<P> Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire . Byzantine architecture emphasized a Greek cross layout, the Byzantine capitol style of column (a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian capitols) and a central dome surrounded by several small domes </P> <P> During the Ottoman conquest, the Greek architecture was concentrated mainly on the Greek Orthodox churches of the Greek diaspora . These churches, much like other intellectual centres (foundations, schools, etc .) built by Greeks in Diaspora, were heavily influenced by the western European architecture . After the independence of Greece and during the nineteenth century, the Neoclassical architecture was heavily used for both public and private building . The 19th - century architecture of Athens and other cities of the Greek Kingdom is mostly influenced by the Neoclassical architecture, with architects like Theophil Hansen, Ernst Ziller and Stamatios Kleanthis . Regarding the churches, Greece also experienced the Neo-Byzantine revival . </P> <P> In 1933 the Athens Charter, a manifesto of the modernist movement, was signed, and was published later by Le Corbusier . Architects of this movement were among others: the Bauhaus - architect Ioannis Despotopoulos, Dimitris Pikionis, Patroklos Karantinos and Takis Zenetos . After World War II and the Greek civil war, the massive construction of condominiums in the major Greek city centres, was a major contributory factor for the Greek economy and the post-war recovery . The first skyscrapers were also constructed during the 1960s and 1970s, such as the OTE Tower and the Athens Tower Complex . </P> <P> During the 1960s and 1970s, Xenia was a nationwide hotel construction program initiated by the Hellenic Tourism Organisation (Ελληνικός Οργανισμός Τουρισμού, EOT) to improve the country's tourism infrastructure . It constitutes one of the largest infrastructure projects in modern Greek history . The first manager of the project was the architect Charalambos Sfaellos (from 1950 to 1958) and from 1957 the buildings were designed by a team under Aris Konstantinidis . </P>

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