This presentation is about the first-generation urban designer Conzen Doxiadis.pptx

This presentation is about the first-generation urban designer Conzen Doxiadis

1. C.A.Doxiadis … Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis Greek architect and urban planner T he originator or Father of Ekistics--the Science of Human Settlements 12/1/2010 1 C.A.Doxiadis .. The Sceince of Human Settlements

2. Biography 1913 - born 1935 - Obtained his degree in architectural engineering from the Technical University of Athens 1936 - Obtained his doctorate from the Berlin- Charlottenburg University 1937 - He began his (almost one and a half decade) government service, as Chief Town Planning Officer for the Greater Athens area 1940-1945 - he was the Head of the Department of Regional and Town Planning in the Ministry of Public Works, and adjunct corporal in the Greek army - he was designated as Deputy Minister and Director General of the Ministry of Housing and Reconstruction 1945-1948 - he had the honor of being Minister-Coordinator of the Greek Recovery Program 1948-1951 - Undersecretary of the Ministry of Coordination 1951 - he founded his private consulting firm-- Doxiadis Associates 12/1/2010 2 C.A.Doxiadis.. The Sceince of Human Settlements

3. Theories - Doxiadis proposed ekistics as a science of human settlement and outlined its scope, aims, intellectual framework and relevance. A major incentive for the development of the science is the emergence of increasingly large and complex settlements, tending to regional conurbations and even to a worldwide city ( Doxiadis uses the word " ecumenopolis "). Ekistics aims to encompass all scales of human habitation and seeks to learn from the archaeological and historical record by looking not only at great cities, but, as much as possible, at the total settlement pattern. Publications - Ekistics : An Introduction to the Science of Human Settlements. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. - Anthropopolis : City for Human Development.New York: W.W. Norton, 1974. - Ecumenopolis : The Inevitable City of the Future. With J.G. Papaioannou . Athens: Athens Center of Ekistics, 1974. - Building Entopia . Athens: Athens Publishing Center, 1975. Action for Human Settlements. New York: W.W. Norton, 1976. 12/1/2010 3 C.A.Doxiadis.. The Sceince of Human Settlements

4. Islamabad the Capital of Pakistan THE CONCEPTION OF THE MASTER PLAN The main high ways The three parts of the metropolitan area The central functions of Islamabad and Rawa lpindi 12/1/2010 4 C.A.Doxiadis.. The Sceince of Human Settlements

5. Islamabad the Capital of Pakistan THE CONCEPTION OF THE MASTER PLAN The sketch indicates growth of functions in the direction of the city's future expansion Rawalpindi The National Park 12/1/2010 5 C.A.Doxiadis.. The Sceince of Human Settlements

6. Islamabad the Capital of Pakistan THE CONCEPTION OF THE MASTER PLAN Islamabad (model) - Bird's eyeview from N.E.; the Capitol with the main administrative center, the sectors of public buildings and residential communities The Master Plan of the Metropolitan Area 12/1/2010 6 C.A.Doxiadis.. The Sceince of Human Settlements

7. Islamabad the Capital of Pakistan THE CONCEPTION OF THE MASTER PLAN Social Planning The administrative sector within Islamabad Interrelation of functions in the administrative center Structure of Communities 12/1/2010 7 C.A.Doxiadis.. The Sceince of Human Settlements A Community Class IV for about 12,000 people A Community Class III for about 3,000 people

8. Islamabad the Capital of Pakistan THE CONCEPTION OF THE MASTER PLAN Social Planning The green areas in a Community Class V for about 40, 000 people Distribution of incomes in a Community Class IV Vehicular and pedestrian roads 12/1/2010 8 C.A.Doxiadis.. The Sceince of Human Settlements

9. Islamabad the Capital of Pakistan THE CONCEPTION OF THE MASTER PLAN Facilities Water softening installations at the Nurpur spring Sewage aeration tank in Islamabad, during construction The intersection of the Islamabad and Murree highways under construction 12/1/2010 9 C.A.Doxiadis.. The Sceince of Human Settlements

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11. Acropolis and Athens City Plan Athens, Greece c. 460 BCE The top drawing is a plan by Dioxadis showing his geometric mapping of the Acropolis site after 450 BCE. The bottom drawing is a diagrammatic collage of the same polar coordinates established by Doxiadis as they are extended on to a plan of Athens, Greece circa 460 BCE. The radius of the largest circle in the diagram is derived from the curvature of the east and west sides of the Parthenon’s stylobate (and K. Karatheodori’s hypothesis that these curves are arcs in a cirlce with a radius of 1850 meters). Dioxades’s diagrams can be understood not only in relation to Thale’s or Anaximander’s belief that an universal order could be def ned through geometry, but also that the physical principles of the nature could be revealed through the organization of space around geometric applications . Moreover, the circular logic identif ed by Dioxades could have been used to articulate both the nature of the universe through the lay-out of the Acropolis and the site’s relation to the larger physical space of the city of Athens . As such, we might read the Acropolis’s rebuilding under Pericles as the architecturalization of a naturally occurring circular logic which was understood to govern the natural organization of the city of Athens and the universe. “In old days the hill of the Acropolis extended to the Eridianus and Ilissus , and included the Pnyx on one side and Lycabettus as a boundary on the opposite of the hill.” -Plato, Kritias 112 12/1/2010 11 C.A.Doxiadis.. The Sceince of Human Settlements

12. Geometric mapping of the Acropolis site after 450 BCE Acropolis and Athens City Plan Athens, Greece c. 460 BCE 12/1/2010 12 C.A.Doxiadis.. The Sceince of Human Settlements

13. Diagrammatic collage of the same polar coordinates established by Doxiadis as they are extended on to a plan of Athens, Greece circa 460 BCE. 12/1/2010 13 C.A.Doxiadis.. The Sceince of Human Settlements