Architecture was born to serve ideological purposes. It emerged as an art or science through the need to construct temples, palaces, and monuments. When it expanded to organize space for the needs of broader social strata, it was almost always done to ensure the necessary functional conditions for the cohabitation of large populations.

If the recent modernization agenda of the crisis has inherently accepted the affirmation of the postmodern condition, the post-war version of the modernist vision was from the beginning infused with the influence of the reactionary Modernism of the 1930s, a movement that glorified technology and industrialization.

In the postmodern period, this ideology provided ample ready material for the production and theoretical support of a large number of scenographic architectural excesses in prominent locations of Greek cities.