polykatoikia

English

Etymology

From Greek πολυκατοικία (polykatoikía).

Noun

polykatoikia

1. (architecture) A type of concrete urban housing block in postwar Greece. [from 20th c.]
   • 2005, Ioanna Theocharopoulou, in Heynen & Baydar, Negotiating Domesticity, Routledge 2005, p. 68:

     Although architects and historians have voiced a profound sense of failure with regard to the polykatoikia, I want to argue for its positive aspects.

   • 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Country, Penguin, published 2020, page 307:

     This was the era of the polykatoikia, the apartment block built of unadorned concrete and typically five or six storeys high.