After a tour of Kypseli, these large houses remained in the memory. Early, small, palatial apartment buildings with three, five or six apartments, most often over 100 sq.m. each, luxurious by the standards of that time. Which season? We are talking about the years before 1930-32, that is, before the predominance of the (pre-war) modern apartment building type, with many interesting examples that Kipseli has to show. Small-apartment houses of the 20s.

I completed an experimental walk through Fokionos Negri. Climbing up the pedestrian street-esplanade-boulevard, I proceeded straight to St. George’s Square and went to Lelas Karagianni Street, the former Lemnos Street for the elders. High above, I reached the statue of the Dog and the small street of Sporgilos.

In a sense, I went around the center of Fokion and its branches in some places towards the interior of the city of Kypseli. I passed through my resources the urbanity of the old Patision, I joined this Athenianness, reflected in houses and apartment buildings, as if from mines in the bowels of the twentieth century.

I could say a lot about the scattered two-story houses, the Art Nouveau tenements built in the 1930s with such charming Art Deco elements, the tenements that condensed later when Kypseli rose even more in the 1950s and 60s. These tenement houses from the heyday of Kypseli, 1955-1965, stand as sculptural reliefs of vibrant urban development. There will come a time when all this will be appreciated and loved anew, but first I feel the need to confess the appeal of 1920s townhouses to me.

Perhaps because they did not shine for long, and then they were eclipsed by the gallop of elegant modernism of the 1930s. Kypseli, like other centers of middle-class culture (Kolonaki, Egypt Square, Victoria Square), cherished dreams of big cities for comfortable and synchronized living , and already in 1920 (years before the closing of the Levidis stream, on which Fokionos Negri was formed), the whole area welcomed the backbone of the bourgeoisie.

If one imagines the accumulation of urban life before 1930, one can see a continuum from Kolonaki to Naples, Exarchia, the Museum and the entire Pathision axis with its hinterland. Kypseli was a stronghold of the calm Athenians organized after 1937 around Fokionos. However, eclectic small apartment buildings have already been built, showing the demand for a high standard of living. There are several of these in Patision, as well as in Drosopoulos and Parodos. Lelas Karagianni and Drosopoulou, on opposite corners, there are such eclectic buildings. And also on the corner of Drosopoulos and Imvrou, on Tenedou street below Drosopoulos, on the corner of Kefalonia and Drosopoulos and in many other places in the upper part of Patision. Map of the history of movements within society in the interwar period.

But the high urban concentrations in Patision and Kypseli have not been exhausted and as a phenomenon they have not yet been fully studied. The history of Athens is being written and rewritten.