I have been invited to lecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Sapienza University of Rome, the Department of Art History of the University of Lausanne, the IGmA Institute for Principles of Modern Architecture (Design and Theory) of the University of Stuttgart, the University Institute of Architecture of Chandigarh University, and the Department of Social Anthropology of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences among other universities. Below you can view the themes of some of them:
21-23 October 2025 I have been invited to deliver a talk as a distinguished speaker at the upcoming conference “From Data to Decision Making: Advancing in Environmental Digital Twins”, which will take place at Le Studium Institute for Advanced Studies in Orléans, France
5 June 2024 Ι was invited to deliver a seminar “Artificial intelligence, digital universalism and urban governance: The digital twins of urban scale and the ‘entopia’ of Konstantinos Doxiadis” at the Department of Social Anthropology of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
3 June 2024 Marianna Charitonidou, “Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti’s Urban Politics vis-à-vis Urban Morphology Debates”, lecture delivered in the framework of Urban Morphology Course, Master’s Degree Architecture (Conservation), Faculty of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome
9 April 2024 I was invited to deliver a keynote entitled “Urban governance and rural-urban fringe in the post-war reconstruction agenda of Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti: Centralized and decentralized political apparatuses in architecture and urban planning” in the framework of the 2nd International Conference on Trends in Architecture and Construction (ICTAC 2024), which will be held on 9 April 2024 and is co-organized by CHANDIGARH UNIVERSITY, Università degli Studi di Firenze and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
21 March 2024 Marianna Charitonidou, “Ekistics and Urban Space in Constantinos A. Doxiadis’s Theory: Public Space from the Ancient Greek City to the First Declaration of Delos”, lecture delivered at the University of Lausanne in the framework of the MA Course “Public Space in/as/around Art” coordinated by Dr. Desmond Kraege
19 November 2021 I was invited to deliver a keynote lecture entitled “Teaching Architectural History and Intersectionality: Diversity in the Dissemination of Knowledge” at the SPACE International Conference 2021 on Architectural History and Theory, SPACE Studies of Planning and Architecture, London, UK
9 June 2020 Marianna Charitonidou, “Autopia as New Perceptual Regime: Mobilized Gaze and Architectural Design”, Architecture Foundation ‘100 Day Studio’ initiative, London, UK
20 May and 17 July 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, IGmA Institute for Principles of Modern Architecture (Design and Theory) of the University of Stuttgart
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12 May 2020 Marianna Charitonidou, “On Visual Evidence: Sketches, Drawings and Photographs as Research Materials”, “THE ARCHITECTURE OF RESEARCH 4 GTA DOCTORAL PROGRAMME WORKSHOP”, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/529681
17 May 2018 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, Paris, France
13 June 2016 Marianna Charitonidou, “Entre Bernard Tschumi et Frank Gehry: autour de l’approche déconstructiviste en architecture”, Presentation at the Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre – Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Paris, France
Entre Bernard Tschumi et Frank Gehry: autour de l’approche déconstructiviste en architecture
Dans le cadre de cette conférence, dans un premier temps, je vais présenter certains projets de l’architecte Bernard Tschumi. Je vais vous exposer le contenu de ces travaux vis-à-vis du contexte historique duquel ils ont émergé. Je vais aussi vous expliquer les concepts qui se situent au cœur de sa réflexion et pratique architecturale. Les concepts fondateurs de sa pratique sont l’espace, le mouvement et l’événement. Bernard Tschumi semble percevoir la conception architecturale comme la mise en scène des espaces de circulation. Tschumi conçoit l’architecturer comme un événement. Parmi les projets que je vais présenter seront : l’aménagement du Parc de La Villette, Le Musée de l’Acropole à Athènes, Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains à Tourcoing, le Zénith de Limoges Métropole et la rénovation parc zoologique de Paris à Vincennes. Dans un deuxième temps, je vais présenter certains projets l’architecte Frank Gehry. Je vais me focaliser sur l’analyse du rapport entre le geste manuel et le geste digital dans sa réflexion et pratique architecturale. La démarche architecturale de Gehry propose une approche différente de la construction conventionnelle des divers bâtiments. Puissante, elle se joue de la pesanteur, déployant des volumes défiant les nuages. Innovante, elle provoque des ruptures visuelles revisitant les perspectives. Narrative, elle invente une conception futuriste suscitant surprises et émotions. Parmi les projets que je vais présenter seront : le bâtiment de la Cinémathèque française à Bercy de Paris, la maison dansante, ou maison qui danse au centre de Prague, le musée Guggenheim de Bilbao et le Walt Disney Concert Hall à Los Angeles.
7 April 2016 Marianna Charitonidou, “Virtual Images and History of Representation”, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Malaquais, Paris, France
30 March 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, Paris, France, https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/499065
Dr. Marianna Charitonidou 