Atene 1933. Un nuovo teatro nella scena urbana Athens 1933. A new theatre in the urban scenario

A small open-air theatre, designed by Dimitris Pikionis, appeared on the Athenian urban scene at a critical moment for the capital: the arrival of refugees from Asia Minor, the resulting housing problem, the ineffective policies of city expansion. In this context, the interwar architectural debate in the capital became complex, contradictory and full of ideological conflicts, and episodically found a way to develop, in particular in the construction of key architectural sites for the new neighbourhoods: open spaces and collective spaces, schools. Adding to the complexity of the debate was Pikionis with concrete responses to the unrestrained reconstruction, the savage destruction of traditional architecture, and discourses on the standard. In the same year, the 4th CIAM arrived in Athens with unexpected turns.