Voyeurism: the inevitable condition of the metropolitan experience

This research thesis surrenders to the randomness of the gaze, the fleeting moments and the imaginative; the mind travelling and the questions that arise from wandering through the city streets. A sensorial reading of the city that seeks justification through art. The art that is inspired by life itself, that guides the gaze and is being guided by it. A subjective look that holds its charm to the millions of interpretations from millions of human beings.

The stimulations that the city has to offer are innumerable and often unexpected. On a smaller scale, this research acknowledges these stimulations in the Greek apartment building, the polykatoikia. Human lives that are making moves concurrently and only a voyeur is able to captivate the complexity of these lives that unfolds simultaneously on different levels of the city. Neighbours that live a few centimeters away from each other and don’t realize the proximity. The architectural tool that can translate the parallel condition is the section; a moment of realization on how the human body moves through space.

The research aspires to present the way we perceive the city and maybe enrich the experience of the reader in it...countless stories are awaiting to be unveiled to whoever is ready to notice them.

The second part of the research consists of a personal collection of photographs, offering a voyeuristic view to the Greek urban scene.