Marianna Charitonidou
former postdoc

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ORCID # 0000-0003-1083-486

Representative publications

Marianna Charitonidou, “Frank Gehry's non-trivial drawings as gestures: drawdlings and a kinaesthetic approach to architecture”, Journal of Visual Art Practice (2022): 1-28, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2021.2022292

Marianna Charitonidou, “Interactive art as reflective experience: Imagineers and ultra-technologies as interaction designers”, Visual Resources (2022), doi:
https://doi.org/10.1080/01973762.2022.2041218

Marianna Charitonidou,”Italian Neorealist and New Migrant films as dispositifs of alterity: How borgatari and popolane challenge the stereotypes of nationhood and womanhood?”, Studies in European Cinema, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2021.1968165

Marianna Charitonidou, “Urban scale digital twins in data-driven society: Challenging digital universalism in urban planning decision-making”, International Journal of Architectural Computing (2022), https://doi.org/10.1177/14780771211070005

Marianna Charitonidou, “The 1968 effects and civic responsibility in architecture and urban planning in the USA and Italy: Challenging ‘nuova dimensione’ and ‘urban renewal’”, Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 9(1) (2021): 549-578. https://doi.org/10.1080/21650020.2021.2001365

Marianna Charitonidou, “Bauhäusler in America: László Moholy-Nagy and Anni and Josef Albers and the ‘Re-invention’ of Teaching Models”, in Andreas Giacumacatos, Sokratis Georgiadis, eds., Bauhaus and Greece: The New Idea of Synthesis in Art and Architecture (Athens: Kapon Editions, 2021), 42-49.

Marianna Charitonidou, “The Travelling Architect's Eye: Photography and Automobile Vision”, in La città globale. La condizione urbana come fenomeno pervasivo/The Global City. The urban condition as a pervasive phenomenon, edited by Marco Pretelli, Ines Tolic, Rosa Tamborrino (Turin: AISU, 2020), 684-694.

Marianna Charitonidou, “Automotive Imaginaries and the E-Road Network: Constructing the Europe-Wide City”, Strelka Mag, 22 September 2021.

Marianna Charitonidou, "Mies van der Rohe’s Zeitwille: Baukunst between Universality and Individuality", Architecture and Culture (2021): 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2021.1945371

Marianna Charitonidou, "E-Road Network and Urbanization: A Reinterpretation of the Trans-European Petroleumscape", Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 9(1) (2021): 408-425. https://doi.org/10.1080/21650020.2021.1950045

Marianna Charitonidou, "Autopia as new perceptual regime: mobilized gaze and architectural design", City, Territory and Architecture, 8(5) (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40410-021-00134-1

Marianna Charitonidou, « Vers une écosophie des pratiques architecturales et urbaines », Ligeia, 2 (2021): 5-14.

Marianna Charitonidou, "The View from the Car and the Architects’ Mobilized Gaze: Reinventing Perception and Representation", Archithese, 14 September 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, “Mobility and Migration as Constituting Elements of Urban Society: Migration as a Gendered Process and How to Challenge Digital Universalism”, Proceedings of the 2021 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference: Curriculum for Climate Agency: Design (in)Action.

Marianna Charitonidou, “Guar­da­re l'ar­chi­tet­tu­ra dal­l'au­to­mo­bi­le”, Espazium, 22 July 2021.

Marianna Charitonidou. “Urban Commons as a Bridge between the Spatial and the Social: Pro-poor Housing Programmes in Addis Ababa and Commoning Practices.” In Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand: 37, What If? What Next? Speculations on History’s Futures, edited by Kate Hislop and Hannah Lewi, 662-671. Perth: SAHANZ, 2021.

Marianna Charitonidou. “Autopia as a New Episteme and New Theoretical Frameworks: The Car-oriented Perception of the City.” In Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand: 37, What If? What Next? Speculations on History’s Futures, edited by Kate Hislop and Hannah Lewi, 162-173. Perth: SAHANZ, 2021.

