Biographical Note
Kōnstantinos Apostolou Doxiadēs, architect and urban planner, was born in Stenimachos, Greece, on May 14, 1913. He graduated as an architect-engineer from the Technical University of Athens in 1935, and earned his doctorate in engineering in 1936 from the Berlin-Charlottenburg University in Berlin, Germany. In 1940, he married Emma Scheepers.
In 1951, he founded Doxiadis Associates, a private firm of consulting engineers, which grew to have offices around the world. Doxiadēs taught at the Athens Technical Institute as a professor of ekistics from 1958 to 1971. He published Ekistics: An Introduction to the Science of Human Settlements in 1968. He died in Greece on June 28, 1975.
Doxiadēs was primarily known as Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis.