LEARNING FROM SANTORINI
Since the 1970s, Warlamis has been studying Santorini in a comprehensive manner. He was interested in the architecture of the island, as well as the social organization and historical background of the place.
In 1995, within the framework of the European Med Campus Program, Warlamis declared Santorini a model of ecological architecture. This was the reason for us to gather material from his studies and research and to publish “LEARNING FROM SANTORINI”.
This book presents a small part of Warlamis’s overall work, which is however enough to ascertain its depth and quality and the fact that it conveys information from the cultural, social and architectural data of the island, as exemplary solutions to the urban planning problems of today’s megacities.
It is a book that provides essential information to those interested in the island and one does not need to be an architect to be able to read it.
The book had three reprints and was translated into English and German.
he himself writes...
…what makes the architecture of Santorini so fascinating is the constant presence of an almost uninterrupted evolution, the manifestations of which can be traced over the centuries. Although Santorini is repeatedly shaken by volcanic forces, this island in the Aegean has preserved all the phases of the evolution of human habitation from prehistory to the present day. From this independent and at the same time multifaceted diagnosis, we derive valuable information for understanding the evolution of architecture. Our research can thus penetrate the most extreme and complex forms of organization. We see how architecture evolves, from the use of natural caves to its autonomous presentation. In many ways this evolution resembles the phases of embryonic human development….