Marianna Charitonidou, "Revisiting Giancarlo De Carlo’s Participatory Design Approach: From the Representation of Designers to the Representation of Users", Heritage, 4(2) (2021): 985-1004.

Marianna Charitonidou, “Housing Programs for the Poor in Addis Ababa: Urban Commons as a Bridge between Spatial and Social”, Journal of Urban History (February 2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144221989975

Marianna Charitonidou, “Le voyage en Grèce des pensionnaires de la Villa Médicis au xixe siècle : la perception des monuments antiques entre architecture et archéologie”, Anabases, 34 (2021)

Marianna Charitonidou, “La vision de l’automobiliste et le regard mobilisé des architectes: Réinventer la perception et la représentation”, Revue Tracés, 3508 (2021)

Marianna Charitonidou, « Fantaisies architecturales chez Iakov Tchernikhov : Surpasser la “mimesis” à travers la “phantasia” comme agent du progrès », Nouvelle revue d’esthétique, 27 (2021): 131-143.

Marianna Charitonidou, “Gender and Migrant Roles in Italian Neorealist and New Migrant Films: Cinema as an Apparatus of Reconfiguration of National Identity and ‘Otherness’”, Humanities, 10(2) (2021)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/h10020071

Marianna Charitonidou, "Frank Gehry’s Self-Twisting Uninterrupted Line: Gesture-Drawings as Indexes", Arts, 10(1) (2021) https://doi.org/10.3390/arts10010016

Marianna Charitonidou, "Takis Zenetos’s Electronic Urbanism and Tele-Activities: Minimizing Transportation as Social Aspiration", Urban Science, 5(1) (2021). https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci5010031

Marianna Charitonidou, "Exhibitions in France as Symbolic Domination: Images of Postmodernism and Cultural Field in the 1980s", Arts, 10(1) (2021). https://doi.org/10.3390/arts10010014

Marianna Charitonidou, “Bauhäusler in Chicago: László Moholy-Nagy, Mies van der Rohe and the ‘Re-invention’ of Teaching Models”, in Initiations: Practices of Teaching 1st Year Design in Architecture, eds. Christakis Chatzichristou, Popi Iacovou, Leonidas Koutsoumpos (Cyprus: University of Cyprus, 2021), 310 – 322.

Marianna Charitonidou, "Takis Zenetos’s Conception of Remoteness: Tele-Operations as Socio-Technological Transformations", Img Journal, 2(3) (2020): 148-171.

Marianna Charitonidou, “Città e casa del futuro di Takis Zenetos. Risincronizzare la vita quotidiana”, FAM Magazine del Festival dell’Architettura, 52-53 (2020): 63-68.

Marianna Charitonidou, “Takis Zenetos’s City and House of the Future.
Resynchronising Quotidian Life”, FAM Magazine del Festival dell’Architettura, 52-53 (2020): 63-68.


Marianna Charitonidou, “László Moholy-Nagy and Alvar Aalto’s Biocentric Vision of Design and their Admiration for Invisible Structures: ‘Elastic, Standardization as Biosemiotics”, CARTHA, 11 (2020).

Marianna Charitonidou, “László Moholy-Nagy and Alvar Aalto’s Connections: Between Biotechnik and Umwelt”, Enquiry The ARCC Journal for Architectural Research, 17(1) (2020): 28-46. doi:10.17831/enq:arcc.v17i1.1080

Marianna Charitonidou, "Simultaneously Space and Event: Bernard Tschumi’s Conception of Architecture", ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 5(1)(2020) DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ajar.250

Tom Avermaete, Marianna Charitonidou, Hans Teerds, "Street Corners. A Zurich Lexicon”, in idem., Street Corners. A Zurich Lexicon (Zurich: Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design/Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (GTA), 2020).

