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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 interests include:
- Modern architecture in Europe
- Post-war avant-garde in Austrian and German architecture and art
- Historic urban environments and their tangible and intangible heritage
- Cities as complex cultural constructions
- Migration of ideas and people and how this is readable within the urban fabric
- Domesticity
- Museums, exhibition design and curatorial practice
- Photography as a medium between architecture and culture
- Renegade urban art forms such as street art
- Media related to architecture and cities
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 statutory listing.
Eva’s
second strand of expertise is in the 19th- and 20th-century
architectural 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.