In the history of building, Aristotelis Zachos is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Aristotelis Zachos as Greek architect and restorer (1871–1939).
Aristotelis Zachos was born at Kastoria in 1871. His recorded nationality is Greece. He trained at Monastir Greek High School and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect, restorer and photographer.
His best-known building is Ion Dragoumis Monument. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Greece shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Aristotelis Zachos died in 1939, aged 68. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Ion Dragoumis Monument
- Trained at Monastir Greek High School and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