Marianna Charitonidou, "The immediacy of urban reality in post-war Italy: Between neorealism’s and Tendenza’s instrumentalization of ugliness", in Thomas Mical, Wouter Van Acker, eds. Architecture and Ugliness. Anti-Aesthetics in Postmodern Architecture (London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), 223-244. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350068261.ch-013

Marianna Charitonidou, “Gottfried Semper face au Crystal Palace Le Stoffwechsel ou l’osmose entre arts décoratifs et architecture/Gottfried Semper’s Perplexity Before the Crystal Palace: Stoffwechsel as Osmosis between Decorative Objects and Architecture”, Faces, 77 (2020): 16-21; 63-65.

Marianna Charitonidou, “Alison and Peter Smithson and their Travels to Greece: The Search for an Open-ended Morphology”, in Stamatina Kousidi, ed., Viaggi e Viste. Mediterraneo e modernità (Firenze: Altralinea edizioni/Momenti di architettura moderna, 2020), 113-128

Marianna Charitonidou, “From the Athens Charter to the “Human Association”: Challenging the Assumptions of the Charter of Habitat”, in Katarina Mohar, Barbara Vodopivec, eds., Proceedings of the international conference of the project Mapping the Urban Spaces of Slovenian Cities from the Historical Perspective (Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2020), 28-43.

Marianna Charitonidou, “Architecture’s Addressees: Drawing as Investigating Device”, villardjournal, 2 (2020): 91-111. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv160btcm.10

Marianna Charitonidou, “Aldo Rossi’s Transatlantic Cross-fertilization: American ‘Urban Facts’ and Reinvention of Design Methods”, in Marco Bovati et al, eds., Aldo Rossi, Perspectives from the World. Theory, Teaching, Design & Legacy (Padova: Il Poligrafo, Biblioteca di Architettura series, 2020), 166-173.

Μαριάννα Χαριτωνίδου, “Προκλήσεις αναδιάρθρωσης της διδασκαλίας της ιστορίας και της θεωρίας της αρχιτεκτονικής”, Archetype magazine 3 (2020). Online access: https://www.archetype.gr/blog/arthro/proklisis-anadiarthrosis-tis-didaskalias-tis-istorias-kai-tis-theorias-tis-architektonikis

Marianna Charitonidou, "Music as a Reservoir of Thought’s Materialisation Between Metastaseis and Modulor", in Paulo de Assis, Paolo Giudici, eds., Aberrant Nuptials: Deleuze and Artistic Research 2 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019), 101-119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvmd83nt.10

Marianna Charitonidou, “From Harlem to New Haven: The Emergence of the Advocacy Planning Movement in the late 1960s” in the proceedings of the international conference of the Jaap Bakema centre “Architecture and Democracy 1965-1989: Urban Renewal, Populism and the Welfare State” (Convener: Dirk van den Heuvel (Jaap Bakema Study Centre). Advisory Board: Tom Avermaete (ETH Zü-rich), Hetty Berens (HNI), Guus Beumer (HNI), Maristella Casciato (Getty Research Institute), Dick van Gameren (TU Delft), Carola Hein (TU Delft), Laurent Stalder (ETH Zürich)
https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000402979
Conference website

Marianna Charitonidou, “Bauhäusler in Chicago: László Moholy-Nagy, Mies van der Rohe and the ‘Re-invention’ of Teaching Models,” in the proceedings of the International Conference “Initiations – Practices of Teaching 1st Year Design in Architecture”, University of Cyprus Nicosia, 23-25 October 2019.
Conference website

Marianna Charitonidou, "Mies’s Representations as Zeitwille: Großstadt between Impersonality and Autonomous Individual," in the proceedings of the International Conference "Mies van Der Rohe. The architecture of the city", Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, 18-19 October 2019.
Conference website

Marianna Charitonidou, "Gender Roles in Neorealism’s Baraccati and National Identity in Post-war Italy”, in Alessandra Gola, Ashika Singh and Anamica Singh, eds. Displacement and Domesticity since 1945. Refugees, Migrants and Expats Making Homes (Leuven: KU Leuven Department of Architecture, 2019), 371-383.

