2343. Motel Xenia Kalambaka

 

Dear Dimitris,

“We might discover the eternal character of all 

architecture that which is expressed differently in 

each age but that is in the end its most interesting 

aspect." (Aris Konstantinidis)

Regards,

R

1829. Hotel Triton, Andros

Dear Dimitri,

"Every work of architecture, along with the specific economic and technical life of a certain age, man 

himself out of place and time" (Aris Konstantinidis)

Regards,
R

1762. Hotel Xenia, interior, Poros.

Dear Ada,

"If nature were snug, humans wouldn't have 

created architecture" (Aris Konstantinidis)

Truly,
R

1708. Hotel Xenia, Poros

Dear Dimitri,

"You have to become laòs (the people of God) yourself
first before you can show others what is valuable from
your own people" (Aris Konstantinidis)

Sincerely,
R

1677. Hotel Xenia, Iraklion, Crete, Greece

Dear Dimitris,

"And here I am, where I have been looking for ways to have standardization for the construction, and also for the functional configuration, thus each architectural work not to be a unintended incident, but to be a work of thought, something that aims for being complete and perfect"
(Aris Konstantinidis)

Regards,
R

PS. This building was totally demolished and therefore is not standing any longer.

1660. International Fair of Thessaloniki

Dear Helena,

The Hellenic Tourist Organization (HTO) Pavilion 

is shown in this postcard beyond the lonely tree in 

the middle of the picture. This was the first built architectural manifesto of great architect Aris Konstantinidis.

Sincerely,
R

1626. Hotel Xenia, Kos, Dodecanesos

Dear Yorgos:

"Architecture is not an art, it is a natural function"
(Aris Konstantinidis)

Respectfully,
R

1582. Ioannina, Hotel Xenia

Dear Aris,

"The snail does not build its house, but let it grow out of
its body" (Lichtenberg)

R

1579. Epidaurus. General view by air.

Querida Cristina,

En la foto aérea, a la derecha del gran teatro de 

Epidauro se aprecia los camerinos para los actores 

que el gran humanista y arquitecto Aris 

Konstantinidis levantó en éste lugar mágico en 1957.

Besos,
R

1512. Andros. Hotel Triton. 1958

Dear Demetrius,

"Architecture is not concerned with problems of 

aesthetic but problems of life and existence" 

(Aris Konstantinidis)

Regards,
R

1492. Motel Xenia, Larissa, 1960, Greece.

Dear David,

"Here the landscape comes near to us, it comes into the
building, not so much because we see it with our eyes,
but more because we know it exists."
(Aris Konstantinidis, Elements)

Best regards,
R

1463. Motel Xenia, Paliouri, Chalkidikis, Greece

Dear Aris,

"Wine and truth" (ancient Greek saying)

Much respect,
R

1411. Motel Xenia, Larissa.

Dear Sam,

"True architecture, like any true art, must be indigenous,
not international" (Aris Konstantinidis)

Best,
R

1387. Calambaca, Touristic Hotel Xenia

Dear Louis,

"Veritas est adaequatio intellectus et rei" (Thomas Aquinas)

Love,
R

1379. Hotel Miramare, Rhodes.

Querido Manuel Salinas,

"La arquitectura es el arte de las distancias y las puertas"
(José Ramón Sierra Delgado)

Agradecido por su obra.
R

1368. Olympia. View of the village and Motel Xenia

Dear Constantinos,

"Aris Konstantinidis became the legitimate heir to 

the pioneers of the Modern architecture which had disappeared so abruptly before the War" 

(Dimitris Philippides)

Regards,
R

1366. Musee d'Heraclion

Dear Dimitri,

"All perception is colored by emotion" (Enmanuel Kant)

Best,
R

1345. Kalambaka. Hotel Xenias

Dear Dimitris,

"The building should be in tune with its setting. 

Both construction and location "sing" the lives 

they are to sustain, but do so with different voices, polyphonically" (Aris Konstantinidis)

Best,
R

1246. Hotel Xenia, Arta

Querido Pedro,

"Quien verdaderamente aprende a ver, se acerca a lo invisible" (Paul Celan)

Un abrazo,
R

1245. Hotel Xenia, Poros

Estimada Gisèle,

"También piedras son flores, sólo que su aroma es más fuerte"
(Paul Celan)

R