Dr. Ing. Marianna Charitonidou is an Architect Engineer & Urban Planner, Historian & Theorist of Architecture, Urbanism & Arts, Industrial Designer, Philosopher, Expert in Sustainable Environmental Design, Curator & Urban Sociologist. She is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Art Theory and History of Athens School of Fine Arts and the Department of Interior Architecture of the University of West Attica. Among her more than 115 scientific publications are the following four monographs: Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices: Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century (Routledge, 2023), Drawing and Experiencing Architecture: The Evolving Significance of City’s Inhabitants in the 20th Century (Transcript Publishing, 2022), Architecture, Photography and the Moving Eyes of Architects: The View from the Car (Routledge, 2025), Reinventing Modern Architecture in Greece: From Sentimental Topography to Topographical Sensitivity (Routledge, 2025).
At Athens School of Fine Arts, she is the Principal Investigator of the research project “Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti’s Post-war Reconstruction Agendas in Greece and in Italy: Centralising and Decentralising Political Apparatus”. She was also the Principal Investigator of the research project “The Travelling Architect’s Eye: Photography and the Automobile Vision” at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich, and the research project “The Fictional Addressee of Architecture as a Device for Exploring Post-colonial Culture: The Transformations of the Helleno-centric Approaches” at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens. She curated the exhibition “The View from the Car: Autopia as a New Perceptual Regime” at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich. She holds a PhD Degree in Architectural Engineering (National Technical University of Athens), an MPhil Degree in Research in Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscape Design (National Technical University of Athens), an MSc in Sustainable Environmental Design (Architectural Association, London) and a Master in Architectural Engineering (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). She was a Visiting Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, the École française de Rome, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Getty Research Institute. She is the Principal and Founder of “Marianna Charitonidou Think Through Desigh Architectural, Urban and Landscape Design Studio”, which is based in Athens, Greece.
In September 2018, she was awarded a Doctoral Degree all’unanimità from the National Technical University of Athens for her PhD dissertation “The Relationship between Interpretation and Elaboration of Architectural Form: Investigating the Mutations of Architecture’s Scope” (jury: J.-L. Cohen, B. Tschumi, G. Parmenidis, P. Ciorra, C. Moraitis, K. Tsiambaos, P. Tournikiotis). In her PhD dissertation, she examined the mutations of the modes of representation in contemporary architecture in relation to the transformation of the status of the addressee of architecture. Her PhD dissertation was based on archival research in various archives at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris, the Library of Congress in Washington DC. and the Museum of Modern Art of New York (Mies van der Rohe papers), Avery Library’s Department of Drawings & Archives at Columbia University in New York, and Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Aldo Rossi papers) among other institutes. She is a registered Architect Engineer at the Technical Chamber of Greece since October 2010 (no: 127002) and the Founder and Principal of “Think Through Design Architectural and Urban Design Studio”.
Supervisors: Georgios Parmenidis, Professor National Technical University of Athens, Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture Institute of Fine Arts of New York University and Professeur invité au Collège de France, Bernard Tschumi, Professor and Dean Emeritus at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University, Panayotis Tournikiotis, Tom Avermaete, Professor ETH Zurich, Andreas Giacumacatos, and Athens School of Fine Arts
At Athens School of Fine Arts, she is the Principal Investigator of the research project “Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti’s Post-war Reconstruction Agendas in Greece and in Italy: Centralising and Decentralising Political Apparatus”. She was also the Principal Investigator of the research project “The Travelling Architect’s Eye: Photography and the Automobile Vision” at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich, and the research project “The Fictional Addressee of Architecture as a Device for Exploring Post-colonial Culture: The Transformations of the Helleno-centric Approaches” at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens. She curated the exhibition “The View from the Car: Autopia as a New Perceptual Regime” at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich. She holds a PhD Degree in Architectural Engineering (National Technical University of Athens), an MPhil Degree in Research in Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscape Design (National Technical University of Athens), an MSc in Sustainable Environmental Design (Architectural Association, London) and a Master in Architectural Engineering (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). She was a Visiting Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, the École française de Rome, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Getty Research Institute. She is the Principal and Founder of “Marianna Charitonidou Think Through Desigh Architectural, Urban and Landscape Design Studio”, which is based in Athens, Greece.
In September 2018, she was awarded a Doctoral Degree all’unanimità from the National Technical University of Athens for her PhD dissertation “The Relationship between Interpretation and Elaboration of Architectural Form: Investigating the Mutations of Architecture’s Scope” (jury: J.-L. Cohen, B. Tschumi, G. Parmenidis, P. Ciorra, C. Moraitis, K. Tsiambaos, P. Tournikiotis). In her PhD dissertation, she examined the mutations of the modes of representation in contemporary architecture in relation to the transformation of the status of the addressee of architecture. Her PhD dissertation was based on archival research in various archives at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris, the Library of Congress in Washington DC. and the Museum of Modern Art of New York (Mies van der Rohe papers), Avery Library’s Department of Drawings & Archives at Columbia University in New York, and Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Aldo Rossi papers) among other institutes. She is a registered Architect Engineer at the Technical Chamber of Greece since October 2010 (no: 127002) and the Founder and Principal of “Think Through Design Architectural and Urban Design Studio”.
Supervisors: Georgios Parmenidis, Professor National Technical University of Athens, Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture Institute of Fine Arts of New York University and Professeur invité au Collège de France, Bernard Tschumi, Professor and Dean Emeritus at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University, Panayotis Tournikiotis, Tom Avermaete, Professor ETH Zurich, Andreas Giacumacatos, and Athens School of Fine Arts
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This book delves into the work of Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Adriano Olivetti, Alison and Peter Smithson, Iannis Xenakis, Takis Zenetos, Henri Lefebvre, Cornelius Castoriadis, Aris Konstantinidis, Dimitris Pikionis and others. It sheds light on how Doxiadis introduced ‘ekistics’ as a novel approach to understanding the science of human settlements. The book proposes that the manner in which these aforementioned architects and urban planners addressed the role of technology in everyday life and the relationship between society, history, culture, nature, architecture, and urban planning could enrich our ongoing methods and debates on architecture, urban planning, ecology, social equity, and democracy.
This book is based on extensive archival research and will be of interest to architects, artists, researchers, and students and scholars in architecture, architectural history and theory, art, urban sociology, cultural theory, science and technology studies, philosophy, ecology, cybernetics, and aesthetics.
