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Following the Second World War and a semi-clandestine life due to his active participation in the Greek Resistance, in 1946 Iannis Xenakis completed a degree in civil engineering at the Athens Polytechnic Institute. In 1947, escaping a prisoner's camp established by the conservative post-war government, he fled Athens with the intention of going to the United States. En route, he stopped in Paris where he was introduced to Le Corbusier, architect, with whom he began working on architectural...