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

by Sabine Hansmann (Author)

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 o inestiate 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 Biography

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.