THE BEGINNING
At the beginning of 1950 begins a big effort of EOT (Greek tourism organization) about the development of tourism and the building infracture. During the period from 1950 to 1958 Charallambos Sfaellos, the director of technical services of the newly-founded Greek National Tourism Organization, undertakes a construction project of Xenia. From 1957 to 1967 Aris Konstantinidis is the director of the Technical Office of Studies and he changes that office into a workshop of architectural thought with significant collaborators and important architects. It is important to notice that the overall approach is based on a solid theoretical background which is presented in the texts of Aris Konstantinidis and his texts analyze how to choose the appropriate space and angle, the importance of the landscape, the relations between the interior parts and the exterior parts, the simplicity and the clarity of the form, the honest use of materials, the standardization of the construction but also the desire to introduce these pieces in each place, making them the elements that make the whole project unique.
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