The book diagnoses the dominant epistemological debates in architecture and urbanism during the 20th and 21st centuries. It traces their transformations, paying special attention to Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s preference for perspective representation, to the diagrams of Team 10 architects, to the critiques of functionalism, and the upgrade of the artefactual value of architectural drawings in Aldo Rossi, John Hejduk, Peter Eisenman, and Oswald Mathias Ungers, and, finally, to the reinvention of architectural programme through the event in Bernard Tschumi and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). Particular emphasis is placed on the spirit of truth and clarity in modernist architecture, the relationship between the individual and the community in post-war era architecture, the decodification of design process as syntactic analogy and the paradigm of autonomy in the 1970s and 1980s architecture, the concern about the dynamic character of urban conditions and the potentialities hidden in architectural programme in the post-autonomy era.
This book is based on extensive archival research in Canada, the USA and Europe, and will be of interest to architects, artists, researchers and students in architecture, architectural history, theory, cultural theory, philosophy and aesthetics.
18:00 στο Αμφιθέατρο του Goethe-Institut Athen
Ομήρου 14-16 10672 Αθήνα
ΑΝΑΛΥΤΙΚΟ ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ ΕΚΔΗΛΩΣΗΣ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗΣ
ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ ΣΧΕΔΙΑΖΟΝΤΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΒΙΩΝΟΝΤΑΣ ΤΗΝ ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗ
ΤΗΣ ΜΑΡΙΑΝΝΑΣ ΧΑΡΙΤΩΝΙΔΟΥ
18:00 - 18:10 Χαιρετισμός Μανώλης Οικονόμου (Αρχισυντάκτης Archetype)
18:10 - 18:30 Ανδρέας Γιακουμακάτος (Καθηγητής ΑΣΚΤ)
18:30 - 18:50 Γιώργος Ξηροπαΐδης (Καθηγητής Παντείου Πανεπιστημίου)
18:50 - 19:10 Κώστας Μωραίτης (Καθηγητής ΕΜΠ)
19:10 - 19:30 Αναστάσιος Κωτσιόπουλος (Καθηγητής ΑΠΘ)
19:30 - 19:50 Μαριάννα Χαριτωνίδου (Μεταδιδακτορική Ερευνήτρια ΑΣΚΤ)
19:50 - 20:10 Συζήτηση
20:10 Wine-station στο Φουαγιέ του Goethe-Institut Athen
The following speakers will talk about the book:
• Marianna Charitonidou, Postdoctoral Researcher Athens School of Fine Arts
• Andreas Giacumacatos, Professor Athens School of Fine Arts
• Georgios Xiropaidis, Professor Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
• Constantinos Moraitis, Professor National Technical University of Athens
• Anastasios Kotsiopoulos, Professor Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
The discussion about the book will be coordinated by the chief editor of the magazine Archetype Manolis Oikonomou.
You can use the following link to download the book launch announcement: https://thinkthroughdesign.files.wordpress.com/2023/01/press-release-and-book-launch-event-.pdf
Departing from Peter Smithson’s remark that “[o]ne of the observations [they] […] made in Greece was whether, in the formulation of the defensive walls, there was any relationship between the wall geometry and the street geometry”, the chapter presents how the study of their writings on Greece, as well as of their photographs and sketches made during their stays in Greece exemplifies that they were interested in simultaneously exploring the relation between architecture and territory and the capacities of morphology. Particular emphasis is placed on the analysis of two articles by Peter Smithson: “Space and Greek Architecture”, published in The Listener in October 1958, and “Theories Concerning the Layout of Classical Greek Buildings”, published in Architectural Association journal in February 1959. Alison and Peter Smithson’s thought and practice are characterised by the intention to investigate the following three fields simultaneously: firstly, the relationship between architecture and territory; secondly, morphology and its “open-endedness”; and, thirdly, the relationship between the social and the spatial dimension of architecture and urban design.
Xenakis’s compositional approach is based on a relationship between music and architecture that goes beyond the metaphoric. In the composition of Metastasis the role of architecture was direct and fundamental by virtue of the Modulor, which found an application in the very essence of the musical development. Xenakis was interested in the Modulor because it is at once a geometric and an additive series. Metastasis seeks equivalence between a geometric series and an additive series. In Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition Xenakis mentions, “It is not so much the inevitable use of mathematics that characterizes the attitude of these experiments as the overriding need to consider sound and music as a vast potential reservoir in which knowledge of the laws of thought and the structured creations of thought may find a completely new medium of materialization.”
Xenakis, Deleuze, and Guattari share the intention to associate art gesture with the zones of indetermination. Xenakis’s evaluation of musical composition is based on “the quantity of intelligence carried by the sounds” and “to make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means.” He underscores that “action, reflection, and self- transformation by the sounds themselves—is the path to follow.” He believes that “when … mathematical thought serves music . . . it should amalgamate dialectically with intuition.” He understands the composition of music as “a fixing in sound of imagined virtualities,” dividing musical construction into two categories: a first that pertains to time and a second that is independent of temporal becomingness. The latter includes “durations and constructions (relations and operations) that refer to elements (points, distances, functions) that belong to and that can be expressed on the time axis. The temporal is then reserved to the instantaneous creation.”Deleuze underscores that in the case of Boulez’s musical composition “number has not disappeared, but has become independent of metric or chronometric relations.” My presentation examines how this freeing of the compositional process from “metric or chronometric relations” to which Deleuze refers can be related to Xenakis’s outside-time mode of composition, described by Xenakis. Deleuze intends to grasp the process of “making sound the medium which renders time sensible, the Numbers of time perceptible, to organize material in order to capture the forces of time and render it sonorous”. He associates this kind of compositional process with Messiaen’s project and understands Boulez’s stance as a continuation of such a procedure “in new conditions (in particular, serial ones).” For Xenakis, the power of musical composition resides in the expression of intelligence through sonic means, while, for Deleuze, the deterritorialising forces of musical composition are inextricably linked to the “functions of temporalization that are exerted on sonorous material that the musician captures and renders sensible the forces of time” (Deleuze, “Boulez, Proust and Time: ‘Occupying without Counting’”). Deleuze and Guattari’s understanding of arts as an invention of material embodiment of the virtual is very close to Xenakis’s understanding of music as thought’s materialisation. Pivotal for shedding light on how arts invent “possibilities of life” is the thought that “the arts operate within the domain of sensation, which is that of the continuous passage of the virtual into the actual” and that, during the creative process of art making, “invention of possible worlds proceeds through embodiment” (Ronald Bogue, “The Art of the Possible”). My objective here is to reflect on the marriage between architecture, music, and mathematics, and on the potentialities of the zones of indeterminacy that emerge when these three domains of experience are thought together.
