'Think Through Design' Architectural Design Studio engages with the emergent processes of architectural and urban design and explores strategies of visual mapping, as well as sustainable environmental design strategies and methods of adaptive ecologies and parametric urbanism. Dr. Marianna Charitonidou, who is principal and founder at 'Think Through Design' Architectural Design Studio, is an architectural engineer and urban designer, a historian and theorist of architecture and a sustainable design specialist. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens (project title: “The Fictional Addressee of Architecture as a Device for Exploring Post-colonial Culture: The Transformations of the Helleno-centric Approaches”) and at the Department of Art Theory and History Athens School of Fine Arts (project title “Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti’s Post-war Reconstruction Agendas in Greece and in Italy: Centralizing and Decentralizing Political Apparatus”). 

She was awarded a Doctoral Degree all'unanimità from the National Technical University of Athens in September 2018 for her PhD dissertation entitled ‘The Relationship between Interpretation and Elaboration of Architectural Form: Investigating the Mutations of Architecture's Scope’ (Examination Committee: George Parmenidis, Jean-Louis Cohen, Panayotis Tournikiotis, Pippo Ciorra, Constantinos Moraitis, Bernard Tschumi and Kostas Tsiambaos). In her PhD dissertation, which she is currently editing into a forthcoming book, she investigated the transformations of architecture’s scope through the analysis of the modes of architectural representation employed by Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, the Team 10, Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk, Aldo Rossi, Oswald Mathias Ungers, Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas. 

She was a Visiting Research Scholar at Columbia University’s GSAPP (invited by Bernard Tschumi, 2016-2017) and the École française de Rome (2017-2018) and Research Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) (Doctoral Students Grant Program 2018). She also holds an MSc degree from the Architectural Association (2011), a post-Master’s degree in History and Theory of Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens (2013), and Master’s degrees from the School of Architecture of Aristotle University and École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris (2010 & 2008). She has presented her research at many international conferences and has published several articles. Since 2012 she is teaching at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens and various Schools of Architecture in Paris.