Rena Sakellaridou, award-winning architect, presents Agemar, the Athens headquarters of one of the most important maritime groups worldwide, which she designed. Erieta Attali, world-renowned architectural photographer, photographs the building over the course of a year.
Agemar breaks new ground for the Athenian typology of large-scale buildings. Opened in 2018, it has already come to represent the epitome of maritime architecture. The long horizontal lines of the "floating in the sea" curved form, in a dialogue with the intense Attic light and the sea horizon, transform the fragmented urban chaos of Athens's cityscape into a strong icon. Curving strips of white marble flow uninterruptedly like waves around the building in graceful motion. The interior is a gripping piece of architecture, an ethereal world shaped by natural light and shadows and the flowing curves of the white marble walls.
Through essays, sketches, drawings, commentary, and photography this monograph provides an intimate view of the creation of this unique building. Texts by Rena Sakellaridou, Kaye Geipel, and Erieta Attali.
RENA SAKELLARIDOU (* Samos) holds a Diploma form AUTh., a MArch from the University of British Columbia and a Ph.D from the Bartlett School, University College London. She is a professor of architectural design at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her architectural office RS SPARCH is based in Athens. Her work has drawn international fame; it has been extensively published and exhibited and has been the recipient of many international and national awards and distinctions
ERIETA ATTALI (*1966, Tel Aviv) is a New York and Paris based architecture and landscape photographer. She has a Ph.D. from the School of Architecture & Design, RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Her architectural work expands from Europe to Americas and from Asia to Australia. Attali is the co-author of the Glass Wood | Erieta Attali on Kengo Kuma, author of the Periphery. An Archeology of Light and co-author of Marc Mimram: Structure | Light Landscapes of Gravity Through the Lens of Erieta Attali