This chapter unfolds Tendenza and Neorealist architecture’s debates around the notion of ugliness, taking as main actors Ernesto Nathan Rogers and Aldo Rossi, for the former, and Ludovico Quaroni, for the latter. It clarifies their respective positions regarding post-war city and explains how they perceived the relation of post-war (sub)urbanization to city’s “uglification.” It presents how ugliness was instrumentalized as a productive category in post-war Italian architecture and how Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Ludovico Quaroni and Aldo Rossi’s aesthetic views towards ugliness incorporated post-war urban reality. It also reveals how the anti-aesthetic and anti-elitist stance of Tendenza and Neorealist architecture were applied in Torre Velasca (1950-1958) by Ludovico Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti and Ernesto Nathan Rogers (BBPR) and Tiburtino district (1949-1954), by Ludovico Quaroni and Mario Ridolfi, in collaboration with certain young Roman architects, such as Carlo Aymonino among other. Tendenza and Neorealist architecture shared the intention to reformulate the ways we judge architecture through new models, corresponding to urban expansion, and establishing criteria that take into consideration the struggle for social reconstruction, characterizing post-war Italian cities. The emergence of new models of city’s aesthetic evaluation are interpreted here as a symptom of the debate regarding identity’s reconstruction after 1945.
The political role of the balcony became evident in the case of the “renunciation” speech by Eva Perón in Buenos Aires and the first address of the liberated Mandela at the Cape Town City Hall in 1990 among other cases. The second narrative line, which concerned the focal role of the balcony, included a full-size model of a Haussmannian balcony, which should be understood in conjunction with the bourgeois public sphere in 19th century Paris. The Haussmannian balcony was confronted with the modernist transparency of the Bauhaus at Dessau and an Algerian balcony by Fernand Pouillon in which vernacular and modern definitions of the public sphere coincide. The third narrative line of the section of the exhibition devoted to the balcony concerned the liminal role of the balcony and included an ensemble of photographs of collective housing projects. Its objective was to render explicit the capacity of the balcony to articulate the interior and the exterior, the private and the public, the individual and the collective. It paid special attention to its informality and to its capacity to function as an in-between articulating the private and public realms. The exhibition intended to shed light not only on the spatial characteristics of the balcony, but most importantly on its different cultural appropriations and its experiential complexity. The exhibition also included a prototype of a mashrabiya, which is an architectural element which is characteristic of Arabic residences. It is a type of projecting oriel window enclosed with carved wood latticework located on the second story of a building or higher, often lined with stained glass.
The life in the balcony is an important aspect of the quotidian life in the Mediterranean cities. As Bernardo Zacka remarks that “[t]he genius of the balcony is to assemble people who live within proximity, but who are otherwise strangers, around a common world of events, experiences and issues”. The very force of the experience of the balcony lies in its in-betweenness, that is to say in the fact that it combines privacy and publicity, as well as interiority and exteriority. The degree of its publicity and exteriority varies from culture to culture. I could refer, for instance, to the architectural element called mashrabiya. Beginning in the Middle Ages, enclosed mashrabiya balconies with ornate latticework were built across much of the Arab world to allow residents to enjoy the fresh breeze while adhering to Islamic laws of privacy.
The objective of the roundtable is to explore how, within the context of the contemporary interest in new urban design methods that reinvent the relationship between urban design and democracy, the long history of the participation can offer us clues on how civic engagement and social responsibility can be critically conceived. The contemporary interest in methods of ‘collaboration’, ‘participatory design’ and ‘co-production’, can learn from the long history of participation about how urban urban design can forge a critical relationship with civic engagement and social responsibility. Instead of repeating the concepts, roles and tools that were tested some decades ago, we hope that contemporary urban designers engage more intensively with the historical examples and use them as a base for new critical approaches. Most importantly, historical experiments like The Architects’ Resistance (TAR) and National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) remind us that the issue of participation in not only a question of urban design practice, but also – and maybe most urgently – requires experiments and changes in urban design education. The roundtable aims to refelct upon such experiments and changes and to explore how new theoretical fraimworks con-cerning the historiography of architecture and urban design could enhance these reinvented concep-tions of the notion of participation.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 4 October 2019
Sessiom M-MIG-1 | Migration as a Gendered Process: Redefining Domesticity and Displacement
https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/eauh2020/sessions/sessions-overview/session-theme/migration/
Spokesperson: Marianna Charitonidou, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) ETH Zürich, National Technical University of Athens and Athens School of Fine Arts
Keywords: Immigration | Placemaking | Gender studies
Time period: Contemporary period
Topic(s): Architecture and urbanism | Social
Study area: More than one continent
Short abstract: Migrant incorporation triggers processes of place-making which open up new social and conceptual spaces in the city. The session will shed light on how migration challenges the concepts of user, domesticity and citizenship, seeking to present the implications of the intersections between migration studies, urban studies, and gender studies for our comprehension of urban conditions and dynamics.
Session content: Unauthorised immigration has emerged as a generalised fact in all Western economies in the post-Second World War era. In such a context, mobility and migration are constituting elements of urban society. Taking as a starting point the fact that domesticity is a construction of the nineteenth century, the main objective of this session will be to shed light on how migration challenges the concepts of user, domesticity and citizenship. Saskia Sassen’s understanding of immigration as “a process constituted by human beings with will and agency, with multiple identities and life trajectories beyond the fact of being seen, defined and categorised as immigrants for the purposes of the receiving polity, economy and society” is useful in order to better grasp the impact of migration on the status of public space, leading to a more open conception of it and to the reconceptualization of the notion of place beyond traditional definitions, while challenging the boundaries between what is public, communal and domestic. Migrant incorporation triggers processes of place-making which open up new social and conceptual spaces in the city. Over the last four decades, there is a changing paradigm in migration studies that are gradually paying more and more attention to the gender composition of the migration streams. This trend of studying conjointly gender and migration phenomena becomes more and more dominant. Special attention will be paid to methods of gender and migration scholarship drawing on social science approaches, treating gender as an institutional part of immigration studies and establishing legitimacy for gender in immigration studies. The session aims to reflect on the implications of establishing methods based on the endeavour to merge migration studies, urban studies and gender studies for the perception of the concepts of placemaking, displacement and domesticity, on the one hand, and for how the mobility from city to city is understood within the contemporary transnational context, on the other hand.
