The Production Sites of Architecture

Sophia Psarra is Professor at the Bartlett, University College London, UK. Previously, she was Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University. Her research explores the relationship between spatial characteristics, use, social relations and cultural meaning. Psarra has collaborated on the relationship between layout, exhibition narratives and visitors' experience with cultural institutions such as the MoMA in New York and the Natural History Museum in London. She has won first prizes in international architectural competitions and her work has been exhibited at Venice Biennale, the George Pompidou Center, NAI Rotterdam, and in London, Berlin, Milan and Athens. She is the author of Architecture and Narrative (2009) and The Venice Variations (2018).

Introduction: Arcitecture as a Many-Part System Part I: Imagination 1 A Monument to a Ruin 2 Within the Cimeras: Spaces of Imagination Part II: Worldmaking 3 The Scholar-collector as a Site of Production: Spatial and Imaginative Intersections in Soane and Freud's Spaces and Private Collection 4 Book-Worlds and Ordering Systems as Sites of Invention Part III: Mediations 5 Buildings as Sites for the Production of Architectural Knowledge: Reflections on Replicas in Istanbul, Dresden and Las Vegas 6 The Production Sites and Production Sights of New Broadcasting House Part IV: Intersections 7 Fictional Sites of Architecture/Architectural Sites of Fiction 8 When Does Space Afford a Fleeting and Contingent View of You? Part V: Re-appropriations 9 The Burned Map: Military Theory and Architectural Education 10 A Return to the Production of Annotation