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

Marianna Charitonidou (Dr. Ing.) is an architect engineer and urban planner, historian and theorist of architecture and urbanism, expert in sustainable environmental design and curator. She is a postdoctoral researcher in architecture and urban planning at Athens School of Fine Arts. She is the founder and principal of Think Through Design Architectural, Urban and Landscape Design Studio.