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Panagiotakos, Kyriakos Fotiou
(b Athens, Oct 1902; d Athens, 2 Jan 1982). Greek architect. He studied at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens (1919–23), and in 1930 joined the Department of Technical Works, Ministry of Education, where until 1935 he collaborated in the Programme of New School Buildings. His schools are characterized by their plasticity, controlled irregularity, careful non-alignment and minimal use of repetition. These attributes are in contrast to the neo-classical elements and design principles evident in most other projects of the Programme, and they made him the most modern Greek architect of the 1930s, as exemplified by such school buildings as the one (1933) in Gouva, Pagrati, Athens. He submitted a design (with Nikolaos Mitsakis, 1931; unexecuted) for the competition for the Church of the Virgin, Tinos: this was the first application of Modernism to ecclesiastical architecture in Greece. His polychromed (or ‘blue’) block of flats (1932–3) on Themistokleous Street and Arahovis Street, Exarcheia, Athens, is the finest case of applied colour (by the painter Spyros Papaloukas) on the façade of a Greek building of the 1930s. From 1935 to 1967 Panagiotakos was Architect of the Municipality of Athens, during which time he prepared a development plan for the city and supervised public housing in Peiraeus.
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