Marianna Charitonidou, "An Action towards Humanization: Doorn Manifesto in a Transnational Perspective," in Nuno Correia, Maria Helena Maia, Rute Figueiredo, eds., Revisiting the Post-CIAM Generation: Debates, Proposals and Intellectual Framework (Porto: IHA/FCSH-UNL, CEAA/ESAP-CESAP, 2019), 68-86.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/28351
ISBN: 978-972-8784-85-0


Marianna Charitonidou, “Le récit autobiographique d’Aldo Rossi: introspection ou rétrospection?”, L'Homme & la société 208 (2018): 295-318.
https://doi.org/10.3917/lhs.208.0295

Marianna Charitonidou, “Between Urban Renewal and Nuova Dimensione: The 68 Effects vis-à-vis the Real", Histories of Postwar Architecture 2 (2018): 1- 26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-0075/7734

Marianna Charitonidou, "Archives of Architecture Museums: The Effects of Digitisation", OASE 99 (2017): 77-81.
ISBN978-94-6208-373-8 © NAi Publishers, 2017

Marianna Charitonidou, “Réinventer la posture historique: les débats théoriques à propos de la comparaison et des transferts”, Espaces et Sociétés, 167 (2016): 137-152.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3917/esp.167.0137

Marianna Charitonidou, “From Semiology to Deconstruction: Metaphysics and Subject”, in Giorgos Parmenidis, ed., Research in Architecture (Athens: National Technical University of Athens, 2016), 374-399. In Greek.

Marianna Charitonidou, “From the Research of a Modernity that Could be Greek to a Multiplicity of the Present: ‘Greek-ness’ in Architecture or Architecture in Greece?,” in Andreas Giacoumacatos, ed., Greek architecture in the 20th and 21st century (Athens: Gutenberg, 2016), 166-176. In Greek

Marianna Charitonidou, “L’AUA entre le Team 10 et le postmodernisme,” in Jean-Louis Cohen and Vanessa Grossman, eds., AUA : Une architecture de l'engagement, 1960-1985 (Paris: Editions La Découverte/Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine, 2015), 90-97.

Marianna Charitonidou, “Revisiting the encounters of the social concern with the utopian aspirations: is pragmatist imagination or utopian realism the way to follow?”, I International Conference on Architectural Design and Criticism critic/all, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, 12- 14 June 2014

Marianna Charitonidou, “The Debate between Contextualism and Autonomy in Architecture: A Genealogy”, in Federico Soriano, ed., Critic|all II International Conference on Architectural Design & Criticism (Madrid: critic|all PRESS, 2016), 99-127. ISBN: 978-84-608-9062-1


Representative papers presented at international scientific conferences

Marianna Charitonidou, “The Advocacy Planning and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States: The Architects’ Renewal Committee and the Democratization of Urban Planning”, 15th International Conference on Urban History, Antwerp, 31 August - 3 September 2022

Marianna Charitonidou, “Urban scale digital twins and urban planning decision-making: Big data and network society”,International Conference of the 100th anniversary of the Geographic Union, Paris,
18-22 July 2022


Marianna Charitonidou, ”Towards Non-Eurocentric Historiographies: Challenging Europe’s Position in the Formation of Architectural Histories”, 7th International Conference of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN), 15-19 June 2022

Marianna Charitonidou, “Rethinking Europe’s Position in the Formation of Architectural Histories: Is a Non-Eurocentric Narrative Possible?”, III Congreso Internacional AhAU “Built and Thought: European and Transatlantic Correspondence in the Historiography of Architecture”, 1–3 June 2022

Marianna Charitonidou, "Revisiting Civic Architecture and Advocacy Planning in the US & Italy: Urban Planning as Commoning and New Theoretical Frameworks", 110th ACSA Annual Meeting "EMPOWER", Los Angeles, 17-20 May 2022

Marianna Charitonidou, “Comparing Cornelius Castoriadis’s Conception of Autonomy with Henri Lefebvre’s Conception of Autogestion: Urban Politics between State and Human Reason”, international conference “Cornelius Castoriadis: 1922-2022. One hundred years since the birth of the philosopher of autonomy”, School of Political Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 11-13 March 2022

