Reinventing Modern Architecture in Greece: From Sentimental Topography to Ekistics
About this ebook
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. This 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.
About the author
Marianna Charitonidou is senior lecturer and senior researcher at Athens School of Fine Arts, where she leads the project Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti’s Post-war Reconstruction Agendas in Greece and Italy. She is the founder and principal of Marianna Charitonidou Think Through Design Studio (https://charitonidou.com). She is a licensed architect engineer, urban planner and historian/theorist of architecture and urban studies. She holds a PhD Degree and an MPhil Degree from the National Technical University of Athens, an MSc Degree from the Architectural Association and a Master’s Degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is the author of many books, among which are Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices: Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century (Routledge, 2023) and Drawing and Experiencing Architecture: The Evolving Significance of City's Inhabitants in the 20th Century (2022). She has been teaching at the university level since 2012. She has been lecturer and researcher at ETH Zurich, Princeton University, Columbia University, Getty Research Institute, École française de Rome and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. She has received many awards for her research, teaching, conferences and writings on architecture and urban studies. She curated the exhibition The View from the Car at ETH Zurich.
