TITLE:
Industrial Buildings and Their Role in the Transformation of a Regional Greek City: The Tobacco Warehouses of Agrinio
AUTHORS:
Dora Monioudi-Gavala
KEYWORDS:
Tobacco, Warehouses, Architecture, Interwar, Greece, Agrinio
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Historical Studies,
Vol.5 No.2,
April
14,
2016
ABSTRACT: This paper presents the role of the tobacco warehouses in the urban transformation of the provincial
Greek city of Agrinio. It covers the period from the establishment of the Greek state in 1830 to
the end of the interwar period, with special focus on the 1920s and 1930s. The study of this particular
city is done within the broader historical environment of the Greek state, in which urban
planning and architecture are among the more general issues raised by the historical conditions.
The new data brought to light by the study show the significance of the tobacco warehouses in
shaping the city of Agrinio, as well as the influences from Central Europe on local industrial architecture
during the interwar years.