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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.
Marianna Charitonidou's scholarly work, based on extensive archival research, delves into the modernist reinterpretation of the myth of Greece, especially within the urban crisis context since the Marshall Plan. She explores dialogues between influential European architects and Greece, with a focus on Constantinos A. Doxiadis's theory of ekistics—an interdisciplinary and ecological framework for human settlements that transcends the technocratic approaches of postwar planners and architects. By linking ekistics with contemporary theories of ""critical regionalism,"" Charitonidou offers a sophisticated critique of today’s digitally influenced techno-aesthetic ecological approaches, revealing significant connections between historical modernist regional perspectives and Helleno-centric ideas.” Gevork Hartoonian, Emeritus Professor of the history of architecture, University of Canberra, Australia, recently the author of Mies Contra Le Corbusier: The Frame Inevitable (Routledge 2024), and the editor of Valances of Historiography: Essays on Architectural History (Routledge, December 30, 2024). Marianna Charitonidou's book presents a vital theoretical contribution to architectural and urban history and theory, making it essential for architects and cultural and political theorists alike. It emphasises the interconnectedness of architectural processes with broader cultural, scientific, ethical, and political systems. This significant epistemological hypothesis serves as the foundation of the text. The book is well-structured and contributes meaningfully to architectural and urban history and theory and the humanities. It highlights Constantinos A. Doxiadis’s and Adriano Olivetti’s visions for post-war reconstruction, linking them to innovative approaches in sciences and socio-political theory. Additionally, it examines the impact of the Marshall Plan on urban planning in Greece and Italy and the cultural journey of architects and intellectuals following WWII amid Greece's deterioration. Constantinos Moraitis, Emeritus Professor of architecture and landscape, School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and recently the author of Aktaionos Weddings: Texts on the Landscape, its Cultural Approach and Design (Tziola, 2024). The book is a most laudable effort to discuss modern Greek architecture within an international cultural framework. Alexander Tzonis, Emeritus Professor of architectural theory, history and design cognition, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands, co-author with Liane Lefaivre of Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization: Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2020).
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