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turn-of-the-century manner." The plan of the house is based on multiple units of structural geometrical forms and utilises extensive brickwork in a postmodern, art & craft style. It was "designed in a vernacular manner, using building materials similar to those traditionally used in the area."
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without realising that the shop (then a dry cleaners) on the ground floor could not be used for residential purposes. He decided to open a bookshop. The Academy Bookshop began as a general bookshop. His first publications were finely bound limited editions of other publishers' books but he soon
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he had published, to design a house for him. "For his luxury mansion on his Greek-island-in-the-Thames, the great man chose not Michael Graves, one of the deconstructivists or even CZWG, but pragmatic classicist Basil Al Bayati, whom he instructed to design a country house in the English
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magazine. This created some controversy because of his non-architectural background and his unwillingness to give his unconditional support to one particular architectural style. The controversy increased with the publication of
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publishing company and the London Art Bookshop. He moved the shop to No. 8 Holland Street, just opposite the Academy Bookshop and set about expanding the combined Academy/Tiranti list. Early publications included Jim Burns's
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were awarded a joint gold medal by the American Independent Publishers' Association in 2006 as Outstanding Books of the Year, and his first science book
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As Papadakis's business ventures were increasingly successful, he purchased several properties for restoration, including the medieval Kilbees Farm in
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projects throughout the 1980s while Papadakis himself actively fostered the pluralist debate through seminars, conferences and exhibitions at the
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decided that he would prefer to make his own and began in 1967 with a large format paperback of
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In 1971 Papadakis expanded his fast-growing business with the acquisition of the
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in 1977, which was in its sixth edition by the time he sold Academy in 1990.
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in an exhibition titled the Architecture of Pluralism that included work by
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Latham, I. (30 September 1988). "Anniversaries: Edited Highlights".
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In 1990, Papadakis sold what was by now the Academy Group Ltd. with
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Thompson, K. (2007). "Book Review: Seeds, Time Capsules of Life".
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on 17 June 1938 and relocated to London in 1956. He obtained a
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and some twenty other internationally recognised architects.
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Pearman, H. (25 July 1993). "Function Follows Farm".
291:In 1997, Papadakis founded a new publishing house, 650: 366:In 1988, Church Island House was exhibited at the 202:In 1976 Papadakis bought the financially troubled 515:"Rise and Fall of PoMo King". (15 January 1993). 724: 628:. London: Academy Editions/St. Martin's Press. 197:Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism 129:. In 1964 he bought a house in Holland Street, 657:. London: Academy Editions/Ernst & Sohn. 532:. 17, p. 71. Cambridge University Press. 682: 671: 287:Papadakis Publisher and restoration projects 642: 602: 461: 459: 522: 498: 496: 474:. (18 August 2008). Retrieved 6 July 2021. 224:and Academy Editions continued to publish 763:Cypriot expatriates in the United Kingdom 688: 648: 623: 617: 550:. Retrieved 30 April 2009. Archived from 281:Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts 456: 333: 256:, and through his Academy Forums at the 215:The Language of Post-Modern Architecture 608:Aslet, C. (2005) Planner in the Works. 580: 493: 422: 420: 418: 416: 414: 412: 410: 53:) many international architects in the 14: 725: 565:"Fruit: Edible, Inedible, Incredible" 542:"Fruit: Edible, Inedible, Incredible" 557: 482: 480: 407: 37:. He opened the Academy Bookshop in 778:20th-century British businesspeople 535: 24: 748:Alumni of Brunel University London 509: 97:(No 16), etc.; and Victor Arwas's 25: 789: 753:Alumni of Imperial College London 711: 477: 338:Church Island House in the Thames 271:and the journals he had founded: 435:. (30 July 2008). Archived from 311:, leading to his election as a 173:Architecture Without Architects 442: 427:"Andreas Papadakis: Publisher" 13: 1: 400: 313:fellow of the Linnean Society 238:Polytechnic of Central London 104: 28:Andreas Constantine Papadakis 595:. p. 31. Archived from 7: 743:British publishers (people) 354:, an architect whose books 10: 794: 368:German Architecture Museum 325:Why the Lion Grew its Mane 309:Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 250:German Architecture Museum 689:Al Bayati, Basil (1988). 649:Al Bayati, Basil (1993). 624:Al Bayati, Basil (1988). 612:, 27 Jan . Available at: 593:Linnean Society of London 242:Architectural Association 164:Charles Rennie Mackintosh 450:Architectural Monographs 307:in association with the 273:Architectural Monographs 189:, Complete Graphic Works 55:Architectural Monographs 327:was long-listed by the 57:series, which included 339: 109:Papadakis was born in 530:Seed Science Research 389:In 2007 he purchased 337: 262:Royal Academy of Arts 146:Academy Editions and 773:Architecture critics 563:Richins, V. 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Index

Academy Editions
FLS
publishing
Holland Street
John Wiley
Rizzoli
St. Martin's Press
Alvar Aalto
Michael Graves
Edwin Lutyens
John Soane
Terry Farrell
Richard Rogers
Mies van der Rohe
Hassan Fathy
Tadao Ando
Daniel Libeskind
Nicosia
Cyprus
DIC
Imperial College
Brunel University
Kensington
Aubrey Beardsley
Biba
Tiranti
Rudofsky
Architecture Without Architects
Reyner Banham
Alphonse Mucha

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