Monospace and Multiverse: Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory

Sabine Hansmann

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2021

Monospace and Multiverse

Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory

Sabine Hansmann
Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Technische Universität Berlin

Volume 28 in the series Materialitäten

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839455029

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Sabine Hansmann is a postdoc researcher at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and the City at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. From 2013-2018 she was a member of LIA 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 the Raummaschine, a kinetic installation at the Gropius Bau Berlin (2016), and 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, and material semiotics.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table of Content Open Access Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	9
1 Introduction Open Access Download PDF	13
2 Opening the Box Open Access Download PDF	37
3 The Case: The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Open Access Download PDF	65
4 In Practice I: Working-With Open Access Download PDF	103
5 In Practice II: Visiting Open Access Download PDF	139
6 In Practice III: Lighting Open Access Download PDF	167
7 A New Dynamism in Architecture Open Access Download PDF	203
List of Figures Open Access Download PDF	223
Building Details Open Access Download PDF	227
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	229

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 244
Keywords: Space; ANT; Actor-Network-Theory; Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts; Museum; Typology

eBook

Published: December 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839455029