Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices

Dr. Ing. Marianna Charitonidou is Principal Investigator and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Art Theory and History of Athens School of Fine Arts, where she is leading the project Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti’s Post-war Reconstruction Agendas in Greece and in Italy: Centralising and Decentralising Political Apparatus, and Founder & Principal of Think Through Design Architectural, Urban and Landscape Design Studio. She is architect engineer and urbanist, historian and theorist of architecture and urbanism, expert in sustainable environmental design and curator. Apart from her PhD thesis The Relationship between Interpretation and Elaboration of Architectural Form: Investigating the Mutations of Architecture’s Scope (National Technical University of Athens, 2018), she completed the following two postdoctoral projects: The Travelling Architect’s Eye: Photography and the Automobile Vision at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich, where she was Lecturer (2019-2021), and 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 (ETH Zurich, 2021).

Acknowledgments. Foreword by Gevork Hartoonian. Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2. Different ways of relating fiction to reality and architectural drawings: Object-oriented and subject-oriented modes of representation. Chapter 3. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier vis-à-vis the modernist ethos: Around the spirit of truth and clarity. Chapter 4. Individual-community assemblages in post-war era architecture: The dissolution of universality. Chapter 5. Decodification of design process as syntactic analogy: The primacy of the observer in the 1970s & 1980s. Chapter 6. Identification of the architect with the architectural artefact: Autobiography vis-à-vis the design process. Chapter 7. Bernard Tschumi and the intensification of urban conditions: Uncovering the potentialities hidden in the program. Chapter 8. Bernard Tschumi’s architecture as the discourse of events: Disjunction and a new definition of metropolis. Chapter 9. Rem Koolhaas and the congestion of metropolis: How the artificial would replace the reality? Chapter 10. Conversing with Bernard Tschumi on his conception of architecture’s modes of representation: Instead of epilogue. Index.