393
e-ISSN della collana
2975-0261