ARIS CONSTANTINIDIS –VESSELS OF LIFE (PORTRAITS OF GREEK ARCHITECTS)

The documentary explores the life and work of renowned architect Aris Constantinidis. An emblematic figure of Greek architecture, he was a genuinely nonconformist spirit, who, throughout his life, went up against that which he believed to be false. As an architect, he rejected both the imitation of Western European models as well as the sterile clinging to archaic ones, choosing another path which was based on anonymous architecture: the three-part structure comprising a covered area, a closed room and a yard. This set-up was in perfect harmony with the model of outdoor life which connects antiquity to modern times. The film includes footage from a TV program on which he appeared as well as a series of invaluable radio interviews. His son, Dimitris Constantinidis, also an architect, and Yorgos Tzirtzilakis, an architect and this documentary series’ scientific advisor and presenter, watch Constantinidis’s TV interview and comment on it. The film attempts to analyze Aris Constantinidis’s thoughts via an anthropocentric approach.