Talk: Shipwrecks of the Modern

In the archive located at Dimitris Pikionis's house, there is an unpublished letter, unknown until now. In this letter one can read the detailed description of the shipwreck of a sailboat - having Dimitris Pikionis among its few passengers - while crossing the Corinthian Gulf in August 1928. Circumventing the historical documentation of the actual events I will attempt to read this letter as a narrative material that uses a symbolic language; I will interpret it as a 'myth', a 'parable' or a 'dream' that talks to us about Dimitris Pikionis as an architect and creative person, but also about the identity of modern Greek architecture in relation to the international modernism of the interwar period.

https://hellenic.princeton.edu/events/workshop-konstantinos-tsiambaos-shipwrecks-modern-unknown-incident-life-dimitris-pikionis