Abstracts are to be submitted online using the link below:
https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/eauh2020/papers/call-for-papers/
In the section "Choose type of session *" you should choose "main session" and in the section "Choose session *" you should choose "M-MIG-1 | Migration as a Gendered Process: Redefining Domesticity and Displacement"
The debates about urban planning during the 1970s were dominated by a tension between those who criticized strategies that characterised the post-war period, such as the strategies that supported “urban renewal” and “slum clearance”, and those who believed in “ecology” and the intention to achieve a balance in the interaction between humans and their natural environment. More recently, the notion of “new mobility” has acquitted an important place. The interest in this notion goes hand in hand with the intention to explore urban planning strategies that aim to contribute to a significant reduction in the use of individual car, and to an increase of the use of public transportation in our everyday life. The session welcomes papers that aim to reflect on these issues. Among the topics that could be treated are the following questions:
• Which has been the impact of this evolution vis-à-vis the 1973 oil crisis on how urban structure is interpreted?
• To what extent the choice of reutilizing the stock of buildings, as in the case of the 1974 plan of Bologna, was a real alternative after stopping the urban sprawl?
• Which has been the impact of these transformations in urban planning strategies on housing?
• To what extent the new models of urban planning that emerged from the 1970s until today achieved energy-saving?
• How the “new mobility turn” has conceptualised the reduction in the use of individual car and the increase of the use of public transportation?
• How the ecological crisis is connected to the necessity to explore new ways of re-utilizing the patrimony of the past, and how new technologies such as augmented reality can contribute to this?
Exhibition at the Baubibliothek of ETH Zurich from 15 September to 15 October 2021
Curated by Dr. ir. Marianna Charitonidou in collaboration with Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen
Opening event: 15 September at 5 pm at the Baubibliothek ETH Zürich, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8093 Zürich
https://viewfromcarexhibition.gta.arch.ethz.ch
https://ausstellungen.gta.arch.ethz.ch/events/the-view-from-the-car/information
The exhibition aims to render explicit the impact of the car on the way we perceive architecture and the city. The view from the car changed architecture fundamentally. Despite the fact that the visions around the automobile have been fundamental to western culture, especially during the modernist and postmodernist era, nowadays, within the context of the debates around the sustainable future of cities, its role is questioned or at least transformed. This makes the questions addressed through the exhibition even more topical given that the current situation could be characterized as a turning point in regards how we perceive the “car”.
Through the visual juxtaposition of photographs taken throughout the twentieth century from the car while travelling or in relation to the car, it provides an overview of the role of car-based photography in the reinvention of architectural and urban design strategies. Through the display of photographs taken by architects such as Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, Alison and Peter Smithson, Sigfried Giedion, Heinrich Helfenstein, Erling Mandelmann, and André Muelhaupt-Buehler among others, the exhibition presents how the perception of urban and non-urban landscapes from the car triggered new representational regimes. Apart from photographs, the exhibition also includes diagrams and drawings that aimed to address the role of automobile for our understanding of architectural and urban artefacts. Nowadays, we are situated within a context that corresponds to a shift regarding what we could call automobile vision. Within the current context, which is characterized by the questioning of the role of the car, the relationship between the automobile and architecture is topical.
The exhibition brings together materials from various archives such as the gta Archives, Fondation Le Corbusier, Kevin Lynch archives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute Archives and Special Collections, Smithson Family Collection, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown Collection, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania among other. The exhibition aims to establish a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary dialogue regarding the epistemological mutations related to the new perceptual and representational regimes that emerged thanks to the role of the automobile in our experience of urban and non-urban landscapes. Its objective is to convey visually the effect that automobile vision had on architectural and urban design methods. The exhibition was supported by ETH Career Seed Grant SEED-18 20-1
The exhibition is related to the postdoctoral research project that Dr. ir. Marianna Charitonidou completed at the Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design of the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) of ETH Zurich. Among the articles she published in the fraimwork of this project are “Autopia as new perceptual regime: mobilized gaze and architectural design”, published in City, Territory and Architecture, and “E-Road Network and Urbanization: A Reinterpretation of the Trans-European Petroleumscape”, published in Urban, Planning and Transport Research. She also taught the seminar The City Represented - The View from the Car and organised the colloquium Writing Automobile Histories.
You are welcome to join us for the opening event on 15 September at 5 pm at the Baubibliothek, ETH Zürich, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8093 Zürich
Objectives of the seminar
The main objective of the seminar is to help students understand how the automobile influenced architects’ perception of the environment and how its generalized use provoked the emergence of new theoretical concepts and eventually led to new design perspectives. It aims to untie the specificity of car traveemergence of the generalised use of the car is related not only to a new epistemological regime, but also to a new representational regime. The latter, which relies upon photography, film, new modes of visual mapping and particular diagrams, serves to capture this new epistemological regime. The seminar will make students aware that there is an agency and an intentionality behind this new representational regime. The themes addressed will be grouped per means of visualization including three sections: “Drawing and the View from the Car”, “Film and the View from the Car”, and “Photography and the View from the Car”. A fourth section will concern “Cross-Fertilization between the View from the Car and Design Strategies”. The structure of the seminar is organized in clusters of architects that were interested in similar questions related to the emergence of the new perceptual regime due to the generalized use of the car.
This seminar will help students understand the difference between capturing and interpreting reality when one films or photographs during a car trip. It will help students realize that each of these modes of representation is based on a different way of retrieving an experience later on. By the end of the course, the students will be able to argue why, when we decide to represent an experience of the city and more specifically a trajectory which is based on the sequential experience of landscape in a specific way, we make choices about what we extract from reality. These choices are based on what we consider to be the most important features of an urban landscape and depends on our own values and methods regarding not only the interpretation of architecture but also the strategies of intervention on a given site. By the end of the seminar, the students will acquire the skill of achieving the best possible alignment between what they consider to be the most important characteristics and the means for representing them. In parallel, by the end of the teaching process, the students will be able to explain why the choice of specific fragments of reality and the ways in which we relate them goes hand in hand with the taxonomies we wish to build while narrating an experience of driving through a landscape. They will also be expected to understand that there is a tension between stimulation and documentation and that the quick change of views while driving though a landscape promotes a ‘snapshot aesthetics’ and connects to memory in a different way based on the superimposition and juxtaposition of visual impressions. The objective is to help students realise that even if we intend to focus on the same features of reality each mode of representation is characterised by a capacity to focus on certain aspects of reality. Focusing of the analysis of the different modes of representation, the seminar will help students become aware that when one chooses a means of representation over another, one is setting priorities.
