Postdoctoral researcher
m.charitonidou@icloud.com
Dr. Ing. Marianna Charitonidou is an Architect Engineer & Urban Planner, Historian & Theorist of Architecture, Urbanism & Arts, Industrial Designer, Philosopher, Expert in Sustainable Environmental Design, Curator & Urban Sociologist. She is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Art Theory and History of Athens School of Fine Arts and the Department of Interior Architecture of the University of West Attica. She is a licensed Architect Engineer, registered at the Technical Chamber of Greece since October 2010 (no: 127002), and the Founder and CEO of Think Through Design Architectural, Urban and Landscape Design Studio. She holds a PhD Degree in Architectural Engineering, an MPhil Degree in Architecture and Urbanism (Inter-Departmental Postgraduate Program “Design, Space, Culture”) from the National Technical University of Athens (2013), an MSc Degree in Sustainable Environmental Design from the Architectural Association (2011), and a MArchEng Degree in Architectural Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2010).
She has presented her research work at more than 122 international scientific conferences and has more than 119 scientific publications. Among her publications are the following four monographs:
- Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices: Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century (Routledge, 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003372080),
- Drawing and Experiencing Architecture: The Evolving Significance of City’s Inhabitants in the 20th Century (Transcript Publishing, 2022, doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839464885)
- Architecture, Photography and the Moving Eyes of Architects: The View from the Car (Routledge, 2025),
- Reinventing Modern Architecture in Greece: From Sentimental Topography to Topographical Sensitivity (Routledge, 2025).
On 11 February 2022, in the framework of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2022, she was selected by ETH Zurich among the women role models conducting research in Science. Among her highly cited articled is “Urban scale digital twins in data-driven society: Challenging digital universalism in urban planning decision-making” published in the International Journal of Architectural Computing (https://doi.org/10.1177/14780771211070005).
At Athens School of Fine Arts, she was the Principal Investigator of the research project “Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti’s Post-war Reconstruction Agendas in Greece and in Italy: Centralising and Decentralising Political Apparatus”, which was supported by the Hellenic Foundation of Research and Innovation. She was also the Principal Investigator of the research project “The Travelling Architect’s Eye: Photography and the Automobile Vision” at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich, and the research project “The Fictional Addressee of Architecture as a Device for Exploring Post-colonial Culture: The Transformations of the Helleno-centric Approaches” at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens. She curated the exhibition “The View from the Car: Autopia as a New Perceptual Regime” at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich. She was a Visiting Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, the École française de Rome, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Getty Research Institute. She is the Principal and Founder of “Marianna Charitonidou Think Through Design Architectural, Urban and Landscape Design Studio” based in Athens, Greece.