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Constantinos A. Doxiadis (14 May 1913 – 28 June 1975), often cited as C. A. Doxiadis, was a Greek architect and urban planner. During the 1960s, he was the lead architect and planner of Islamabad , which was to serve as the new capital city of Pakistan .
Constantinos A. Doxiadis, the son of Apostolos and Evanthia (Mezeviri) Doxiadis, was born in 1913. His father, a pediatrician, was Minister of Refugees, Social Welfare and Public Health and organized many welfare services, especially for children.
Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis (also Konstantinos; 14 May 1913 - 28 June 1975), often cited as C. A. Doxiadis, was a Greek architect and town planner. He was known as the lead architect of Islamabad, the new capital of Pakistan, and later as the father of ekistics.
Since the existence of big cities was inevitable, as was the proliferation of space-expanding technologies like automobiles and skyscrapers, Doxiadis concluded that planners must find ways to restore human scale to large cities. Some of his proposals included.
Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Director of the Athens Center of Ekistics, personally supervised the research until the day of his death, June 28, 1975. The project involved the collaboration of prominent Greek archaeologists, historians, philologists, architects etc.
Architectural Space in Ancient Greece. In his first book, Doxiadis' view of the architectural and urban past of ancient Greece approximates to the urban thinking of the great moderns of the inter-War period.
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