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This index of the 100 (most) important - buildings, sites and neighbourhoods from Cyprus national Register was prepared in response to a call from Docomomo’s International Scientific Committee on Registers and submitted together with Cyprus chapter’s proposals for Docomomo’s new documentation strategy. Docomomo Cyprus, took this task as an opportunity to make an extended list of significant projects constructed roughly between 1920-1980. The goal was to resist focusing on single buildings and to include a sufficient number of sites and neighbourhoods throughout Cyprus, thus illustrating the impact of modern architecture in modernization processes and the shaping of built environment: from houses to factories and from simple structures to entire landscapes. Interested mostly on the time of the projects’ completion, no reference on their current condition is included: e.g. if they are demolished, altered or reused. The final index is simply organized in chronological order, to purposely avoid other types of categorizations while allowing an insight into the historical development of the Modern Movement in Cyprus. Ultimately limited to a 100 entries, this index does not claim to offer a (comprehensive) list of the most important projects in Cyprus; but it is to be considered as an “incomplete” list with some of the most important ones. Making this admission, we allow ourselves the chance to continue expanding and enriching this index in the future. The index was the result of a coordinated effort and input from many individual researchers on Cyprus modernism. Docomomo Cyprus coordinated and finalized the list and the design of this document.The various sources used for collecting material, info and images as well as individual contributors are cited below. The images within this publication may be protected by copyright; so the permission from the appropriate copyright holder is required to publish or reproduce. CONTRIBUTORS Erhan Oze Alexis Papadopoulos Petros Phokaides Christakis Sergidis Emilia Siandou Michalis Sioulas Archives Docomomo Cyprus Working Party - Fiches 2006-2009 Mesarch Laboratory - Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus Economou Architects and Engineers Archive Colakides Associates Archive Publications “Cyprus.” Special issue, Arhitektoniki 58 (1966). Georghiou, Costas. British colonial architecture in Cyprus: The Architecture of the British Colonial Administration, 1878-1960. Lefkosia: EN TIPIS PUBLICATIONS, 2013. Michael, Aimilios, Fereos, Stefanos, Konstantinou Christos and Eirini Hatzisavva-Adam, (eds.). Learning from the modern heritage. [Mathainontas apo tin klironomia tou Monternou, In Greek] (Exhibition catalogue for European heritage days) Nicosia: Ministry of Interior, 2009. Pyla Panayiota and Phokaides Petros. “Architecture and Modernity in Cyprus,” EAHN Newsletter No 2/09 [Newsletter of the European Architectural Historians Network], May 2009. Uraz T. U., H. Pulhan, P. Uluçay, H. Toprakçi, and Ö. Özbekoglu. Houses for the Others Between1955-1993 by the Architect Ahmet Vural Bahaeddin. Famagusta: Eastern Mediterranean University Press, 2006. (Exhibition leaflet, IX Docomomo Conference, Ankara, 2006.) Öze, E. (2011) “1878-1958 Colonial Architecture in Cyprus”, (Partially published) MA Thesis in History &Theory of Architecture,YTU, ISTANBUL
Docomomo Cy is Cyprus’s chapter of Docomomo International, a non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the modern movement for more than 25 years. © Docomomo Cyprus (Nicosia, 2014)