Marianna Charitonidou, “The images of postmodernism as symbolic capital: Modernity as 'l’esprit du temps' or as 'un projet inachevé’?”, Denkmal Postmoderne. Erhaltung einer »nicht-abzuschließenden« Epoche, Weimar, Germany, 3-5 March, 2022

Marianna Charitonidou, “Rethinking Europe’s Position in the Formation of Architectural Histories: Is a Non-Eurocentric Narrative Possible?”, III Congreso Internacional AhAU “Built and Thought: European and Transatlantic Correspondence in the Historiography of Architecture”, 18-19 November 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, “The Reconceptualization of the City’s Ugliness between the 1950s and 1970s: The Exchanges between the British, Italian, Australian and American Milieus”, 38th Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) 2021 conference ‘Ultra: Positions and Polarities Beyond Crisis, 10-13 November 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, "Architecture and Urban Planning vis-à-vis Infrastructural Europeanism: The E-Road Network and the Trans-European Petroleumscape”, 18th Annual International Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) Conference, 11 - 13 November 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, "Constantinos A. Doxiadis’ Concept of ‘Ecumenopolis’ vis-à-vis Eurafrica: Revisiting the Masterplan for Festac Town and the Role of Transport Infrastructure”, 18th Annual International Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) Conference, 11 - 13 November 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, “The Aesthetics of Travel in the Thought of Architects: Urban Space in Movement as a New Perceptual Regime and the Dynamics of Landscape”, 8th Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics, Interim Conference of the Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics, Delphi, Greece, 9-11 September 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, “Intersectionality and Digital Humanities in the Teaching of Architectural History: Diversity in the Dissemination of Knowledge”, 11th Conference of Japanese Association for Digital Humanities "Digital Humanities and COVID-19" (JADH 2021), Tokyo, Japan, 6-8 September 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, “Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de La Villette as Reinvention of the Concept of Territory: ‘Follies’ as a Dispersed and Differentiated Reality”, 13th Deleuze & Guattari Studies International Conference “Territorialities, Exterritorialities, Non-Territorialities”, Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, 5-7 July 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, “Urban Politics at the Crossroads of the State Reason and Human Reason: Juxtaposing Autogestion and Autonomy”, 5th International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture (ISPA) Conference ‘Public Space: the Real and the Ideal’, 2 – 5 July 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, “Mobility and Migration as Constituting Elements of Urban Society: Migration as a Gendered Process”, 2021 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference: Curriculum for Climate Agency, 24-25 June 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, “Cinema as an Apparatus for Homemaking: Gender Roles from Post-war Neorealism to the Contemporary Italian Scene”, symposium “Dream Play Challenge: The Future of Residential Living”, Women in Architecture Festival, Nordic Embassy in Berlin, 24-25 June 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, “Challenging the Trans-European Petroleumscape: Designing Automobility and the E-road Network”, International conference “Optimistic Suburbia II – Middle-Class large housing complexes” 2021 (virtual), Lisbon, Portugal, 16-19 June 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, “The E-Road Network as Actor of Planetary Urbanization: Reconsidering the Trans-European Petroleumscape”, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) Annual Symposium 2021: ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY + CLIMATE EMERGENCY, 11 June 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, "Automobile infrastructure and the planning of the Great Aarhus Area: ‘boligveje’, ‘stamveje’, ‘fordelingsveje’, ‘primærveje’ and ‘motorveje’ as different models of mobility", International Conference “SPACES OF WELFARE", The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK), Copenhagen, 6-7 May 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, ”Digital technologies and the spatial organisation of exhibitions: How augmented and virtual reality enhance interactive digital interfaces”, International Conference on Art, Museums and Digital Cultures, Institute of Art History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, in cooperation with maat - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, 22-23 April 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, “The Use of Virtual Environments in Architectural Design Studio Teaching: Collaborative Computer-Aided Strategies of Distance Learning”, online conference “Online Education: Teaching in a Time of Change”, 21-23 April 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, "Public Spaces in our Data-driven Society: The Myths of Digital Universalism", Deep City – Climate crisis, democracy and the digital. International Latsis Symposium, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, 24-27 March 2021

