Learning from the Acropolis: Modern adventures in ancient space Part 1 Dissertation 2025 Itske Hooftman Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | UK 'Learning from the Acropolis: Modern adventures in ancient space' explores how movement, vision, and narrative shape our understanding of architectural space, with the Acropolis in Athens as its focal point. This dissertation traces a spatial journey through the works of James Stillman, Auguste Choisy, Le Corbusier, Sergei Eisenstein, Constantinos Doxiadis, Dimitris Pikionis, and Bernard Tschumi, interrogating how 19th- and 20th-century thinkers re-framed the Acropolis as a site of dynamic encounter. Drawing on visual and textual analysis, and informed by concepts such as serial vision, montage, and the architectural promenade, I examine how the Greco-Picturesque tradition laid the groundwork for a modern visual language rooted in movement and landscape. Using a comparative methodology, I argue that the picturesque lens enabled a re-seeing of the Acropolis - not as static monumentality but as a cinematic unfolding in time and space. The dissertation is designed as a visual-textual journey, allowing the reader to navigate multiple narrative pathways, echoing the experiential nature of the site itself. Ultimately, this research offers a speculative but grounded reappraisal of modern architectural perception, proposing that the Acropolis served not only as a symbol of classical heritage but also as a proto-modern landscape through which new spatial imaginaries were shaped. Tutor(s) Mark Dorrian