Author
Olaf Nicolai

Work
A 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 trait 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.

Publisher
Spector Books, Leipzig

Edition
750 copies

Format
8 pages
Images and text

ISBN
978-3-940064-86-8