Anastasios Orlandos (, 23 December 1887 – 6 October 1979) was a
Greek
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architect and historian of architecture.
Biography
A descendant of
Ioannis Orlandos
Ioannis Orlandos () was a Greek politician and revolutionary who participated in the Greek War of Independence.
Early life and Greek Revolution
His father Constantinos-Anagnostis Orlandos came from Spetses to Hydra in 1781. He was married with ...
,
Anastasios was born and died in
Athens
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. He studied as a civil engineer in the
National Technical University of Athens
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, and completed his studies in archaeology at the
University of Athens
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, where he later served as a professor. He was among the leading researchers in ancient
Greek
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,
Roman
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and
Byzantine architecture
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, and responsible for the restoration of many ancient and medieval monuments throughout the country. He was also chairman of the
Academy of Athens in 1950, and from 1951 until his death secretary of the
Archaeological Society of Athens
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.
Publications
* ''Το αέτωμα του εν Σουνίω ναού του Ποσειδώνος, Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον,'' 1, 1915, 1-27.
* ''Ο εν στρατώ της Ακαρνανίας ναός του Διός'', 1924.
* ''Μοναστηριακή αρχιτεκτονική,'' 1927, 2nd Edition 1958.
Παλαιοχριστιανικαί βασιλικαί της Λέσβου ''Πρακτικά της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών'', 1928, 322-331.
Το βαπτιστήριον της Κώ ''Πρακτικά της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών'', 1928, 441-444.
Η παλαιοχριστιανική βασιλικη των Δαφνουσίων της Λοκρίδος ''Πρακτικά της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών'', 1929, 226-231.
Η αρχιτεκτονική του τζαμιού Οσμάν Σάχ των Τρικκάλων ''Πρακτικά της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών'', 1929, 319-325.
* ''Monuments byzantines de Chios,'' 1930.
Η παλαιοχριστιανική βασιλική της Γλυφάδας ''Πρακτικά της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών'', 1930, 258-265.
* ''Μεσαιωνικά μνημεία της πεδιάδος των Αθηνών και των κλιτυών Υμηττού – Πεντελικού, Πάρνηθος και Αιγάλεω'', 1933
Η Βασιλική των Κεγρεών ''Πρακτικά της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών'', 1935, 55-57.
* ''Συμβολή στη βυζαντινή αρχιτεκτονική,'' 1937.
Ο προορισμός του βορείως του Ωρολογίου Ανδρονίκου του Κυρρήστου ρωμαϊκού κτίσματος ''Πρακτικά της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών'', 1940, 251-260.
* ''Αρχείον των βυζαντινών μνημείων της Ελλάδος.'' 12 volumes, 1937–1973.
Αισθητική ανάλυσις του Δωρικού ναού και ειδικώτερον του Παρθενώνος ''Πρακτικά της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών'', 1950, 544-560.
* ''Η ξυλόστεγος παλαιοχριστιανική βασιλική της μεσογειακής λεκάνης.'' 3 volumes, 1952–1954
* ''Τα υλικά δομής των αρχαίων Ελλήνων και οι τρόποι εφαρμογής αυτών κατά τους συγγραφείς, τας επιγραφάς και τα μνημεία'', 1955
* ''Η Παρηγορήτισσα της Άρτης,'' 1963.
Τι ήταν οι άβακες των Ρωμαϊκων Θεάτρων, ''Πρακτικά της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών'', 1963, 479-490.
* ''Les matériaux de construction et la technique architecturale des anciens Grecs.'' 2 volumes, de Boccard, Paris 1966–1968.
Νέον Επίγραμμα του δευτέρου π.χ. αιώνος εκ Ρόδου (Κατάλογος Επιγραφών Μουσείου Ρόδου αρ.567) ''Πρακτικά της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών'', 1976, 830-838.
* ''Η αρχιτεκτονική του Παρθενώνος,'' 3 volumes, 1977.
* ''Λεξικόν αρχαίων ελληνικών αρχιτεκτονικών όρων,'' 1986.
See also
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References
External links
Library and Information Centre of the University of Crete
Biblionet database entry
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1887 births
1979 deaths
Architects from Athens
Archaeologists from Athens
Greek Byzantinists
National Technical University of Athens alumni
Academic staff of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Members of the Academy of Athens (modern)
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Greek architectural historians
Arvanites
Herder Prize recipients
20th-century Greek archaeologists
Byzantine archaeologists