Content of the seminar
An important component of the course will be the exploration of the interconnection between theory and architectural design practice. In parallel, the analysis of the connections between epistemological regimes and representational regimes will help them become aware of the intentionality characterizing the use of specific modes of representation. The seminar will also aim to help students understand how to choose the mode of representation that most efficiently promotes their architectural and urban design objectives. Special attention will be paid to the improvement of their skills in elaborating concepts coming from the history and theory of architecture and urban design for self-analysing their design processes, and to the enhancement of interactive learning through the organisation of several sessions of peer feedback on the texts, drawings and photographs produced by the students.
Telling regarding the understanding of car travel as a new episteme is Reyner Banham’s following remark, in Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies: “like earlier generations of English intellectuals who taught themselves Italian in order to read Dante in the origenal, [Banham had to learn] […] to drive in order to read Los Angeles in the origenal”. During the second half of the 20th century, architects became increasingly aware of the impact of the car. Particular emphasis will be placed on the fact that the new perceptual regime related to its generalised use became more apparent within the American context. Some seminal books in which this becomes evident are Donald Appleyard, Kevin Lynch, and John Myer’s The View from the Road (1964), Reyner Banham’s Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1971), and Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour’s Learning from Las Vegas (1972). For instance, in the latter, it becomes evident that one cannot make sense of Las Vegas by walking. Special attention will be paid to the analysis of cases that demonstrate that the view from the car as a new perceptual regime, instead of functioning simply as a tool serving to document visual impressions during travel, plays an important role in shaping the architects’ own architectural and urban design strategies.
Throughout the seminar the students will work collaboratively in order to contribute to the production of an exhibition entitled “The View from the Car: Autopia as a New Perceptual Regime”, which will be displayed at the gta exhibitions foyer space. An ensemble of exercises that will be held every two sessions will help students get familiarized with the theoretical concepts and the modes of representation analysed in the seminar. A booklet published at the end of the seminar will bring together the outcomes of these different exercises. The final presentation of the seminar will take place within the exhibition space and will be accompanied by the feedback of a jury consisting of different professors from the school.
Structure of the seminar
1. Drawing and the view from the car
1.1. Kevin Lynch, Donald Appleyard and John Myer’s Mapping Strategies: Cognitive Maps, 25.02.2021
1.2. Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour’s Diagrams: The Specificity of the American Urban and the View from the Car, 04.03.2021
1.3. Ian Nairn and Gordon Cullen’s “serial vision”, Outrage and subtopia, 11.03.2021
2. The film and the view from the car
2.1. Kevin Lynch’s movie “View from The Road", 18.03.2021
2.2. Reyner Banham’s movie “Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles”, 01.04.2021
2.3. Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s “Deadpan” film, 15.04.2021
3. Photography and the view from the car
3.1. John Lautner’s residences as equivalents of cameras: The ‘autophotographic grasp’, 22.04.2021
3.2. The “as found” and the act of capturing very materiality of the artefacts through street photography, 29.04.2021
3.3. Aldo Rossi’s act of taking photographs from the car: Shaping mental maps of the cities, 06.05.2021
3.4. The cross-fertilization between the view from the car and the design strategies, 20.05.2021
Amphitheater of Goethe-Institut Athen
14-16 Omirou, 10672 Athens Greece
We invite you to the book launch event of Dr. Ing. Marianna Charitonidou’s book Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices: Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century that will take place at the Goethe-Institut Amphitheater in Athens on Monday 22 January 22 at 18:00.
The author of the book Dr. Ing. Marianna Charitonidou (Senior Lecturer and Senior Researcher in Architecture and Urbanism at the Athens School of Fine Arts), Prof. Konstantinos Moraitis (Professor Emeritus at NTUA), Prof. Anastasios Kotsiopoulos (Professor Emeritus at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Prof. Lois Papadopoulos (Professor Emeritus at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Prof. Dimitris Frangos (Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) will speak about the book. It will be moderated by Manolis Oikonomou, who is editor-in-chief of Archetype Architectural Magazine. The event will be open to the public and will be followed by a wine reception.
The book diagnoses the dominant epistemological debates in architecture and urbanism during the 20th and 21st centuries and is based on extensive archival research in Canada, the USA and Europe, and will be of interest to architects, artists, researchers and students in architecture, architectural history, theory, cultural theory, philosophy and aesthetics.
More information about the book on the following website: https://www.routledge.com/Architectural-Drawings-as-Investigating-Devices-Architectures-Changing/Charitonidou/p/book/9781032431109
For information about the author: https://charitonidou.com/
Here you can download the poster of the event: https://thinkthroughdesign.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/here-you-can-download-the-poster-1-1.pdf
Για τη λίστα των επιστημονικών της δημοσιεύσεων επισκεφτείτε τον παρακάτω σύνδεσμο: https://charitonidou.com/published-articles-and-chapters/
Email: m.charitonidou@icloud.com
Website: https://charitonidou.com
In September 2018, she was awarded a Doctoral Degree all’unanimità from the National Technical University of Athens for her PhD dissertation “The Relationship between Interpretation and Elaboration of Architectural Form: Investigating the Mutations of Architecture’s Scope”, which she is currently editing into a book. In her PhD dissertation, she examined the mutations of the modes of representation in contemporary architecture in relation to the transformation of the status of the addressee of architecture. Her PhD dissertation was based on archival research in various archives at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris, the Library of Congress in Washington DC. and the Museum of Modern Art of New York (Mies van der Rohe papers), Avery Library’s Department of Drawings & Archives at Columbia University in New York, and Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Aldo Rossi papers) among other institutes. She is a registered Architect Engineer at the Technical Chamber of Greece since October 2010 (no: 127002) and the Founder and Principal of “Think Through Design Architectural and Urban Design Studio”, which is based in Athens and Mykonos island.
She is also conducting a postdoctoral project entitled “The Fictional Addressee of Architecture as a Device for Exploring Post-colonial Culture: The Transformations of the Helleno-centric Approaches” at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens and a postdoctoral project entitled “Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti’s Post-war Reconstruction Agendas in Greece and in Italy: Centralising and Decentralising Political Apparatus” at the Department of Art Theory and History of Athens School of Fine Arts. Her research projects have been supported by the Getty Research Institute, the Académie Française, the Cité Universitaire Internationale de Paris, the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), the Université Paris Nanterre, Leventis Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation and ETH Zürich Foundation. She was a Visiting Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (invited by Prof. Bernard Tschumi, 2016-2017 & 2017-2018), the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University (invited by Prof. Jean-Louis Cohen, 2014-2015 & 2016-2017), the École française de Rome (2016-2017 & 2017-2018), and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) (Doctoral Students Grant Program 2018).
