Looking at the City

Bringing together architects and archaeologists, this volume examines ancient and modern cities as complex hubs of social, economic, and cultural life. Through case studies, contributors explore the methods and shared questions that shape architectural and archaeological approaches to the urban environment.

This volume presents a series of articles by architects, architectural historians and archaeologists on the study of urban areas. Cities were in ancient times, as they continue to be today, hubs of economic, social and cultural development. The complexity of the ancient urban fabric as well as the factors affecting its development raise questions that concern the research fields of archaeology and architecture and demand a multidisciplinary approach between the two fields. The volume brings together architects and archaeologists in order to tackle the different yet converging ways in which the two disciplines approach and try to understand ancient and modern cities. Using case studies, architects and archaeologists address the methods that the two disciplines employ in the study of the urban environment.

Foreword
Mantha Zarmakoupi

CHAPTER 1
Looking at the City | Mantha Zarmakoupi

CHAPTER 2
Where Archaeology Met Architecture | Dimitris Philippides

CHAPTER 3
Surface Survey and Urban Archaeology | Yannis Lolos

CHAPTER 4
Protogeometric – Geometric Mycenae: an Invisible City, a Rising Polis | Alexandros P. Gounaris

CHAPTER 5
Shifting Centralities: Traces of Place and Sediments of Time in Athens | Panayotis Tournikiotis

CHAPTER 6
Re-writing the Father: Juxtapositions between Ancient and Contemporary Art. The case of DESTE Foundation |
Yorgos Tzirtzilakis

CHAPTER 7
The Blue Marble of Greek Architectural History: Delos and the Delos Symposia | Mantha Zarmakoupi

Biographies

• Edited by Mantha Zarmakoupi