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Dr Eva Branscome
Associate Professor
The Bartlett School of Architecture
Faculty of the Built Environment
- Joined UCL
- 1st Jul 2011
Research summary
Eva Branscome's research interests include:
- Modern architecture in Europe
- Historic Urban environments and their tangible and intangible heritage
- Migration of ideas and people and how this is readable within the urban fabric
- Cities as complex cultural constructions
- Gender as it affects the subdivision and use of built spaces
- Domesticity
- Museums, exhibition design and curatorial practice
- Avant-garde art and renegade urban art forms such as street art
- Performance spaces
- Photography as a medium between architecture and culture
See current public engagement:
The Bartlett Review 2021: EQUITABLE SPACES
Using theatre to tell Grenfell's deeper history
https://www.thebartlettreview.com/features/using-theatre-to-tell-grenfells-deeper-history
UCL MINDS Podcast in October 2022, Building Better - Space on Fire:
https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/building-better-season-3-space-on-fire?in=uclsound/sets/building-better-the-bartlett
Teaching summary
Eva Branscome has 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 1,Year 2 & Year 3) and MArch Architecture (Year 4), as well as supervising some MArch Architecture (Year 5) theses. For the non-professional courses, she has led field visits/seminars for the MA Architectural History (MAAH), and is the heritage and theory leader on the MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments (MAHUE) teaching the introductory module, as well as supervising several design-based MAHUE Theses.
Currently she is also Departmental Tutor for the BSc Hons Architecture course.
Prior to teaching at the Bartlett Eva Branscome 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’s research and teaching work has two main strands. The first engages with the links between built heritage and cultural practices in contemporary Western cities, notably in terms of the historical development of formal methods of artistic display in cultural institutions, galleries and within public space, and the contrasting values expressed by counter-cultural actions and street art. Originally trained as an interior architect, Eva received first her Master’s degree and then her PhD in Architectural History from the Bartlett School of Architecture. She is also a photographer who is particularly interested in the photographic recording of the everyday urban realm.
These research and teaching topics intersect with her extensive knowledge of and experience in British architectural heritage, having spent nearly a decade as a caseworker for the Twentieth Century Society. This placed her at the forefront of determining the future preservation of the ‘modern historic’ environment in Britain, with around 50 buildings (including the Barbican and Lloyd’s Building) now under historic protection following her successful applications for statutorylisting.
Eva’s second strand of expertise is in the 19th- and 20th-centuryarchitectural history of Central Europe, focussing upon Austria and other regions in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Here her work concentrates particularly on the intersections of architecture and media, such as exhibitions, publications and photography, as well as on museum architecture as a cultural and urban hinge and driver for regeneration. She has been involved in exhibitions at the MAK Gallery in Vienna, the ICA in London and the Museum Abteiberg in Germany as a researcher and co-curator.
Apart from the Bartlett School of Architecture, Eva has taught Architectural History and Theory at the UCL History of Art Department, Queen Mary University’s History Department, and at the schools of architecture at Oxford Brookes University and the University of Westminster.