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I recently attended a lecture at the Hellenic Institute of Architecture by Alexandros K. Samaras, an architect and longtime chairman of the Hellenic-American Educational Foundation’s Board of Directors, on Walter Gropius and his mid-1950s design for the US Embassy in Athens.