All Outputs (3)

Artificial landscapes: Nature as urban object (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Banou, S. (2022, November). Artificial landscapes: Nature as urban object. Paper presented at RAPS Eindhoven 2022: Entanglements, Online

This paper will focus on the objectification of nature within architectural and urban design in order to define and examine a new ‘iconic’ (Jencks, 2006) turn of architecture, towards the integration of nature as a token of sustainability. The paper... Read More about Artificial landscapes: Nature as urban object.

Land, air and water: Reclaiming the Anthropocene through Bristol’s infrastructural megastructures (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Banou, S., & Hynam, M. (2022, August). Land, air and water: Reclaiming the Anthropocene through Bristol’s infrastructural megastructures. Paper presented at International Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) Conference 2022, Online and at University of the West of England, Bristol

The paper presents work developed across a series of architectural design studios at the Department of Architecture and the Built in Environment at UWE Bristol, and the specific techniques of representation they have tested and refined towards combin... Read More about Land, air and water: Reclaiming the Anthropocene through Bristol’s infrastructural megastructures.

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.