Marianna Charitonidou Knihy

Focusing on the evolution of architectural representation, this book examines how shifts in drawing techniques influence the perception and understanding of architecture and urbanism. It delves into the relationship between these evolving modes and the changing identities of those who engage with architectural spaces, highlighting the dynamic interplay between representation and audience conception.

How were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urbanism transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou shows how mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city's inhabitants. She investigates Le Corbusier's and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's fascination with perspective, Team Ten's humanisation of architecture and urbanism, Constantinos Doxiadis' and Adriano Olivetti's role in reshaping the relationship between politics and urban planning, Giancarlo De Carlo's architecture of participation, Aldo Rossi's design methods, Denise Scott Brown's active socioplactics and Bernard Tschumi's spatial praxis.