Medical Laboratory Complex, University of Athens
(Institutes of Pathology, Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology, Hygiene and Microbiology, the Pathological Anatomy Amphitheatre and a chapel)

Goudi, Athens, 1929-1933

Architect
Emmanuel Kriezis (1880-1967)
Cooperating architects
Kyprianos Biris (1907-1990)
Panagiotis Marthas (1905-1965)



The Medical School Laboratory Complex of the University of Athens is among the earliest Greek applications of the principles of the radical Modern Movement and the one of the very few cases of interwar buildings about which interest was expressed by the foreign architectural press of the period. The complex, part of the Goudi Campus, was designed by the engineer and architect, graduate of the Munich School of Engineeering and NTUA professor Emmanuel Kriezis, with the collaboration of the young architects Kyprianos Biris and Panagiotis Marthas.
The construction solution was the result of the successful application of the spirit and letter of German modernism to conditions in interwar Athens. It is a rationalist composition of building volumes that are treated and positioned according to their function. The most interesting part of the complex was the anatomy amphitheatre, which was torn down in the mid-1970s, and was octagonal on plan with visible structural features.
The function of the buildings is expressed in the treatment of the stucco surfaces, and the construction system is concealed.

TRANSPORTATION