Autopia as new perceptual regime: mobilized gaze and architectural design
- Marianna Charitonidou
- ArtCity, Territory and Architecture
- 20 May 2021
The automobile has reshaped our conceptions of space and our modes of accessing and penetrating the urban and non-urban territory in multiple ways, revolutionizing how architects perceive the city…
Gender and Migrant Roles in Italian Neorealist and New Migrant Films: Cinema as an Apparatus of Reconfiguration of National Identity and ‘Otherness’
- Marianna Charitonidou
- Sociology, ArtHumanities
- 21 April 2021
The article examines an ensemble of gender and migrant roles in post-war Neorealist and New Migrant Italian films. Its main objective is to analyze gender and placemaking practices in an ensemble of…
Ugliness in architecture in the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus: Subtopia between the 1950s and the 1970s
- Marianna Charitonidou
- HistoryCity, Territory and Architecture
- 16 June 2022
The article examines the reorientations of the appreciation of ugliness within different national contexts in a comparative and relational frame, juxtaposing the Australian, American, British and…
Denise Scott Brown’s active socioplastics and urban sociology: from Learning from West End to Learning from Levittown
- Marianna Charitonidou
- SociologyUrban, Planning and Transport Research
- 19 May 2022
ABSTRACT The article examines the impact of the study for Levittown of urban sociologist Herbert Gans on Denise Scott Brown’s thought. It scrutinizes Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven…
Urban scale digital twins in data-driven society: Challenging digital universalism in urban planning decision-making
- Marianna Charitonidou
- SociologyInternational Journal of Architectural Computing
- 10 January 2022
The article examines the impact of the virtual public sphere on how urban spaces are experienced and conceived in our data-driven society. It places particular emphasis on urban scale digital twins,…
Simultaneously Space and Event: Bernard Tschumi’s Conception of Architecture
- Marianna Charitonidou
- Art
- 9 November 2020
This essay examines the way in which Bernard Tschumi understood and discussed the concept of space during the 1970s, interpreting it in conjunction with his relationship with the so-called ‘London…
Housing Programs for the Poor in Addis Ababa: Urban Commons as a Bridge between Spatial and Social
- Marianna Charitonidou
- HistoryJournal of Urban History
- 9 February 2021
The article presents the reasons for which the issue of providing housing to low-income citizens has been a real challenge in Addis Ababa during the recent years and will continue to be, given that…
Frank Gehry’s Self-Twisting Uninterrupted Line: Gesture-Drawings as Indexes
- Marianna Charitonidou
- ArtArts
- 22 February 2021
The article analyses Frank Gehry’s insistence on the use of self-twisting uninterrupted line in his sketches. Its main objectives are first, to render explicit how this tendency of Gehry is related…
Between Urban Renewal and Nuova Dimensione: The 68 Effects vis-à-vis the Real
- Marianna Charitonidou
- History
- 12 September 2018
This article scrutinizes the effects of 1968 student protests and events on architectural pedagogy and epistemology within the European and American contexts. Through the juxtaposition of the…
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