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"A BOOK ABOUT SKOPELOS ISLAND"
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Marc Held’s book, "SKOPELOS
- The landscapes and vernacular architecture of an Aegean Island",
is available in 3 languages (English, Greek and French)
and you will find it in many local shops of the island. Beautifully
produced with many photographs of Skopelos houses, it is a pleasing object
to browse through if either you have been to Skopelos or if you are
interested in vernacular, and particularly Greek, architecture. Beneath
its surface, however, it is many other things. For the architect, artist,
or historian; the owner, restorer and builder of houses; or for the
cultural tourist there is much to catch both the eye and the intellect. |
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Far grater in scope than a technical guide or an
exhaustive description, this book proposes a complete way of life, a
cultural enterprise! Marc is in fact reviving the idea of
philhellenism as a way forward. |
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After twenty years of looking and listening, Marc Held
reveals and shares his know-how, so that our eyes are aware of the light,
the sea, the rocks and the trees. So that our ears are moved by the wind
and the history. So that our hands venture to discover the pleasure of
touching and polishing. So that our plans accommodate necessity,
continuity, identity. This book embodies the encounter between an author
and life on the island of Skopelos. ---
Jack Lang |
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The lessons of utter simplicity in architecture which
Marc Held sets out in this book are based on exchange and reciprocity
rather than on teaching from on high. They are designed to teach owners
what to demand of their architects, and to teach architects how to
anticipate what owners need before they ask for anything. It is a question
of lessons given and received. lessons in sensibility, principally of
respect of the humble, contact with the land and love for one's fellow
human beings. --- Petros Martinidis |
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