Athens B

Athens B consists of three projects, each contextualizing a hand drawn city map. Primarily an academic research project exploring

the connection between local politics and private interests, here

made manifest in the proposed Formula 1 racetrack in Piraeus. It

also records the conflict between the private sector and the state, expressed here by its social obligations and the architectural studies for a museum and a theme park prepared in parallel and with the same title: Acropolis. Finally, it also documents a Danish university study which proposes a low-cost alignment of the city’s facades with tourist clichés about how Athens could move closer to its ancient image.

This Athens is just a provincial city some 48,000 inhabitants, the capital of the Prefecture of Attica. Starved of oxygen, like so many other provincial cities in Greece, the pervasive small mindedness and total lack of daring and imagination render it incapable of dealing with its problems.

Athens, a city that has long since lost the patina of its golden age, but lives off it still, in the shadow of Corinth, the seat of Greek government since 1834.

The topographical map of Athens B. Dimensions 108 x 191 cm,

ink on paper (200 gr)

Detail of the Athens B map