RODAKIS

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AuthorOlaf Nicolai WorkA small but uncanny book. But also, a movie. But also, a poster.8 pages of images and text presenting Rodakis, Olaf Nicolai’s investigation into a personal t rait and an architectural myth. The story begins on the Greek island of Aegina, with a late-19th-century building attributed to Alexis Rodakis – a craftsman whose biography has largely dissolved into history. The house generated a passage of interpretations, including one by Adolf Loos. Olaf Nicolai traces the myth that surrounds it and the way it was embraced within modernist thought – and then works inside the gaps: the omission, the individual element, the man. Rodakis. PublisherSpector Books, Leipzig Edition750 copies Format8 pagesImages and text ISBN978-3-940064-86-8 Show more