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Category Archives: ARCHITECTURE

I really don’t know why I love this picture so much…. It was taken during an afternoon walk, when Christos and I were exploring an abandoned garden – one of the so many that can be seen inside traditional island settlements. This old carved wooden door has probably been lying there on its green mattress […]

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One day before its restoration. When Christos e-mailed me these photos of an old canava in Oia, Santorini that was about to be restored, I couldn’t help smiling. All those spontaneous decorations, full of colors and messages, they bring an aura of distant days and ways that are over.  8 Track tapes, diaries, and advertising […]

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If Gaudí lived in Greece… …he would had chosen to live at Emporio village, in Santorini. This beautiful settlement that once used to be one of the island’s castles and seems to have been made of modeling clay is an example of the traditional way of planning construction in the Aegean islands. I am sure […]

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