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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.

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"The book offers a comprehensive exploration of architectural representations' dynamic evolution and their relevance in the contemporary digital age.--Alexandros Daniilidis, University of Sussex ""Urban Studies"" The book is also a significant contribution in clinging drawings and notations with praxis at a time when digitalization of architecture has checkmated architects' attempt to theorize architecture anew using notional systems inherited from pre-digital state of reproducibility.--Gevork Hartoonian ""https: //archithese.ch/"""

"The book is also a significant contribution in clinging drawings and notations with praxis at a time when digitalization of architecture has checkmated architects' attempt to theorize architecture anew using notional systems inherited from pre-digital state of reproducibility.--Gevork Hartoonian ""https: //archithese.ch/"""

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Marianna Charitonidou (Dr.-Ing.) is architect engineer and urbanist, historian & theorist of architecture and urbanism, expert in sustainable environmental design and curator. She is principal investigator at Athens School of Fine Arts and founder and principal of Think Through Design Architectural, Urban and Landscape Design Studio. As lecturer at ETH Zurich, she curated the exhibition 'The View from the Car: Autopia as a New Perceptual Regime'.

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