Following on from a study carried out in Paris in 2013 on the Greek architects, engineers, surveyors, decorators and artists closely linked to the building arts, all graduates of Parisian schools, and after other research carried out in Thessalonica, it transpired that a great number of the architects involved in rebuilding the city after the great fire of 1917 were graduates of French schools. Two schools co-existed in Thessalonica in the inter-war period: one, that followed the academic tradition of the Paris École des beaux-arts and the style of Ernest Hébrard, its only representative in the city, and the other, between Art Deco and modernism, the option chosen by certain graduates of the École spéciale, without ever standing up to the conservative taste of those who commissioned their work, unlike their classmates who worked in Athens.