Born 1913
Constantinos A. Doxiadis, son of Apostolos and Evanthia (Mezeviri) Doxiadis, comes
from a family that played an important role in the settlement of Greek war refugees in
between the two World Wars. His father, a pediatrician, was Minister for the
Resettlement of Refugees, Social Welfare and Public Health and organized many welfare
services especially for children.
 
 

Graduated
Architect-Engineer from the Technical University of Athens in 1935, did graduate work
at Berlin-Charlottenburg University and received the degree of Dr. Ing. «Mit Auszeichnung» 1936.
 

Military Service

• Corporal, Artillery of the Greek Army (1940-1941).
• Chief of the National Resistance Group "Hephaestus" (1941 - 1945).
• Captain in the Greek Army at the time of Greece's liberation (1944 - 1945).

Married
Emma Scheepers, April 30, 1940; children: Evanthia, Calliope, Euphrosyne, Apostolos.

Died
June 28, 1975, after a long period of illness

Honorary Degrees

• Swarthmore College Pa., U.S.A., 1962 (LL. D.)
• Wayne State University, Mich., U.S.A., 1964 (D.H.)
• Mills College, Calif., U.S.A., 1964 (LLD.)
• N. Michigan University, Mich., U.S.A. 1965 (L.H.D.)
• Detroit Institute of Technology, Mich., U.S.A.1966 (D.Sc.)
• University of Rhode Island, R.I., U.S.A., 1966 (D.F.A.)
• University of Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.A., 1967 (D.Sc.)
• The University of Michigan, Mich., U.S.A., 1967 (LLD.)
• Tulane University, La., U.S.A., 1968 (LLD.)
• Kalamazoo College, Mich.,  U.S.A., 1968 (LLD.)
• Marietta College, Ohio, U.S.A., 1969 (D.Sc.)
• Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, U.S.A., 1969 (L.H.D.).

• Chief Town Planning Officer, Greater Athens Area (1937 - 1938).
• Head, Department of Regional and Town Planning, Ministry of Public Works, Greece (1939 - 1945).

Taught

• Lecturer and Acting Professor of Town Planning, Technical University of Athens (1939-1943).
• Visiting Lecturer at the Universities of Chicago, Dublin, Harvard, Michigan, New York, Oxford, Princeton, Yale, Massachusetts and Georgia Institutes of Technology. Swarthmore and Trinity Colleges.
• Professor of Ekistics at the Athens Center of Ekistics, Athens Technological Organization.

Served

• Under-Secretary and Director General of the Ministry of Housing and Reconstruction, Greece (1945 - 1948).
• Minister - Coordinator of the Greek Recovery Program and Under-Secretary, Ministry of Coordination (1948 - 1951).

Participated

• Member of the Greek Delegation, San Francisco Peace Conference (1945).
• Representative of Greece to France, England and the United States of America on the problems of postwar reconstruction (1945).
• Head of the Greek Delegation at the U.N. International Conference on Housing, Planning and Reconstruction (1947).
• Head of the Greek Delegation at the Greco-Italian War Reparation Conference (1949 - 1950).
• Representative of Greece on the Housing, Building and Planning Committee of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, New York (1963 and 1964).
• Chairman of the Session on Urban Problems, United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the benefit of the less developed areas, Geneva (1963).

Consultant

• United Nations (Asian Highway; Housing in India and Algeria; Housing and Planning in Skopje, Yugoslavia).
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Land and Water Use Survey, Kordofan, Sudan).
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Housing in Jordan, Syria and Venezuela).
• Inter-American Development Bank (Development of the River Plate Basin).
• International Cooperation Administration (Housing in Lebanon).
• Agency for International Development (Housing in Karachi and Saigon).
• Ford Foundation (Pilot Housing, Ekistic Training and Educational Buildings in Pakistan,Lebanon, and Syria; Housing in Chile).
• Redevelopment Land Agency of Washington D.C. (Urban Renewal, Washington D.C.).
• Governments of: Brazil, Cyprus, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, S. Vietnam, Spain, the Sudan, Syria, the United States, Zambia.

Researcher

• "City of the Future", "Human Community", "The Ancient Greek City" and "The Capital of Greece", projects of the Athens Technological Organization.
• National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) on Urban Renewal in the U.S.A.

Elected

• Corresponding Member, Deutsche Akademie fuer Staedtebau und Landesplanung (1937).
• Honorary Corresponding Member, Town Planning Institute of Great Britain (1947).
• Chairman, United Nations Working Group on Housing Policies, Geneva (1948).
• Honorary Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, Glasgow (1964).
• Member of the International Committee, The Institute on Man and Science, New York (1965).
• Honorary Member, Industrial Designers Society of America (1970).
• President, Doxiadis Associates Int., Consultants on Development and Ekistics, Athens, Greece, and of the various affiliated companies abroad (1951 - 1975).
• Chairman, Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, Doxiadis Associates Inc., Washington D.C.
• Chairman, Board of Directors, Doxiadis Urban Systems Inc., Washington D.C.
• Chairman, Board of Directors, Athens Technological Organization, Athens, Greece.
• President, Athens Center of Ekistics, Athens, Greece.

Awarded

• Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize of the International Union of Architects (1963).
• «Cali de 0ro» (The Mexican Gold Medal) Award of the Society of Mexican Architects (1963).
• Award of Excellence, Industrial Designers Society of America (1965).
• Aspen Award for the Humanities (1966).

Decorated

• Greek Military Cross, for his services during the war 1940 - 1941 (1941).
• Order of the British Empire, for his activities in the National Resistance and for his collaboration with the Allied Forces, Middle East (1945).
• Order of Cedar, Lebanon, for his contribution to the development of Lebanon (1958).
• Royal Order of the Phoenix, Greece, for his contribution to the development of Greece (1960).
• Yugoslav Flag Order with Golden Wreath (1966).

