Monospace and Multiverse: Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory (Materialities) - Softcover

Hansmann; Sabine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3837655024 ISBN 13: 9783837655025

Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2021

Synopsis

In contrast to buildings divided by walls, monospace buildings are determined far less by its shell than by a reciprocal relationship between space and practices, objects, materials, and human bodies. Using the example of such one-room-architectures, this book explores the potential of an actor-network-theory (ANT) approach to space in the field of architecture. Sabine Hansmann focuses on the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, England by Foster Associates (1978) to investigate the mutual entanglement of people, objects and building. She traces the work that is necessary in »doing« space and thus suggests a re-conceptualisation of space in architectural theory.

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About the Author

Sabine Hansmann (Dr.-Ing) is a researcher at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and the City at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. She teaches at the COOP Design Research Program by Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and Hochschule Anhalt in cooperation with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From 2013-2018 she was a member of the Laboratory for Integrative Architecture at the Technische Universität Berlin and the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Both provided the framework for her doctoral thesis (2019). In 2017, she was a visiting researcher at the Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG). Her research focuses on architecture, urbanism, spatial theory, actor-network-theory and material semiotics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837655024
• ISBN 13: 9783837655025
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244