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Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and urbanism are conceived.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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).
Summary
Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and urbanism are conceived.
