Nicos Valsamakis, the son of Andreas Valsamakis of an established shipping family on the island of Cephalonia, and Penelope Lazarides, grew up in the centre of Athens, where his office has been located since 1961. As a youngster, he loved to draw, and in 1945 he enrolled at the School of Architecture at the Athens Metsovio Polytechnic School. > NEXT

Biography received a medal for bravery during the war.   1949   opened his private architectural office in Athens, where he still practises.   1953   Vice-President of the Greek Architectural Association.   1961   member of the Greek Architectural Society.   1977   Honorary Degree from the Aristotelian University of Salonika.   1991   Daidalos, a tourist village for Robinson Club in Kos, was elected a finalist for the 'Mies Van Der Rohe Pavilion Award for European Architecture'.   1992   founding member of the Greek Institute of Architecture.   1995   awarded Distinction in Letters and Arts the Greek Academy for his architectural work.   1999   Honorary Degree from the Architectural School of the National Technical Polytechnic School in Athens.   2001