FRAGMENTS OF MEMORY IN RESIDENTIAL INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

The present paper tackles the concept of memory as a compositional tool employed in architectural spatialization process. More specifically, it focuses on residential interior architecture work Greek architect Takis Marthas, placing special emphasis conjunction tradition and Modernism, binary vividly captured visual arts 1930s, to which Marthas belongs. In Marthas’ oeuvre, design composition are locked dialectical relationship by way cross-pollination, juxtaposition, complementarity, or introduction intact fragments into space. style could thus be construed an attempt combining past form creative process whereby elements–mental material–are drawn from diverse places historical periods, only repurposed integrated unified whole, retaining their autonomy alluding hybrid model. As far residence is concerned, conveyed through images rendered either integral spatial transfer mental material constructions, elements, textures colour. These elements evoke restore sensations past. Within creation residence, gestures linked with can freely expressed, connecting present, place, well bringing together space users/residents’ personal experiences. Fraught number tensions typical 1930s generation, such abovementioned bring but also pursue Greekness both references antiquity folklore tradition, oeuvre adumbrated using works written oral testimonies dating 1930s-1960s methodological tools.