Ανώνυμη αρχιτεκτονική [Anonymous architecture]

The subject matter of this book is the anonymous architecture in the urban fabric and the built environment of rural or semi-urban communities. Mr. Dimitris Filippidis, Professor Emeritus at the National Technical University of Athens completed the work after having conducted fieldwork, recording and research of "anonymous" Greek architectural cases or complexes for many years, as well as having photographed or sketched them.

The initial, brief yet quite comprehensive timeline of the bibliography introduces the concept and semiotics of anonymous architecture in comparison and dialogue with the institutional/signed architecture. It also sets out the historical framework and traces the turning points in time, history and ideology for the transition from traditional and "folk" architecture to the anonymous one, also defining the study patterns. The presentation of typical anonymous buildings sheds light on a society marked by poverty, with an ethical economy of materials and means. Finally, since the 1920s, the prevalence of concrete marks the transition to mass architecture and the contemporary anonymous architectural environment.

This is a groundbreaking approach to anonymous constructions, as they were dictated by the needs of everyday life and developed in a dialogue with signed architecture.