Winner in the History Category | American Institute of Architects | International Architecture Book Awards, 1997
Scientific Editor: Panayiotis Tournikiotis, αrchitect, professor at the NTUA
MELISSA Publishing House
384 pages, 138 color and 198 black & white photographs, 105 drawings, hardback with color jacket, 30x25 cm.
The belief that the Parthenon is the most important building in the world, the most perfect structure ever to have been made, is deeply rooted in contemporary thought. The book presents a collection of essays by ten expert scholars, whose shared subject is the Parthenon, though approached from different angles (architecture, archaeology, history of art). Its elevation to the status of the ultimate monument of antiquity but also of the supreme model for the contemporary world has had a profound effect on artistic and architectural creative activity.