Part of the shared library of Charalampos Bouras and his wife, archaeologist Cornelia Hatziaslan-Boura, was donated to the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation in 2016. It mainly consists of journals, as well as books on subjects such as architecture, archaeology, folklore, and history.
Τhe library of Professor Charalampos Bouras and archaeologist Cornelia Hatziaslani-Boura (part)
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Number of items: 69
Biography
Charalampos Bouras (1933-2016) was an architect, monument restorer and academic. He was born in Preveza and grew up in Chios. He studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (Metsovio) and art history in Paris and was awarded Doctorates by the Universities of Thessaloniki and the Sorbonne. Having specialized in the study and restoration of monuments, both of classical antiquity and of the Byzantine and post-Byzantine periods, he taught history of architecture at the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University and at the School of Architects of the National Technical University of Athens. He was a member of the Central Archaeological Council, member and President of the Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis Monuments (ESMA) since 1975, Secretary General of the Christian Archaeological Society (XAE), member of the Boards of the Benaki Museum Board and the Acropolis Museum. He was honored with many awards, among of which the Commander of the Order of the Phoenix, by the President of the Hellenic Republic in 2002. He left a rich legacy of studies on ancient, Byzantine and modern monuments. — Cornelia Hatziaslani-Boura (1951) is an architect, archaeologist and author.