(b Constantinople [now Istanbul], 1903; d Athens, 4 Dec 1976). Greek architect and teacher. He studied at the School of Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (1919–24) and worked for Auguste Perret in Paris (1927–8). In Greece he worked for the Ministry of Education (1930–39) in the Programme of New School Buildings, where he and Nikolaos Mitsakis were the most productive architects. Karantinos’s schools, such as the building (1932) on Kalisperi Street, Athens, are characterized by a consistent application of Modernism to elements that refer to the Mediterranean tradition of antiquity: white prismatic volumes, regular fenestration, brises-soleil and access balconies penetrated or supported by free-standing pillars. He also designed the Archaeological Museum (1933) in Herakleion, Crete, where there is a mixture of direct and indirect natural lighting and an articulation of exhibition areas through projecting or recessed prismatic volumes. In 1932 he was co-founder of the Greek group of CIAM, in 1934 he organized the Exhibition of Greek Modern Architecture in Athens and in 1938 he edited Ta nea scholika ktiria, a publication on Modernist school buildings in Greece. From 1959 to 1968 he was Professor of Architectural Composition at the Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki. He continued to design a number of major buildings, among them the Archaeological Museum (1960) in Thessaloniki, where varieties of natural lighting result from the use of atria and recesses from the street fronts.

• Karantinos, Patroklos
  • Greece, §II, 2: Architecture, c 1900–45: Critical regionalism and Modernism