Andreas Papadakis

[1] He was the first to publish (in the US - Rizzoli and latter St. Martin's Press) many international architects in the Architectural Monographs series,[2] which included Alvar Aalto (No 4), Michael Graves (No 5), Edwin Lutyens (No 6), John Soane (No 8), Terry Farrell (No 9), Richard Rogers (No 10), Mies van der Rohe (No 11), Hassan Fathy (No 13), Tadao Ando (No 14), Daniel Libeskind (No 16), etc.

His first publications were finely bound limited editions of other publishers' books but he soon decided that he would prefer to make his own and began in 1967 with a large format paperback of Aubrey Beardsley's prints, an ideal title to attract the customers of Biba, who had recently opened her shop just round the corner in Kensington Church Street.

[1][4][5] The controversy increased with the publication of Charles Jencks's The Language of Post-Modern Architecture in 1977, which was in its sixth edition by the time he sold Academy in 1990.

[1] As Papadakis's business ventures were increasingly successful, he purchased several properties for restoration, including the medieval Kilbees Farm in Winkfield, Berkshire, 107 Park Street and 9 Charles Street, both in Mayfair, London, 16 Grosvenor Place in Belgravia, and Dauntsey Park House in Wiltshire, although the latter project ended in 2005 when planning permission was refused.

"For his luxury mansion on his Greek-island-in-the-Thames, the great man chose not Michael Graves, one of the deconstructivists or even CZWG, but pragmatic classicist Basil Al Bayati, whom he instructed to design a country house in the English turn-of-the-century manner.

"[14] The plan of the house is based on multiple units of structural geometrical forms and utilises extensive brickwork in a postmodern, art & craft style.