Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis

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Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis (1913 - 28 June 1975) was a significant Greek architect. He was the principal designer of the Pakistani capital Islamabad and later, its linear merge with Rawalpindi. He also led the movement called Ekistics, and conceived the idea of the ecumenopolis. Doxiadis is credited with distinct contribution to "high" modernism.

Also developed the Master Plan of the new campus of University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan in 1960.

Doxiadis graduated in architectural engineering from Technical University of Athens in 1935, obtaining a doctorate from Charlottenburg University in Berlin a year later.

[edit] Book "Ekistics"

Doxiadis proposes ekistics as a science of human settlement and outlines its scope, aims, intellectual framework and relevance. A major incentive for the development of the science is the emergence of increasingly large and complex settlements, tending to regional conurbations and even to a world-wide city (Doxiadis uses the word "ecumenopolis"). However, ekistics aims to encompass all scales of human habitation and seeks to learn from the archeological and historical record by looking not only at great cities, but, as much as possible, at the total settlement pattern.