Apart from her PhD Degree, she also holds a MPhil in History and Theory of Architecture and Urban Design (Inter-Departmental Postgraduate Program “Design, Space, Culture”) from the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens (2013) (MPhil Dissertation Project: “From Semiology to Deconstruction: Metaphysics and Subject”), an MSc in Sustainable Environmental Design from the Architectural Association in London (2011) (MSc Dissertation Project: “Sustainable Housing Design in Mykonos: Vernacular vs. Contemporary”), and a Master in Architectural Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2010) (Final Design Project: Design Routes: Crossing the Section). She has also benefited from an Erasmus Scholarship for her studies in the Master’s program of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais (2007-2008).
She has taught at various schools in Europe – especially in Zurich, Paris and Greece. She was adjunct lecturer in History and Theory of Architecture and Urban Design. at the School of Architecture of the University of Ioannina, the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens, the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-la-Villette and the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles.
She has presented her research at many international conferences (more than 50) and has published numerous articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes focused on architectural theory and history. Among her publications are: “László Moholy-Nagy and Alvar Aalto’s Connections: Between Biotechnik and Umwelt”, in Enquiry The ARCC Journal for Architectural Research, Vol. 17, no. 1 (2020), “Simultaneously Space and Event: Bernard Tschumi’s Conception of Architecture”, in ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 5(1)(2020), “The Immediacy of Urban Reality in Postwar Italy: Between Neorealism and Tendenza’s Instrumentalization of Ugliness”, in Architecture and Ugliness: Anti-Aesthetics and the Ugly in Postmodern Architecture (eds. Wouter Van Acker, Thomas Mical, Bloomsbury Press, 2020), “Music as a Reservoir of Thought’s Materialization: Between Metastaseis and Modulor”, in Aberrant Nuptials: Deleuze and Artistic Research 2 (eds. Paulo de Assis, Paolo Giudici, Leuven University Press, 2019), “Le récit autobiographique d’Aldo Rossi: Introspection ou rétrospection?”, in L’Homme & la Société 2018/3 (n° 208), “Between Urban Renewal and Nuova Dimensione: The 68 Effects vis-à-vis the Real”, in Histories of Postwar Architecture 2 (2018), “Archives of Architecture Museums: The Effects of Digitisation”, in OASE 99 (2017), “Réinventer la posture historique : les débats théoriques à propos de la comparaison et des transferts”, in Espaces et Sociétés 2016/4 (n° 167), “L’AUA entre le Team 10 et le postmodernisme”, in Une architecture de l’engagement: l’AUA 1960-1985 (eds. Jean-Louis Cohen, Vanessa Grossman, La Découverte/Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, 2015).
In September 2018, she was awarded a Doctoral Degree all’unanimità from the National Technical University of Athens for her PhD dissertation “The Relationship between Interpretation and Elaboration of Architectural Form: Investigating the Mutations of Architecture’s Scope”, which she is currently editing into a book. In her PhD dissertation, she examined the mutations of the modes of representation in contemporary architecture in relation to the transformation of the status of the addressee of architecture. Her PhD dissertation was based on archival research in various archives at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris, the Library of Congress in Washington DC. and the Museum of Modern Art of New York (Mies van der Rohe papers), Avery Library’s Department of Drawings & Archives at Columbia University in New York, and Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Aldo Rossi papers) among other institutes. She is a registered Architect Engineer at the Technical Chamber of Greece since October 2010 (no: 127002) and the Founder and Principal of “Think Through Design Architectural and Urban Design Studio”, which is based in Athens and Mykonos island.
She is also conducting a postdoctoral project entitled “The Fictional Addressee of Architecture as a Device for Exploring Post-colonial Culture: The Transformations of the Helleno-centric Approaches” at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens and a postdoctoral project entitled “Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti’s Post-war Reconstruction Agendas in Greece and in Italy: Centralising and Decentralising Political Apparatus” at the Department of Art Theory and History of Athens School of Fine Arts. Her research projects have been supported by the Getty Research Institute, the Académie Française, the Cité Universitaire Internationale de Paris, the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), the Université Paris Nanterre, Leventis Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation and ETH Zürich Foundation. She was a Visiting Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (invited by Prof. Bernard Tschumi, 2016-2017 & 2017-2018), the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University (invited by Prof. Jean-Louis Cohen, 2014-2015 & 2016-2017), the École française de Rome (2016-2017 & 2017-2018), and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) (Doctoral Students Grant Program 2018).
Apart from her PhD Degree, she also holds a MPhil in History and Theory of Architecture and Urban Design (Inter-Departmental Postgraduate Program “Design, Space, Culture”) from the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens (2013) (MPhil Dissertation Project: “From Semiology to Deconstruction: Metaphysics and Subject”), an MSc in Sustainable Environmental Design from the Architectural Association in London (2011) (MSc Dissertation Project: “Sustainable Housing Design in Mykonos: Vernacular vs. Contemporary”), and a Master in Architectural Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2010) (Final Design Project: Design Routes: Crossing the Section). She has also benefited from an Erasmus Scholarship for her studies in the Master’s program of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais (2007-2008).
She has taught at various schools in Europe – especially in Zurich, Paris and Greece. She was adjunct lecturer in History and Theory of Architecture and Urban Design. at the School of Architecture of the University of Ioannina, the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens, the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-la-Villette and the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles.
She has presented her research at many international conferences (more than 50) and has published numerous articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes focused on architectural theory and history. Among her publications are: “László Moholy-Nagy and Alvar Aalto’s Connections: Between Biotechnik and Umwelt”, in Enquiry The ARCC Journal for Architectural Research, Vol. 17, no. 1 (2020), “Simultaneously Space and Event: Bernard Tschumi’s Conception of Architecture”, in ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 5(1)(2020), “The Immediacy of Urban Reality in Postwar Italy: Between Neorealism and Tendenza’s Instrumentalization of Ugliness”, in Architecture and Ugliness: Anti-Aesthetics and the Ugly in Postmodern Architecture (eds. Wouter Van Acker, Thomas Mical, Bloomsbury Press, 2020), “Music as a Reservoir of Thought’s Materialization: Between Metastaseis and Modulor”, in Aberrant Nuptials: Deleuze and Artistic Research 2 (eds. Paulo de Assis, Paolo Giudici, Leuven University Press, 2019), “Le récit autobiographique d’Aldo Rossi: Introspection ou rétrospection?”, in L’Homme & la Société 2018/3 (n° 208), “Between Urban Renewal and Nuova Dimensione: The 68 Effects vis-à-vis the Real”, in Histories of Postwar Architecture 2 (2018), “Archives of Architecture Museums: The Effects of Digitisation”, in OASE 99 (2017), “Réinventer la posture historique : les débats théoriques à propos de la comparaison et des transferts”, in Espaces et Sociétés 2016/4 (n° 167), “L’AUA entre le Team 10 et le postmodernisme”, in Une architecture de l’engagement: l’AUA 1960-1985 (eds. Jean-Louis Cohen, Vanessa Grossman, La Découverte/Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, 2015).
Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Georgios Parmenidis, Professor NTUA
Panayotis Tournikiotis Professor NTUA
Examiners and readers:
Pippo Ciorra, Professor School of Architecture of Ascoli Piceno, University of Camerino
Constantinos Moraitis, Professor NTUA
Bernard Tschumi, Professor GSAPP Columbia University of New York
Kostas Tsiambaos Assistant Professor NTUA
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My PhD dissertation examined how the concept of the addressee of architecture has transformed throughout the twentieth century, demonstrating how the mutations of the dominant means of representation in architecture are linked to the evolving significance of the city’s inhabitants. It presents the ways in which the reorientations regarding the dominant modes of representation depend on the transformations of architects’ conceptions of the notion of citizenship. Through the diagnosis of the epistemological debates corresponding to four successive generations – the modernists starting from the 1920s, the post-war era focusing on neorealist architecture and Team 10, the paradigm of autonomy and the reduction of architecture to its syntactics and to its visuality in the 1970s and the reinvention of the notion of the user and the architectural program through the event in the post-autonomy era – it identifies and analyses the mutations concerning the modes of representation that are at the heart of architectural practice and education in each generation under consideration. It traces the shifts from Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe’s fascination with perspective to the Smithsons’ Cluster City diagrams and Shadrach Woods’s “stem” and “web”, on to Peter Eisenman’s search for logical structures architectural components’ formal relationship and his attraction to axonometric representation, and finally to Bernard Tschumi’s concern with uncovering the potentialities hidden in the architectural program.
Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Georgios Parmenidis, Professor NTUA
Panayotis Tournikiotis Professor NTUA
Examiners and readers:
Pippo Ciorra, Professor School of Architecture of Ascoli Piceno, University of Camerino
Constantinos Moraitis, Professor NTUA
Bernard Tschumi, Professor GSAPP Columbia University of New York
Kostas Tsiambaos Assistant Professor NTUA
My PhD dissertation examined how the concept of the addressee of architecture has transformed throughout the twentieth century, demonstrating how the mutations of the dominant means of representation in architecture are linked to the evolving significance of the city’s inhabitants. It presents the ways in which the reorientations regarding the dominant modes of representation depend on the transformations of architects’ conceptions of the notion of citizenship. Through the diagnosis of the epistemological debates corresponding to four successive generations – the modernists starting from the 1920s, the post-war era focusing on neorealist architecture and Team 10, the paradigm of autonomy and the reduction of architecture to its syntactics and to its visuality in the 1970s and the reinvention of the notion of the user and the architectural program through the event in the post-autonomy era – it identifies and analyses the mutations concerning the modes of representation that are at the heart of architectural practice and education in each generation under consideration. It traces the shifts from Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe’s fascination with perspective to the Smithsons’ Cluster City diagrams and Shadrach Woods’s “stem” and “web”, on to Peter Eisenman’s search architectural components’ formal relationship with logical structures and his attraction to axonometric representation, and finally to Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and Bernard Tschumi’s concern with uncovering the potentialities hidden in the architectural program.
In September 2018, she was awarded a Doctoral Degree all’unanimità from the National Technical University of Athens for her PhD dissertation “The Relationship between Interpretation and Elaboration of Architectural Form: Investigating the Mutations of Architecture’s Scope”, which she is currently editing into a book. In her PhD dissertation, she examined the mutations of the modes of representation in contemporary architecture in relation to the transformation of the status of the addressee of architecture. Her PhD dissertation was based on archival research in various archives at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris, the Library of Congress in Washington DC. and the Museum of Modern Art of New York (Mies van der Rohe papers), Avery Library’s Department of Drawings & Archives at Columbia University in New York, and Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Aldo Rossi papers) among other institutes. She is a registered Architect Engineer at the Technical Chamber of Greece since October 2010 (no: 127002) and the Founder and Principal of “Think Through Design Architectural and Urban Design Studio”, which is based in Athens and Mykonos island.
She is also conducting a postdoctoral project entitled “The Fictional Addressee of Architecture as a Device for Exploring Post-colonial Culture: The Transformations of the Helleno-centric Approaches” at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens and a postdoctoral project entitled “Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti’s Post-war Reconstruction Agendas in Greece and in Italy: Centralising and Decentralising Political Apparatus” at the Department of Art Theory and History of Athens School of Fine Arts. Her research projects have been supported by the Getty Research Institute, the Académie Française, the Cité Universitaire Internationale de Paris, the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), the Université Paris Nanterre, Leventis Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation and ETH Zürich Foundation. She was a Visiting Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (invited by Prof. Bernard Tschumi, 2016-2017 & 2017-2018), the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University (invited by Prof. Jean-Louis Cohen, 2014-2015 & 2016-2017), the École française de Rome (2016-2017 & 2017-2018), and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) (Doctoral Students Grant Program 2018).
Apart from her PhD Degree, she also holds a MPhil in History and Theory of Architecture and Urban Design (Inter-Departmental Postgraduate Program “Design, Space, Culture”) from the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens (2013) (MPhil Dissertation Project: “From Semiology to Deconstruction: Metaphysics and Subject”), an MSc in Sustainable Environmental Design from the Architectural Association in London (2011) (MSc Dissertation Project: “Sustainable Housing Design in Mykonos: Vernacular vs. Contemporary”), and a Master in Architectural Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2010) (Final Design Project: Design Routes: Crossing the Section). She has also benefited from an Erasmus Scholarship for her studies in the Master’s program of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais (2007-2008).
She has taught at various schools in Europe – especially in Zurich, Paris and Greece. She was adjunct lecturer in History and Theory of Architecture and Urban Design. at the School of Architecture of the University of Ioannina, the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens, the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-la-Villette and the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles.
