2009-05-18:  The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation organises the photographic exhibition "Architectural Counterpoints from Zachos to the Present" in the Silk Museum, at Soufli. The exhibition includes photographs of architectural entireties or details from Epirus, Thessaly and Macedonia, which were taken from architect Aristotelis Zachos during the inter-War period and raises issues for the current situation/approach of architectural heritage. Photographs of Zachos derive from the Neohellenic Architecture Archives of Benaki Museum.




A scion of a Siatista family of merchants, Aristotelis Zachos studied architecture in Germany, where he lived and worked for 17 years, without ever taking a degree. He interrupted his studies to fight, as a volunteer, in the inglorious war of 1897. He returned to Greece to stay, in 1906, in order to get to know the works of its people from end to end, to sketch and to photograph them, to graft these on to his own architecture. A distinctive figure, he left behind outstanding works, such as the churches in Volos (St Nicholas, the Transfiguration, St Constantine - the most elegant example of his church architecture), Angeliki Hatzimichali's house, and the Zosimaia Teachers' Training College in Ioannina - which typify his ideas about a new Greek architecture.

Duration of exhibition: 2009/05/18 ~ 2009/09/30