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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.

Picture perfect: Maps and other measures of the contemporary city (2018)
Journal Article
Banou, S. (2018). Picture perfect: Maps and other measures of the contemporary city. lo Squaderno, 50, 7-12

Jorge Luis Borges’ short story ‘On Exactitude in Science’ (1946) has been referred to innumerous times: it features a map that is repeatedly revisited and scaled up, until it becomes contiguous with its referent object (the territory) and effaces it.... Read More about Picture perfect: Maps and other measures of the contemporary city.

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

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.

Animated gazes: Motion and representation in the kaleidoscopic city (2015)
Journal Article
Banou, S. (2015). Animated gazes: Motion and representation in the kaleidoscopic city

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.