Dimitris Pikionis (1887-1968) was a 20th-century Greek architect who had a considerable influence on contemporary Greek architecture. He was a key figure in the avant-garde movements in Greece after the creation of the magazine To Trito Mati (The Third Eye), a fundamental publication in the 1930s for aesthetic theory and artistic practices.
Dimitris Pikionis studied painting and sculpture in Munich and Paris, where he came into contact with modern painting, especially the work of Cézanne and Paul Klee, and the sculpture of Rodin. When he returned to his native Greece, he rediscovered his architectural calling without abandoning painting, which he filled with pictorial references reflected in pavements such as those at the entrances to the Acropolis in Athens.
His architecture sought to integrate tradition with modern abstraction, condensing in its form the desire to address the condition of Hellenic identity culture as a reconciliation between the West, the East and Byzantium.
