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Dr Eva Branscome
Lecturer in Architecture
The Bartlett School of Architecture
Faculty of the Built Environment
- Joined UCL
- 1st Jul 2011
Research summary
Eva Branscome's research interest include:
- 20th-century architecture in Austria, Germany and the UK
- Avant-garde art
- Museums, exhibitions design and curatorial practice
- Photography as a medium between architecture and culture
- Cities as complex cultural constructions
- Migration of ideas and people and how this is readable within the urban fabric
- Domesticity
- Renegade urban art forms such as street art
Teaching summary
I
have been teaching at the Bartlett School of Architecture since 2015 in several
capacities. For the BSA’s professional courses, this includes running History
and Theory tutorial groups in the BSc Architecture (Year 2 & Year 3) and MArch Architecture
(Year 4), as well as supervising some MArch Architecture (Year 5) theses. For
the non-professional courses, I have led field visits/seminars for the MA
Architectural History (MAAH), and am the leader for the introductory module on
the MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments (MAHUE), as well as supervising
several design-based MAHUE Theses.
Currently I am also Departmental Tutor for the BSc Hons Architecture course.
Prior to teaching at the Bartlett I had also been running and teaching modules in the UCL History of Art Department, namely Architecture and Modernity: Urban Spaces – Urban Living, as well as Architecture, Photography and the Twentieth Century City, and the Thematic Seminar: Art and the City.
Education
- Other Postgraduate qualification (including professional), ATQ02 - Recognised by the HEA as an Associate Fellow |
- University College London
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 2014
- University College London
- Other higher degree, Master of Science | 1999
- University of North Carolina
- First Degree, Bachelor of Science | 1991
Biography
Dr
Eva Branscome is an Austrian-American architectural historian and writer based
in London, where her research covers many aspects of the history of modern
architecture. Her accomplishments in protecting architectural heritage of the
most recent past, when working for eight years for the Twentieth Century
Society, led to the addition of more than 50 buildings on the statutory list of
historic buildings in England and Scotland; these include the US Embassy, Barbican,
Lloyds and the University of East Anglia. Having completed her doctorate on a
rethinking of Postmodernism through the work of Hans Hollein under the supervision
of Professor Adrian Forty she was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by the
Gerda Henkel Foundation to research the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, widely-known
as Hollein’s masterpiece that opened in the early-1980s. She has been teaching at
University College London since 2012. Her book Hans Hollein and
Postmodernism: Art and Architecture on Austria, 1958-1985 was published
by Routledge in December 2017.
See documentary on current research:
Episode 1
http://www.lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/alles_ist_architektur?nav_id=6320
Episode 2
http://www.lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/kunst_im_deutschen_manchester?nav_id=6321
Episode 3
http://www.lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/die_inneren_werte?nav_id=6322
Episode 4 (main interviews in German and English)
http://www.lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/das_generalinterview_mit_dr._eva_branscome?nav_id=6323