Reinventing Modern Architecture in Greece

From Sentimental Topography to Ekistics
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-79849-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Architecture

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. It also explores the architects of the Mataroa mission, who played a vital role in the cross-fertilisation between France and Greece, and the role of travel to Greece for architects during the nineteenth century.

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Charitonidou, Marianna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.