Takis Zenetos’s City and House of the Future: Resynchronising Quotidian Life

• Main Author: Marianna Charitonidou
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Festival Architettura Edizioni 2020-12-01
• Series: Festival dell'Architettura Magazine
• Subjects: takis zenetos; tele-work; tele-communication; tele-education; electronic urbanism; living units
• Online Access: https://www.famagazine.it/index.php/famagazine/article/view/527

The article focuses on the analysis of the work of architects as Takis Zenetos, Yona Friedman, and Archigram and examines how he conceptualized the reinvention of the relationship between the living units and the home-office conditions. It pays special attention to his concern about incorporating the new conceptions of “tele-work”, “tele-communication”, and “tele-education” in architecture and urban design. It departs from the hypothesis that several of the core ideas of the experimentations of Zenetos concerning the living units in the city of the future could be incorporated in the design of architectural and urban projects aiming to contribute to pandemic preparedness. Particular emphasis is placed on Zenetos’ endeavour, in his “Electronic Urbanism” to take into account the complexity of the psychological and physiological needs of the citizens.