Sensing Architecture sets out to provide a thoughtful commentary on our lived experience of inhabiting the world from several different and often surprising angles. The essays derive from a symposium of the same name held in March 2014 at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, which accompanied the exhibition ‘Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined’, in which seven leading architects created unique installations that the public was invited to move through and explore. Four papers from the symposium are included in this collection in revised and expanded form. They are joined by an essay from curator Kate Goodwin reflecting in detail on the ideas that informed ‘Sensing Spaces’, introduced with a series of images of the exhibition taken by the architectural photographer Hélène Binet. This collection is conceived to complement the exhibition’s insights and to offer further consideration of the different registers of ideas – philosophical, psychological, social and economic – that shape our experience of architecture.
About the author
Nicole Sierra is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of English at King’s College London, where she teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and critical theory. She holds a Ph D from Oxford, and has previously taught at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University. Her recent co-edited collection, Spatial Perspectives: Essays on Literature and Architecture, was published by Peter Lang in 2015. She is currently finishing a monograph on architecture, literature and postmodernism and working on a book project on the British-born Surrealist Leonora Carrington.
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