Hoping to represent the "Generation of the 1930s" in arts and architecture, a Paris-educated circle was brought together in Athens by Michalis Tombros to introduce modernism and push back against academicism. Its first issue was urgently assembled to cover CIAM IV's Athens meeting, publishing Le Corbusier, Sigfried Giedion, Alberto Sartoris, and Christian Zervos alongside the work of Greek modernists like Karantinos, Kalyvas, and Stamo Papadaki, shown beside Aalto, Mendelsohn, Duiker, and Oud.
As Tombros stated, the magazine's central aim was to draw the attention of government bodies and officials to practical, contemporary architectural problems, though theoretical examinations of modern aesthetics also found a place in its pages.
The fourth and final known issue is a combined April–July–October 1934 number, suggesting the magazine's quarterly rhythm was already straining before it ceased. Despite its brief run, the periodical is cited in academic studies of the Greek interwar architectural press alongside titles like Αρχιμήδης, Έργα, and Τεχνικά Χρονικά.
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Confirmed directly from the colophon printed in all four surviving issues, supplemented by the magazine's own content. The list below is partial; the full board is being compiled.
Named explicitly as "Διευθυντής" / "Directeur" on the masthead of every surviving issue. Tombros was a leading Greek sculptor of his generation, not an architect by training, an unusual editorial profile for an architecture-adjacent review.
Tombros's cousin and close collaborator; his writing and organisational role are closely tied to the magazine's coverage of CIAM IV in Athens (1933), the subject of the first issue.
20th Century is referenced in recent academic scholarship on the Greek interwar architectural press; broader histories of the period provide useful context even where they do not discuss the title directly.
Scans of the four known issues were digitised from copies held in private and institutional collections. Pagination, OCR processing, and PDF assembly were carried out by the Architectural Periodicals Database team.
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