Author of

• Raumordnung im griechischen Staedtebau (1937).
• A Simple Story (1945).
• Ekistic Analysis (1946).
• Destruction of Towns and Villages in Greece (1946).
• A Plan for the Survival of the Greek Peoples (prepared in cooperation with several collaborators), 2 volumes (1947).
• Ekistic Policies for the Reconstruction of the Country with a 20-year Program (1947).
• Dodecanese  (prepared in cooperation with several scientists), 2 volumes (1947).
• March of the People (1948).
• 0ur Capital and its Future (a long-term policy and program for Athens) (I960).
• Architecture in Transition (in English, French. German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish) (1963).
• The New World of Urban Man (with T.B. Douglass) (1965).
• Urban Renewal and the Future of the American City (1966).
• Between Dystopia and Utopia (in English, Japanese and Spanish) (1966).
• Ekistics: An Introduction to the Science of Human Settlements (1968).
• Emergence and Growth of an Urban Region, the Developing Urban Detroit Area, vol. 1 (1966); vol. 2(1967); vol. 3 (1970). A project of the Detroit Edison Company, Wayne State University and Doxiadis Associates under the chairmanship of W.L. Cisler, Chairman of the Board, the Detroit Edison Company, directed by C.A. Doxiadis, and published by the Detroit Edison Company.
• Campus Planning in an Urban Area, A master plan for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, prepared by Doxiadis Associates, Praeger Publishers, Inc., New York, 1971.
• The Two-Headed Eagle, From the Past to the Future of Human Settlements, Lycabettus Press, Athens, 1972.
• Architectural Space in Ancient Greece, trs. by Jaqueline Tyrwhitt from the German original Raumordnung im griechischen Staedtebau, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.,1972.
• The Great Urban Crimes We Permit by Law, Lycabettus Press, Athens, 1973.
• Anthropopolis, City for Human Development, Athens Publishing Center, Athens, 1974.
• Ecumenopolis, the Inevitable City of the Future, in collaboration with J. Papaioannou, Athens Publishing Center, Athens, 1975
• Building Entopia, Athens Publishing Center, Athens, 1975.
• Action for Human Settlements, Athens Publishing Center, Athens, 1976.
• Ecology and Ekistics, edited by Professor Gerald Dix, Published by Elek Books Ltd. London 1977.
• Numerous articles in Greek and international journals

Major Projects

• In the application of his theories on Ekistics, C.A. Doxiadis studied, programmed,planned and designed, in collaboration with his colleagues, a great number of human settlements and other development projects. These projects cover several fields, like rural settlements, agriculture and irrigation, industrial settlements, manufacturing, power and public works, commerce and tourism, transportation and communications, housing, urban renewal and developmentof new cities,etc.

Brazil

• Plans and Programs for the Greater Rio de Janeiro (State of Guanabara).

• Tourist Development Studies and Master Plan for the City of Limassol.

• Axurn Cathedral.

• Development Study for the Mediterranean Region.
• Sub-division of France into major program and development regions.

• The new city of Tema for 500,000 people.
• Plans and Programs for the Accra- Tema Region.

• Tourist Development Studies for the Western Coast of Greece, and the Athens Coastline.
• Master Programs and Plans for the island of Rhodes, loarmina, Serres, and other cities.
• Designs for the Pierce College Campus, in Aghia Paraskevi, and a 500-bed hotel in Thessaloniki.
• New town of «Aspra Spitia».

• Tourist Development Studies for the South Aqaba Coastline.

• Tourist Development Studies for the Caspian Coast.

• National Housing Program.
• Plans and Programs for Baghdad and other major cities.

• Tourist Development Study near Otranto.

• National Housing Program and National Transport Plan.
• Regional Program and Plan for towns and villages of Cyrenaica.
• Planning of Marsa el Bregah and the city of Beida.

• Plans and Programs for Islamabad, the new capital.
• Greater Karachi Resettlement Program for 500,000 people.
• New Campus for the University of Panjab, Lahore, and the Agricultural University of Lyallpur.

• Plans and Programs for the capital city of Riyadh.

• Plans and Programs for the development of industrial poles in  E. and W. Andalusia.
• Tourist Development Studies for Andalusia and the eastern extension of the Costa del Sol.
• Regional Plans for the province of Guipuzcoa and the island of Tenerife.

• Plans and Programs for the Greater Khartoum and for Port Sudan.
• Land and Water Use Survey for a 90,000 sq.km. savanna area in the Kordofan province.

• Master Plan of the University of Aleppo.
• Plans and Programs for the cities of  Hama, Homs and Selemiyah.

• Research and Program for the Development of the Urban Detroit Area, in collaboration with Detroit Edison Company and Wayne State University.
• Research study for the Great Lakes Megalopolis, in collaboration with the Great Lakes Megalopolis Research Project, Inc.
• Urban Renewal and Development Plans for Eastwick, in Philadelphia, Pa.; Louisville Riverfront, Ky.;  Hampton Downtown, Va.; Georgetown Riverfront, Washington D.C.; Miami Downtown, Fla.; Downtown Columbia (S. Carolina).

• Plans and Programs for Lusaka, Kafue and other cities.
• Program for the resettlement of homeless people.

• Survey of the Trans-Asian Highway linking the Middle East with South-East Asia.
• African Transport Plan.
• Programs for the development of the River Plate Basin involving Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

(Source: EKISTICS, vol. 62,  Nos. 373/374/375, July/Aug.-Sept./Oct.-Nov./Dec.1995)