Art, Design & Creative Athens
Architecture of Modern Athens
Half DayCentral Athens
Bauhaus, Brutalism and the buildings most visitors never see.
A walking journey through the modernist Athens of the 20th century with a practicing architect.
Highlights
- Practicing architect
- Private interior visits
- Modernist Athens
Includes
- · Expert guide
- · Interior access
A typical timing
Indicative — every experience is privately composed and timed around you.
- 10:00Meet at Syntagma
- 10:30Bauhaus apartment blocks of Kolonaki
- 12:00Pikionis paths on Filopappou
- 13:30SNFCC and the Renzo Piano landscape
- 15:00Close with a negroni in a mid-century hotel bar
Why do this
Modern Athens — Bauhaus apartment blocks, neoclassical façades, the SNFCC, brutalist embassies — is a 20th-century masterpiece hiding in plain sight. An architect walks you through the city Le Corbusier and Pikionis quietly shaped.
Who will enjoy it
Architects, designers, urbanists, and travellers who love a city through its sections and elevations as much as its history.
A sensory guide
How each of the five senses is engaged through the course of the experience.
- Sight
- Mosaic floors in 1930s lobbies, Pikionis's stone paths on Filopappou, glass at the SNFCC.
- Sound
- Lifts in old apartment buildings; a fountain in a modernist courtyard.
- Scent
- Concrete after a summer rain, jasmine on a hidden balcony.
- Taste
- A negroni in a mid-century hotel bar at the end of the walk.
- Touch
- Brushed brass handrails, terrazzo, the precise weight of a perfectly hung door.