Athens

Focusing on the city of Athens, this book examines architecture as something that produces culture and ideology - rather than the opposite. Therefore, this book aims to complement architectural and urban theories that are based only on historical overviews or typological assumptions.

Stavros Kousoulas is Assistant Professor of Architecture Philosophy and Theory, and research leader of the Department of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment in TU Delft. He studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and at TU Delft, and received his PhD cum laude from IUAV Venice. He is the executive editor of Footprint Delft Architecture Theory Journal. He is the author of the monograph Architectural Technicities (Routledge, 2022) and the edited volumes Architectures of Life and Death (RLI, 2021), Design Commons (Springer, 2022), The Space of Technicity (TUD Open, 2024), and Noetics without a Mind (TUD Open, 2024).

List of figures 0. Urban Immanence 1. 401 BCE: Fundamental Lethe 2. 1834: Athens, Brasilia 3. 1922: Crossing Thresholds 4. 1955: The Inside of the Outside 5. 1981: At Once and Everywhere 6. 2004: An Athens yet to Come 7. (Any) Now Index