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Ioannis Despotopoulos
Greek architect

Ioannis Despotopoulos

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Greek architect
A.K.A.
Jan Despo
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Place of birth
Chios
Age
89 years
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Biography

Ioannis Despotopoulos (Greek: Ιωάννης Δεσποτόπουλος, 7 January 1903 – 1992) also known as Jan Despo, was a Greek architect born in Smyrna (modern Izmir), Aidin Vilayet, Ottoman Empire.

Biography

Soon after he was born, his family moved to the island of Chios where he grew up. He moved to Athens to study architecture. He was enrolled student at the National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.) until he quit and left to study at the Bauhaus in Weimar. He studied there from 1924 to 1925. He then move to the Leibniz Universität Hanover, graduating from there in 1929.

It was 1930 when he returned to Greece. By 1943 (during the occupation of Greece by Nazi Germany), Ioannis Despotopoulos became Professor at the School of Architecture at the N.T.U.A. In 1946, he was discharged from his position at the university and he moved to Sweden for a period between the years 1947 and 1961. During his stay in Sweden, he worked as an architect and also taught at the Polytechnic Institutes of Stockholm and Goeteborg. He returned to Greece in 1961 and appointed immediately as a professor at the N.T.U.A. until 1968 when he retired. He died in 1992.

Major works

  • Church of the Magaziotissa on Chios
  • Municipal baths of Chios
  • Sotiria Sanatorium, Athens
  • Tripoli Sanatorium
  • Asvestohori Hospital
  • Chios Movie Theatre
  • Akadimia Platonos School Complex
  • Athens Conservatory.

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