G. Lydis Villa
Today the US Ambassador’s residence

Vournazou St, 1937

Architect
Dimitri Fotiadi (1894-1974)
Associate architect
Ioannis Halepas



This work by Dimitri A. Fotiadi and his associate Ioannis Chalepas, inspired by the neo-Romantic villas of California, was highly influential in the modernisation of the suburban residence in Attica. This is a large-scale middle-class home built on what was then the foot of Lycabettus Hill. Today the then-green area is located in a densely populated central district of Athens and used as residence of the US Ambassador.
On plan, the Lydis villa is L-shaped, with its arms demarcating the two sides of the inner courtyard. The building is two storeys high and houses reception and auxiliary areas on the ground floor and bedrooms on the upper one.
The white plastered walls, tile roofs, flooring materials and the plain décor of the house lend it a neo-Romantic air without any particular historic or regional allusions, but reminiscent of modern villas in California and Mediterranean Europe.

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