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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.
List of contents
List of FiguresList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsChapter 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
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.
