Meanings
plural polykatoikias · plural polykatoikies
- architectureA type of concrete urban housing block in postwar Greece.First known use 20th c.
This was the era of the polykatoikia, the apartment block built of unadorned concrete and typically five or six storeys high.
2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Country, Penguin, published 2020, page 3071 more example
Although architects and historians have voiced a profound sense of failure with regard to the polykatoikia, I want to argue for its positive aspects.
2005, Ioanna Theocharopoulou, in Heynen & Baydar, Negotiating Domesticity, Routledge 2005, p. 68
Origin
- Greekπολυκατοικία
- Englishpolykatoikia
From Greek πολυκατοικία (polykatoikía).
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