Marianna Charitonidou, “New Social Housing Models in Sweden: From Folkhemmet to Automobile Perceptual Regimes”, 17th Annual International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association ‘Housing and the City’, Nottingham University, UK, 19-21 November 2020

Marianna Charitonidou, “The Living Units within the Home-office Conditions: Tele-work, Tele-communication, and Tele-education vis-à-vis the Reinvention of the City and Pandemic Preparedness”, 17th Annual International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association ‘Housing and the City’, Nottingham University, UK, 19-21 November 2020

Marianna Charitonidou, “Autopia as a New Episteme and New Theoretical Frameworks: The Car-oriented Perception of the City within a Transnational Network”, 37th Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) “What If? What Next? Speculations”, 18-25 November 2020

Marianna Charitonidou, “Urban Commons as a Bridge between the Spatial and the Social: Pro-poor Housing Programmes in Addis Ababa and Commoning Practices”, 37th Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) “What If? What Next? Speculations”, 18-25 November 2020

Marianna Charitonidou, "Constantinos Doxiadis’ Concept of ‘Ecumenopolis’ vis-à-vis Eurafrica: Revisiting the Masterplan for Festac Town and the Role of Transport Infrastructure”, International Symposium “coldWARchitectures", University of Stuttgart, 29-30 October 2020

Marianna Charitonidou, "Automobility and Welfare Landscapes: The Car as Presence and Perception" to be presented at the session “Welfare Landscapes: Revisiting the Norms and Forms of a New Urbanity” chaired by Prof. Ellen Braae (University of Copenhagen) and Prof. Tom Avermaete (ETH Zürich) in the framework of the 5th Biennial Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies to be held at the University College London, UK, 26-30 August 2020

Marianna Charitonidou, “From the Athens Charter to the Ηuman Αssociation: Challenging the Assumptions of the Charter of Habitat”, International Conference “Mapping the Spaces of Modernist Cities within the Context of CIAM’s Athens Charter”, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, August 2020

Marianna Charitonidou, “Bernard Tschumi’s Manhattan Transcripts as an exploration of unlikely confrontations: spatial praxis as a dispositif agencing spaces and events”, International Conference “DARE 2019: Machinic Assemblages of Desire. Third International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research”, Orpheus Institute, Ghent, 9-11 December 2019

Marianna Charitonidou, “Bauhäusler in Chicago: László Moholy-Nagy, Mies van der Rohe and the ‘Re-invention’ of Teaching Models”, paper presented at the International Conference “Initiations – Practices of Teaching 1st Year Design in Architecture”, University of Cyprus Nicosia, 23-25 October 2019.
Conference website

Marianna Charitonidou, "The travelling architect’s eye: photography and automobile vision", presented at the 9th International Conference of the Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana (AISU) “The Global City: The Urban Condition as a Pervasive Phenomenon”, Bologna, Italy, 11-14 September 2019

Marianna Charitonidou, “Adriano Olivetti’s Vision to Merge Design and Economy: Design Consultants vis-à-vis Reproducibility as a ‘Concrete Utopia’”, Design History Society Annual Conference 2019 “The Cost of Design”, Northumbria University at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 5-7 September 2019

Marianna Charitonidou, “OMA’s Parc de La Villette and Perpetual Transcoding: The Diagram as Osmosis between Program and Territory” has been selected to be presented at the 12th Annual Deleuze & Guattari Studies conference “From Sense to Machinic Becoming”, Royal Holloway, University of London, 8-10 July 2019

Marianna Charitonidou, "The Abandonment of ‘Nuova Dimensione’ and ‘Urban Renewal’ in a Transatlantic Perspective: The 1968 Effects on the Perception of Urban Conditions", 4th International Conference on Changing Cities (CCIV): Spatial, Design, Landscape & Socio-economic Dimensions, organized by the Laboratory of Urban Morphology & Design of the Department of Planning and Regional Development of the University of Thessaly in collaboration with the School of Architecture of the Technical University of Crete and Regional Authority of Crete, Cultural Centre of Chania, Crete Island, Greece, 24-29 June 2019

