Originally completed with construction in 1976, the Athens Conservatory, designed by architect Ioannis Despotopoulos is one of the most expensive properties throughout the Balkans- and it hasn’t ever been used to its fullest.
The ground floor of the property has never been occupied due to funding issues. Although recently the state along with private companies put together an initiative to refurbish the space which had attracted scholars from abroad and Greece alike.
“The completion of the ground floor will fully reveal Despotopoulos’s concept, which was based on the idea of the building being part of an ambitious cultural center, something which was eventually not carried out in its entirety. It will open a passage for us to understand the spirit that permeated his architecture,” architect Loukas Bartatilas commented to ekathimerini.com.
The space has everything from amphitheaters and teaching rooms, which are set to soon be occupied by 40 foreign and Greek scholars who are a part of Ideas City Athens, which is a project that was put together by New York’s New Museum, which is touring Detroit, where the project already took place in March and is presently in Athens. In the near future the project will go to Arles.
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