Monospace and Multiverse : : Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory / / Sabine Hansmann.

• VerfasserIn: Hansmann, Sabine,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

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