Monospace and Multiverse

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.

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.