Ioannis Despotopoulos
Ioannis Despotopoulos (
Aidin Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
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Biography
Despotopoulos was born in Smyrna,
Asia Minor in 1903; soon after he was born, his family moved to the island of Chios where he grew up. He moved to Athens to study architecture. He was enrolled student at the National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.) until he quit and left to study at the Bauhaus in Weimar. He then moved to Leibniz University Hannover, graduating from there in 1927.[1]
It was 1930 when he returned to
Goeteborg. He returned to Greece in 1961 and appointed immediately as a professor at the N.T.U.A. until 1968 when he retired. He died in 1992.[1]
Major works
- Church of the Magaziotissa on Chios
- Municipal baths of Chios
- Sotiria Sanatorium, Athens
- Tripoli Sanatorium
- Asvestohori Hospital
- Chios Movie Theatre
- Akadimia Platonos School Complex
- Athens Conservatoire.
References
- ^ a b c "Despotopoulos Ioannis(1903-1992)". Benaki Museum. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
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