Introduction
Sophia Psarra
Part I: Imagination
1 A Monument to a Ruin
Jonathan Hill
2 Within the Cimeras: Spaces of Imagination
Ro Spankie
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
Sophia Psarra
4. Book-Worlds and Ordering Systems as Sites for Invention
Christopher Lueder
Part III: Mediations
5 Buildings as Sites for the Production of Architectural Knowledge: Reflections on Replicas in Istanbul, Potsdam and Las Vegas
Adam Sharr
6 Production Sites and Production Sights of New Broadcasting House
James Brown
Part IV: Intersections
7 Fictional Sites of Architecture/Architectural Sites of Fiction
Aarati Kanekar
8 When Does Space Afford a Fleeting and Contingent View of You?
Iris Likourioti
Part V: Reappropriations
9 The Burned Map: Military Theory and Architectural Education
Elke Couchez, Rajesh Heynickx and Yves Schoonjans
10 A Return to the Production of Annotation
Hannah Lewi
Biography
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).
