Primary School

Kalisperi and Karyatidon Sts, Athens, 1931

Architect
Patroklos Karantinos (1903-1976)



The building at the corner of Karyatidon and Kalisperi Sts, which was designed by architect Patroklos Karantinos within the context of a pioneering school building programme in the 1930s, is an early Greek application of the principles of the radical Modern Movement.
It is the most internationally publicised work of this programme and indeed of Greek architecture during the 1930s.
This school building is in the Makrygianni region under the Acropolis. It consists of a two-storey single volume (ground and first floors) which contains six classrooms with a southern orientation, an internal corridor to the north, a handicraft room on the first floor and a cafeteria and office space on the ground floor, which is in contact with the main volume of the building. The classrooms on the first floor, as provided for by the construction programme, can be joined together for the holding of events.
The treatment of the façades expresses the structure of the building, with the large windows occupying the entire opening between the structural features and emphasising the horizontality of the composition.

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