Background
Soon after he was born, his family moved to the island of Chios where he grew up.
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Ioannis Despotopoulos
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Education
He studied architecture in Hanover, Germany and graduated in 1927.
Career
He moved to Athens to study architecture. He was enrolled student at the National Technical University of Athens (National Technical University of Athens) until he quit and left for Weimar. lieutenant was 1930 when he returned to Greece.
By 1943 (during the occupation of Greece by Nazi Germany), Ioannis Despotopoulos became Professor at the School of Architecture at the North.T.U.A. In 1946, he was discharged from his position at the university and he moved to Sweden for a period between the years 1947 and 1961.
During his stay in Sweden, he worked as an architect and also taught at the Polytechnic Institutes of Stockholm and Goeteborg. He returned to Greece in 1961 and appointed immediately as a professor at the North.T.U.A. until 1968 when he retired.
He died in 1992.
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Nationality
Greece