Nikolaos Balanos made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Nikolaos Balanos as Greek civil engineer and architect.
Nikolaos Balanos was born at Athens in 1860. His recorded nationality is Greece. He was educated at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.
The nineteenth century professionalised nearly everything: salaried posts, formal training, and audiences large enough to sustain a career.
He worked as civil engineer and architect.
His name is attached above all to controversial anastylosis of monuments on the Acropolis of Athens between 1894 and 1939. Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
His work was formally recognised with the Honorary doctorate from the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg.
Working from Greece shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Nikolaos Balanos died in 1942, aged 82. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Educated at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
- Worked as civil engineer and architect
