Background

Tzonis, Alexander was born on November 8, 1937 in Athens, Greece. Son of Constantinos and Chariclea (Xanthopoulos) Tzonis. arrived in The Netherlands, 1982.

Education

Diploma in architectural engineering, University of Technology, Athens, 1961. Master of Architecture, Yale University, 1963.

Career

Research assistant department architecture, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1965-1967; assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967-1975; associate professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975-1981; professor, U. Technology, Delft, Netherlands, since 1982.

Achievements

• Alexander Tzonis has been listed as a notable architecture educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Classical Architecture: The Poetics of Order

    ( This fascinating introduction to classical art and arch...)

  • Classical Greek Architecture: The Construction of the Modern

    (Three thousand years ago the Greeks built monuments that ...)

  • Architecture in Europe Since 1968: Memory and Invention

    (This work, winner of the 1992 American Institute of Archi...)

  • Movement, Structure and the Work of Sanitago Calatrava

    (The exploration of how movement and stationary form inter...)

  • Architecture in North America: Since 1960

    (This work traces the evolution of North American architec...)

  • Architecture in North America Since 1960

    (This work traces the evolution of North American architec...)

  • Shape of the Community

Connections

Married Liane Lefaivre.

Father:

Constantinos Tzonis

Mother:

Chariclea (Xanthopoulos) Tzonis

Spouse:

Liane Lefaivre.