Dimitris Isaia and Tasis Papaiouannou are perhaps the most significant architects of their generation. Their public and private buildings are not characterized by a sense of local identity, nor by an uncritical adoption of international examples.

They follow a third path, between the objective narration of structure and the interpretative capacity of form, which shapes the aspirations for locality, integration, functionality, handling of natural data, life habits, collective desires, and construction possibilities with the ideological and design tools of the politically and socially more progressive post-war European avant-garde.

Their starting point is the Greek modern movement of the 1930s and the timeless example of Le Corbusier. However, they seek to produce an architecture that is authentically Greek, and thus universal, without being either romantic or formalist, on a path of design rigor and consistency first inaugurated by Aris Konstantinidis.

With the editing of Andrea Giakoumaktos and introductory texts by him and Barbara Hoidn and Wilfried Wang, the volume examines the architectural work of two Athens-based architects over 30 years, summarizing the stimuli and memories of a place, while also serving as a field of creative action with absolute and undisputed cultural autonomy.