Marianna Charitonidou

Reinventing Modern Architecture in Greece

From Sentimental Topography to Ekistics

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Produktbeschreibung

The book examines the connection between the politics of the Marshall Plan and urban planning and identifies the key players, such as the Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis and the Italian industrialist Adriano Olivetti.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032798493
• ISBN-10: 1032798491
• Artikelnr.: 72212216

Autorenporträt

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 licenced architect engineer, urbanist, and historian/theorist of architecture and urbanism. 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 (Transcript Publishing, 2022). She has been Lecturer and Researcher at ETH Zurich, Princeton University, Columbia University, 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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction: Palpating the Paths of Sentimental Topography and
Ekistics
Chapter 2. The Greek Travels of the Villa Medici Pensionnaires in the 19th
Century: Perceiving Ancient Monuments between Architecture and Archaeology
Chapter 3. Dimitris Pikionis, Aris Konstantinidis, and Albert Camus:
Greece's Entry into Modernity and Mediterranean Humanism
Chapter 4. The Architects of Mataroa, and Cornelius Castoriadis and Henri
Lefebvre's Autogestion: Reinventing Polis as Project
Chapter 5. Takis Zenetos's Electronic Urbanism: Social Structures and
Reconstruction of Mass Society
Chapter 6. Iannis Xenakis's Formalised Music: Connecting Space, Music, and
Mathematics
Chapter 7. Alison and Peter Smithson's Understanding of the Notion of Space
in Greek Architecture: The 'As Found' as Topographical Sensitivity
Chapter 8. Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti's Role in
Politics: Marshall Plan and Urbanism and Housing in Postwar Era
Chapter 9. From the Ministry of Reconstruction to the Dissemination of
Ideas through Networks: Urban Networks, Human Settlements and Ekistics
Chapter 10. Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Adriano Olivetti, and the Settlements
of Utopia: Industry and Optimism
Chapter 11. Urban Analytics and Technophile Culture in Constantinos
Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti's Practices: Towards a Computerised Vision
Chapter 12. Post-script or Towards an Ekistics of Tomorrow: What is the
future?
Index