Marianna Charitonidou, “The Fictional Addressee of Architecture as a Device for Exploring Post-colonial Culture: The Transformations of the Helleno-centric Approaches", First International Conference “Ferekidis” "Modern Western Civilisation and its Greek Points of Reference", Syros Institute, 7-9 June 2019

Marianna Charitonidou, “Bauhäusler in America: László Moholy-Nagy and Anni and Josef Albers and the ‘Re-invention’ of Teaching Models”, International conference "Bauhaus and Greece: The Idea of Synthesis is Art and Architecture", organized by the Athens School of Fine Arts and the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Athens School of Fine Arts, Benaki Museum, 30 May - 1 June 2019

Marianna Charitonidou, "Architectural Drawings Exposed: Rise of Artefactual Value vs Archives’ Democracy", International Conference “Rethinking Crisis, Resistance and Strategy: Historical Materialism Athens”, Panteion University, Athens, 2-5 May 2019

Marianna Charitonidou, “Gender Roles in Neorealism’s Baraccati and National Identity in Postwar Italy”, International Conference “Displacement & Domesticity since 1945: Refugee, Migrants and Expats Making homes”, conference organized by KU Leuven and the European Architectural History Network, Palais des Academies in Brussels, Belgium, 28- 29 March 2019

Marianna Charitonidou, “Aldo van Eyck’s Critiques Against Postmodernism as a Humanist Device”, Annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, 28 November 2018

Marianna Charitonidou, “Paperless Studios and the Articulation between the Analogue and the Digital”, International Conference “Scaffolds: Open Encounters with Society, Art and Architecture”, ALICE lab, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 22-23 November 2018

Marianna Charitonidou, “Aldo Rossi’s Transatlantic Cross-fertilization: American ‘Urban Facts’ and Reinvention of Design Methods”, International Conference “Aldo Rossi: Perspectives from the World”, Politecnico di Milano, AUIC School, 13 June 2018

Marianna Charitonidou, “Music as Reservoir of Thought’s Materialization: Between ‘Metastasis’ and ‘Modulor”, 2nd International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research DARE 2017: Aberrant Nuptials, Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium, 21 November 2017

Marianna Charitonidou, "Horizons and Directions Regarding Teaching Architectural History and Theory: Challenges within the International Context", Conference "Architectural education: objects and prospects" organized for the 100th Anniversary of the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens, 5 November 2017

Marianna Charitonidou, "Artefactual Value and Virtual Archives: The Digital Curator vis-à-vis the Plurality of Entry Points”, Université d’été de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky 4 édition, Centre Georges Pompidou, 7 July 2017

Marianna Charitonidou, “Iakov Chernikhov’s Architectural Fantasies: Overcoming of ‘Mimesis’ through ‘Phantasia’ as Forerunner of Progress”, Ecole de printemps 2017 of the International Consortium of Art History, University of Geneva, 11 May 2017

Marianna Charitonidou, “A Microhistorical Genealogy of Aldo Rossi’s Transatlantic Connections: Transplantation and Architectural Pedagogues and Historians”, International conference “Theory's History, 196X-199X: Challenges in the Historiography of Architectural Knowledge”, KU Leuven, Palais des Academies in Brussels, 9 February 2017

Marianna Charitonidou, “Neorealism between Cinema and Architecture: Looking for New Signs”, 9th International Deleuze Studies Conference “Virtuality, Becoming and Life”, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Visual Arts of University of Roma Tre, 11 - 13 July 2016

Marianna Charitonidou, “Revisiting the debate around autonomy in architecture: a genealogy”, II International Conference on Architectural Design and Criticism critic/all, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, 20 - 22 June 2016

