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Demetri Porphyrios, the Glossary

Demetri Porphyrios (Δημήτρης Πορφυρίου; born 1949) is a Greek architect and author who practices architecture in London as principal of the firm Porphyrios Associates.^[1]

33 relations: Alvar Aalto, Architectural Design, Athens, Birmingham, Brindleyplace, Cambridge, Classical architecture, Collegiate Gothic, Denmark, Finland, Gothic architecture, Greece, Gunnar Asplund, Kay Fisker, London, Louis Althusser, Magdalen College, Oxford, Magdalene College, Cambridge, Michel Foucault, Modern architecture, New Classical architecture, Nordic Classicism, Princeton University, Reading, Berkshire, Scandinavia, Selwyn College, Cambridge, Spetses, Structuralism, Sweden, The Battery (Manhattan), Vernacular architecture, Whitman College, Princeton University, Yale School of Architecture.
20th-century Greek architects
21st-century Greek architects
Driehaus Architecture Prize winners
Greek expatriates in the United Kingdom
Neoclassical architects

Alvar Aalto

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer.

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Architectural Design

Architectural Design, also known as AD, is a UK-based architectural journal first launched in 1930 as Architectural Design and Construction.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Brindleyplace

Brindleyplace is a large mixed-use canalside development, in the Westside district of Birmingham, England.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes more specifically, from De architectura (c. 10 AD) by the Roman architect Vitruvius.

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Collegiate Gothic

Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic Revival architecture, popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for college and high school buildings in the United States and Canada, and to a certain extent Europe.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Gunnar Asplund

Erik Gunnar Asplund (22 September 1885 – 20 October 1940) was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s, and during the last decade of his life as a major proponent of the modernist style which made its breakthrough in Sweden at the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930).

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Kay Fisker

Kay Otto Fisker (14 February 1893 – 21 June 1965) was a Danish architect, designer and educator.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Louis Althusser

Louis Pierre Althusser (16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.

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Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford.

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Magdalene College, Cambridge

Magdalene College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Michel Foucault

Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French historian of ideas and philosopher who also served as an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher.

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Modern architecture

Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements.

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New Classical architecture

New Classical architecture, New Classicism or Contemporary Classical architecture is a contemporary movement in architecture that continues the practice of Classical architecture.

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Nordic Classicism

Nordic Classicism was a style of architecture that briefly blossomed in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland) between 1910 and 1930.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a town and borough in Berkshire, England.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.

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Selwyn College, Cambridge

Selwyn College, Cambridge (formally Selwyn College in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Spetses

Spetses (Σπέτσες, Πιτυοῦσσα "Pityussa", Arvanitika: Πετσε̱) is an island in Attica, Greece.

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Structuralism

Structuralism is an intellectual current and methodological approach, primarily in the social sciences, that interprets elements of human culture by way of their relationship to a broader system.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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The Battery (Manhattan)

The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor.

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