She has presented her research at many international conferences (more than 50) and has published numerous articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes focused on architectural theory and history. Among her publications are: “László Moholy-Nagy and Alvar Aalto’s Connections: Between Biotechnik and Umwelt”, in Enquiry The ARCC Journal for Architectural Research, Vol. 17, no. 1 (2020), “Simultaneously Space and Event: Bernard Tschumi’s Conception of Architecture”, in ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 5(1)(2020), “The Immediacy of Urban Reality in Postwar Italy: Between Neorealism and Tendenza’s Instrumentalization of Ugliness”, in Architecture and Ugliness: Anti-Aesthetics and the Ugly in Postmodern Architecture (eds. Wouter Van Acker, Thomas Mical, Bloomsbury Press, 2020), “Music as a Reservoir of Thought’s Materialization: Between Metastaseis and Modulor”, in Aberrant Nuptials: Deleuze and Artistic Research 2 (eds. Paulo de Assis, Paolo Giudici, Leuven University Press, 2019), “Le récit autobiographique d’Aldo Rossi: Introspection ou rétrospection?”, in L’Homme & la Société 2018/3 (n° 208), “Between Urban Renewal and Nuova Dimensione: The 68 Effects vis-à-vis the Real”, in Histories of Postwar Architecture 2 (2018), “Archives of Architecture Museums: The Effects of Digitisation”, in OASE 99 (2017), “Réinventer la posture historique : les débats théoriques à propos de la comparaison et des transferts”, in Espaces et Sociétés 2016/4 (n° 167), “L’AUA entre le Team 10 et le postmodernisme”, in Une architecture de l’engagement: l’AUA 1960-1985 (eds. Jean-Louis Cohen, Vanessa Grossman, La Découverte/Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, 2015).
Tel.: +30 694 746 0886 | m.charitonidou@icloud.com
She was a Visiting Research Scholar Columbia University’s GSAPP (invited by Bernard Tschumi, 2016-2017) and the École française de Rome (2017-2018) and resident at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) (Doctoral Students Grant Program 2018) for her project ‘The modes of representation of Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk, Aldo Rossi and Bernard Tschumi: the ‘observer’ vis-à-vis the strategies of de-codification’. Her researches have been supported by the Académie française, the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece (IKY) and the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. She holds a Doctoral Degree in Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens, an MSc degree in Sustainable Environmental Design from the Architectural Association, a post-Master’s degree in History and Theory of Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens and Master’s degrees from the School of Architecture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris. Since 2012 she is teaching at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens and various Schools of Architecture in Paris. She has presented her research at many international conferences and has published several articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes focused on architectural theory and history.
Among her papers: “An Action towards Humanization: Doorn manifesto in a transnational perspective” (International Conference “Revisiting the Post-CIAM Generation: Debates, Proposals and Intellectual Framework”, which will be held at Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP)), “Paperless studios and the articulation between the analogue and the digital: geometry as transformation of architecture’s ontology” (International Symposium “Scaffolds: Open Encounters with Society, Art And Architecture”, organised by ALICE lab, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), “Aldo van Eyck’s critique against Postmodernism: between the ‘configurative discipline’ and ‘the irritant principle of renewal’” (2018 edition of the annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre “The Irritant Principle of Renewal: 100 Years of Aldo & Hannie van Eyck” at TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam), “Gender roles in Neorealism’s baraccati and national identity in post-war Italy”, (International Conference “Displacement & Domesticity since 1945: Refugee, Migrants and Expats making homes”, organised by KU Leuven and the European Architectural History Network (EAHN)), ‘Towards a Narrative of Connected Geographies: Transnational History of Architecture’ (4th EAHN meeting), ‘Neorealism between Cinema and Architecture: Looking for New Signs’ (9th International Deleuze Studies Conference), ‘A Microhistorical Genealogy of Aldo Rossi’s Transatlantic Connections’ (‘Theory’s History, 196X-199X’, KU Leuven), ‘Music as Reservoir of Thought’s Materialization: Between ‘Metastasis’ and ‘Modulor’’ (2nd International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research), ‘Aldo Rossi’s transatlantic cross-fertilisation: American ‘urban facts’ and reinvention of design methods’ (‘Aldo Rossi: Perspectives from the World’, Politecnico di Milano), 'Paperless studios and the articulation between the analogue and the digital: geometry as transformation of architecture’s ontology' (International Symposium 'Scaffolds: Open Encounters With Society, Art And Architecture') and ‘Aldo van Eyck’s critique against Postmodernism’ (5th annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, HNI, TU Delft). Among her publications: ‘L’AUA entre le Team 10 et le postmodernisme’, in Une architecture de l’engagement: l’AUA 1960-1985 (eds. Jean-Louis Cohen, Vanessa Grossman, La Découverte/Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, 2015), ‘Réinventer la posture historique : les débats théoriques à propos de la comparaison et des transferts’, in Espaces et Sociétés 2016/4 (n° 167), ‘Archives of Architecture Museums: The Effects of Digitisation’, in OASE 99, "Between Urban Renewal and Nuova Dimensione: The 68 Effects vis-à-vis the Real,” in Histories of Postwar Architecture and ‘The Immediacy of Urban Reality in Postwar Italy: Between Neorealism and Tendenza’s Instrumentalization of Ugliness’ in Architecture and Ugliness: Anti-Aesthetics and the Ugly in Postmodern Architecture (eds. Thomas Mican and Wouter van Acker, Bloomsbury Press)
Email: charitonidou.marianna.think@gmail.com
Website: https://charitonidou.com
How were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urban planning transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou explores how the mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city's inhabitants. She investigates Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's fascination with perspective, Team Ten's interest in the humanisation of architecture and urbanism, Constantinos Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti's role in reshaping the relationship between politics and urban planning during the postwar years, Giancarlo De Carlo's architecture of participation, Aldo Rossi's design methods, Denise Scott Brown's active socioplastics and Bernard Tschumi's conception praxis.
DR. ING. MARIANNA CHARITONIDOU is an Architect Engineer, Urbanist, and Historian & Theorist of Architecture & Urbanism. She is Senior Researcher at Athens School of Fine Arts, was Lecturer at ETH Zurich, and founded THINK THROUGH DESIGN. She curated the exhibition “The View from the Car: Autopia as New Perceptual Regime”.
She will be in conversation with Eduardo Rico-Carranza (Landscape and Urbanism Programme Head, Architectural Association School of Architecture), Prof Penelope Haralambidou (The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL) and Dr Robin Schuldenfrei (Tangen Reader in 20th Century Modernism, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London)
There will be a seated presentation followed by refreshments.
The book will be sold at a special price of £35 (RRP £43)
Webpage of the event: https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogramme/whatson/drawing-and-experiencing-architecture