Marianna Charitonidou, "Vers une écosophie des pratiques architecturales et urbaines", International Conference « Au tournant de l'expérience : interroger ce qui se construite, partager ce qui nous arrive » (“At the turn of the experience. Questioning what we build, sharing what we face”), Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine de Paris, 11 - 12 March 2016

Marianna Charitonidou, “Towards a Narrative of Connected Geographies: Display of Architecture and Transnational History” at the European Architectural History Network: 4th International Meeting in Dublin, 4 June 2016

Marianna Charitonidou, “Gilles Deleuze and the Nondiscursive Arts: From Symptomatology to the Capture of Forces”, International Conference “Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Refrains of Freedom”, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, 24 - 26 April 2015

Marianna Charitonidou, "How is Deleuze and Guattari’s Model for Subjectivity Critical for Architectural Theory and Practice Today? The Diagrammatic or Abstract Machine in Contemporary Theory of Architecture", 7th International Deleuze Studies Conference “Models, Machines and Memories”, Istanbul Technical University, School of Architecture, 14 - 16 July 2014

Marianna Charitonidou, “Revisiting the encounters of the social concern with the utopian aspirations: is pragmatist imagination or utopian realism the way to follow?”, I International Conference on Architectural Design and Criticism critic/all, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, 12- 14 June 2014

Marianna Charitonidou, “From the Research of a Modernity that Could be Greek to a Multiplicity of the Present: ‘Greekness’ in Architecture or Architecture in Greece?”, 1st Colloquium of History of Architecture in Greece on the historiography of architecture in Greece in the 20th and 21st century art and architecture between local and globalization, Department of Art Theory and History of Athens School of Fine Arts History, 22 - 25 May 2014

Marianna Charitonidou, “Scripting Cultures, Parametric Urbanism and Adaptive Ecologies”, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Intelligent Cities, Intelligent Users hosted by the National Technical University of Athens , 16 - 19 July 2013


Chairing of sessions & roundtables at international conferences

Session entitled “Reconceiving urban planning strategies and cities after the big oil crisis of the 1970s: New challenges and the new mobility and ecology turn” chaired by Dr. Ing. Marianna Charitonidou, Prof. Massimiliano Savorra and Prof. Guido Zucconi, X Congresso ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA DI STORIA URBANA (AISU) in Turin, 6-10 September 2022

Macro-session entitled “Migration as a Gendered Process: Redefining Domesticity and Displacement”, 15th International Conference on Urban History (EAUH 2022), 31 August – 3 September 2022

Roundtable entitled “Revisiting the History of Participation: Urban Design as Commoning and New Theoretical Frameworks”, 37th Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) “What If? What Next? Speculations", 18-25 November 2020


Representative invited lectures

Marianna Charitonidou, “Autopia as New Perceptual Regime: Mobilized Gaze and Architectural Design”, Architecture Foundation ‘100 Day Studio’ initiative, 9 June 2020

Marianna Charitonidou, “The Balcony as An Urban Element: Threshold, Common World and Rythmanalysis”, SToA Stuttgart Talks: Facing Covid-19 – (Politics of) Elements of Architecture (2020), Stuttgart, Germany, May 20, and July 17, 2020

Marianna Charitonidou, “On Visual Evidence: Sketches, Drawings and Photographs as Research Materials”, “THE ARCHITECTURE OF RESEARCH 4 GTA DOCTORAL PROGRAMME WORKSHOP”, 12 May 2020

Marianna Charitonidou, “Between the Modes of Representation and Epistemology of Architecture: A Genealogy of the Mutations of the Relationship Between the Fictive and the Real User”, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais, 17 May 2018

Marianna Charitonidou, “Entre Bernard Tschumi et Frank Gehry: autour de l’approche déconstructiviste en architecture,” Cité Universitaire Internationale de Paris, 3 June 2016

Marianna Charitonidou, “Virtual Images and History of Representation”, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris Malaquais, 7 April 2016

Marianna Charitonidou, “Towards a Cinemat[ograph]ic Conception in Architecture: The Time-image and the Movement-image in the Case of Bernard Tschumi”, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles, 30 March 2016