ABSTRACT
The personal relationship between Constantinos Doxiadis and Dimitris Pikionis was maintained by these two protagonists until the end of their lives. After Pikionis' death in 1968, Doxiadis organized a major retrospective exhibition dedicated to him at the Athens Technological Institute. Doxiadis considered spatial planning to be a theory and practice which should follow rational and empirical analytical methods, adopt established techniques and provide sound and objective solutions to the problems of human settlements. For Doxiadis, architecture was merely one of the fields, and perhaps not even the most important, which would introduce a new Science, that of human settlements. Although Pikionis and Doxiadis both worked on the theoretical connection between the ancient and the modern city, the elements they emphasized were clearly different. The connection between Pikionis' projects and postmodernism also resulted from the special emphasis the Greek architect placed on the architectural image.
