Averoff Apartment Building

Irodou Attikou and Mourouzi Sts, 1951

Architect
Emmanuel Vourekas (1905-93)



The white Averoff building is located on the most expensive street in Athens, Irodou Attikou, and is a typical example of the style dominant in 1950-60: classicising modernism. It is a work by Emmanuel Vourekas, who was trained at the Technical University of Dresden, and was one of the protagonists of bourgeois architecture in Athens during the 1950s and 60s.
This apartment building consists of a ground floor plus six floors, the last two of which are set in. On each floor, it typically contains three apartments - one with four rooms, one with five and one with six - two apartments on the first of the set-in floors and one on the top floor. The architect, who lived in an apartment in this building, also had his office in the semi-basement.
The façades are plainly and symmetrically treated in the arrangement of openings and balconies. The total expresses the effort to regain the calm and grandeur of old-fashioned neoclassicism.

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