Inhabitation, difference, performance: Architectural linearity in three movements (2023)
Journal Article
Banou, S. (2023). Inhabitation, difference, performance: Architectural linearity in three movements. Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice, 8(1), 49-69. https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00105_1

This article questions the temporal and material limitations of architectural representation, as they emerge through the problematic relationship between architectural drawing, considered as a static object of fixed convention and space as an inheren... Read More about Inhabitation, difference, performance: Architectural linearity in three movements.

The intimate archive: Sites of representation and embodiment in a reading of Drawing Matter (2022)
Book Chapter
Banou, S. (2022). The intimate archive: Sites of representation and embodiment in a reading of Drawing Matter. In F. Goffi (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models: From Translating to Archiving, Collecting and Displaying. London: Routledge

This chapter draws from Frascari’s discussion of “Drawings as loci for thought” () as well as earlier research on the “situation of drawing” (Banou 2015), to propose that the drawing archive inherits modes of embodied cognition from the particular mo... Read More about The intimate archive: Sites of representation and embodiment in a reading of Drawing Matter.

Studio archaeology (2021)
Physical Artefact
Banou, S., Carless, T., Drozynski, C., Grogoriadou, E., Hynam, M., Littlefield, D., & Roush, P. Studio archaeology. [Paper, concertina and six pamphlets]. London

Spatial imagination, free-hand and digital drawing, model making and diagramming, modelling techniques, theoretical position, are a particular focus, this year, to focus upon the human occupation of space, the loss of social space correlating with th... Read More about Studio archaeology.

Draw of a Drawing (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Banou, S. (2020). Draw of a Drawing. In D. Hallama, R. Liptau, A. K. Hougaard, G. Lidia, C. Rikke Lyngsø, & E. Drach (Eds.), Artefakte des Entwerfens (182-191)

Draw of a Drawing is a transcription of the installation Kaleidoscopic City (a survey of Edinburgh focused on the transitory elements of the urban). As such it marks the moment that the elements of the survey are projected upon a single surface. Und... Read More about Draw of a Drawing.

The architectural virtual: From language to experience (2020)
Book Chapter
Banou, S. (2020). The architectural virtual: From language to experience. In A. Hougaard, & M. Søberg (Eds.), The Arftul Plan: Architectural Drawing Reconfigured (206-221). Basel/Berlin/Boston: Birkhäuser

In recent decades, architecture has persistently engaged with defining its relationship to digitization. The practice of architectural drawing has often been at the centre of this discussion, which has questioned its relevance by putting emphasis on... Read More about The architectural virtual: From language to experience.

A move into drawing (2019)
Journal Article
Banou, S. (2019). A move into drawing. Architecture and Culture, 7(2), 171-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2019.1633504

This article presents part of the process leading to the large-scale three-dimensional drawing entitled Weaving Lines/Looming Narratives (2013), through a series of three images. The project engaged with questions of presence and representation in th... Read More about A move into drawing.

Out of place and off the grid: Dwelling on the architectural image (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Banou, S. (2019, December). Out of place and off the grid: Dwelling on the architectural image. Paper presented at Creativity and reality: The art of building future cities, 1st International Conference on Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome, Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto, Rome, Italy

This paper looks into the concept of displacement as sketched out by the changing conditions of living in and experiencing the city, in the context of a digitised visual culture. As the city is now changing not through the physicality of form but thr... Read More about Out of place and off the grid: Dwelling on the architectural image.

Architectures of Drawing: critical drawing as spatial practice (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Banou, S. (2019, November). Architectures of Drawing: critical drawing as spatial practice. Paper presented at UWE Drawing Research Symposium, Arnolfini, Bristol

Architectural drawing relies on long lasting traditions of projective abstraction. Often compared to such analogical processes of thinking as translation from drawing to building (Evans), these conventions define rules for constructing but also for f... Read More about Architectures of Drawing: critical drawing as spatial practice.

The Intimate Archive: Rural Excursions in Drawing (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Banou, S. (2019, June). The Intimate Archive: Rural Excursions in Drawing. Paper presented at Frascari Symposium IV, The Secret Lives of Architectural Drawings and Models: From Translating to Archiving, Collecting, and Displaying, Kingston School of Art, London

In the Summer of 2017 I spent a week in a store in Shatwell Farm, situated in a North Somerset valley. Redesigned in 2014 by Hugh Strange in 2014, the barn is home to the collection of drawings, models and other architectural paraphernalia that Drawi... Read More about The Intimate Archive: Rural Excursions in Drawing.

Materiality of the Visual: Reimagi(ni)ng the City (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Banou, S. (2014, March). Materiality of the Visual: Reimagi(ni)ng the City. Paper presented at What Images Do Symposium, KADK, The Royal Danish Academy Schools of Architecture, Design, Conservation and Visual Art, Copenhagen

The 19th century, was a period of rapid developments in the field of optics with the invention of a series of optical devices that imitated or expanded the capabilities of the eye. The increasing mobility of the world due to the mechanization imposed... Read More about Materiality of the Visual: Reimagi(ni)ng the City.

Kaleidoscopic City: Through the looking lens (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Banou, S. (2013, October). Kaleidoscopic City: Through the looking lens. Presented at Plenitude and Emptiness: Symposium on Architectural Research by Design, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh: Inspace

This project critically addresses the ways that the city has been represented, in architectural practice and beyond, while seeking new ways to articulate the complex unseen weave of movements that forms the contemporary city. As the transition from s... Read More about Kaleidoscopic City: Through the looking lens.