Sophia Banou's Outputs (30)

Drawn Utopias: From language to experience (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Goodbye to Language (Adieu au Langage, 2015), was the first film by Jean-Luc Godard to make use of 3D filming techniques. Its title suggests a conflict between the word and the image while it can also be considered to refer to the concept of langage... Read More about Drawn Utopias: From language to experience.

Child's play: Adolfo Natalini's 'Disegni per Bambini' (2017)
Journal Article

Online short article

'Spatial blooms' and digital expectations (2017)
Journal Article

Short online article

Drawing the digital: From 'virtual' experiences of spaces to 'real' drawings (2016)
Book Chapter

Over the latter half of the twentieth century the proliferation of images has affected deeply the way we approach and engage with our surroundings, contributing to an increasingly mediated experience of reality. We ‘place’ ourselves in this world not... Read More about Drawing the digital: From 'virtual' experiences of spaces to 'real' drawings.

Textual cities/working drawings: Rereading the space of the drawing (2016)
Book Chapter

The analogy of the text is a common one for space and the city, whether it is referred to in terms of reading, enunciating (De Certeau) or writing it (Serres). In the beginning of the 20th century, the new theories of space-time and the increasing mo... Read More about Textual cities/working drawings: Rereading the space of the drawing.

The city [within] the drawing: The urban in the space of representation (2015)
Journal Article

This paper presents the installation The City [within] The Drawing, the conclusive piece in a series of four installations that engage in exploring the material and temporal limits of architectural drawing conventions. Consisting of both drawn and mo... Read More about The city [within] the drawing: The urban in the space of representation.

Deep surface: On the situation of drawing (2015)
Journal Article

In the essay ‘The Gesture of Writing’, Vilém Flusser describes writing as a ‘penetrating gesture that informs a surface’. Understanding drawing as another form of ‘superficial’ graphic inscription, this paper looks into the implications of this mater... Read More about Deep surface: On the situation of drawing.

Animated gazes: Motion and representation in the kaleidoscopic city (2015)
Journal Article

This paper critically addresses modes of graphic representations of the city prevalent in architectural discourse, while seeking new ways to make visible the complex weave of movements that form the contemporary urban condition. The architectural con... Read More about Animated gazes: Motion and representation in the kaleidoscopic city.

Materiality of the Visual: Reimagi(ni)ng the City (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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 Contribution

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.