Dr Alexandra Stara

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About

I teach history and theory in the Department of Architecture & Landscape, and supervise several PhD students. I have previously led the MArch history and dissertation modules, directed the MA Architecture: Thinking Building and the Graduate Diploma in Architecture (RIBA/ARB Part 2).

I am a trained architect with Masters degrees in Advanced Architectural Studies from The Bartlett UCL, and in the History & Philosophy of Architecture from the University of Cambridge. I also hold a doctorate in the History of Art from the University of Oxford and a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

I have lectured, examined and published internationally on the hermeneutics of art, architecture and the modern museum for the past thirty years. I have been judge and chair of the RIBA President's Medals 2009-2014, a member of the editorial board of The Architectural Review, and I am currently on the panel of the Queen's Anniversary Prizes, as well as a referee for a number of international publications on art and architecture.

Academic responsibilities

Associate Professor and Reader in the History and Theory of Architecture

Qualifications

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2015
  • DPhil (PhD), Department of the History of Art and Worcester College, University of Oxford, 1999
  • MPhil, Department of Architecture and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, 1993
  • MSc, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, 1991
  • Registered Architect-Engineer at the Technical Chamber of Greece (RIBA/ARB Part 3 equivalent), 1990
  • Diploma of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, 1989

Teaching and learning

Undergraduate courses taught

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

My research explores encounters between architecture and the arts, and the relationship of past and present in current practice. I investigate these relationships across historical and contemporary manifestations, focusing on questions of continuity, the invention of heritage and the changing role of curating. My most recent book, a collection of the late Dalibor Vesely's essays, co-edited with Peter Carl, brings to light new and hard-to-access material for those familiar with the seminal architectural philosopher's thought, while also presenting a compelling introduction to his writing and its profound relevance for architecture and culture today. My earlier books include the first publication in English on the eighteenth-century Museum of French Monuments in Paris, based on original research and exploring the ideas of historic monument and national heritage through the quest for collective identity in emerging modernity; and two edited volumes, on curating architecture and the city, and on trauma in art and literature, which map different aspects of the idea of place and its representations across media. Photography as a means of interpreting our environment is an ongoing concern, and the focus of several papers and events, including an Arts Council funded exhibition. I am currently working on a project investigating ways in which architectural practice in recent years has returned to a critical engagement with historical precedent.

Research student supervision

Publications

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Number of items: 47.

Article

(2013) History of Photography, 37(3), pp. 353-359. ISSN (print) 0308-7298

(2012) The Architects' Journal, 235(1), pp. 30-31. ISSN (print) 0003-8466

(2010) Bauwelt, 43(10), p. 34. ISSN (print) 0005-6855

(2009) The Architectural Review, CCXXV(1348), pp. 24-26. ISSN (print) 0003-861X

(2009) London Independent Photography, Spring(12), pp. 24-25. ISSN (print) 1746-4153

[Reviewer] (2008) The Architects' Journal, p. 53. ISSN (print) 0003-8466

[Reviewer] (2008) The Architects' Journal, 227(18), pp. 49-50. ISSN (print) 0003-8466

, and Imas, Miguel (2008) Culture and Organization, 14(1), pp. 49-64. ISSN (print) 1475-9551

(2008) KIOSK(2), pp. 56-59. ISSN (print) 1755-9626

(2007) Architecture Today, 175, pp. 40-49. ISSN (print) 0958-6407

(2005) Scroope: Cambridge Architecture Journal, pp. 136-143. ISSN (print) 0966-1026

(2003) AA Files, 49, pp. 14-19. ISSN (print) 0261-6823

(2000) Annals For Aesthetics, 39, pp. 163-174. ISSN (print) 1105-0462

(1993) Scroope: Cambridge Architecture Journal(5), pp. 17-19. ISSN (print) 0966-1026

Book

Vesely, Dalibor, [Editor] and Carl, Peter [Editor] (2023) Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. 330p. ISBN 9781032223254

Benyei, Tamas and Stara, Alexandra, eds. (2014) Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 224p. ISBN 9781443853422

(2013) Farnham, U.K. : Ashgate. 198p. (The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950) ISBN 9781409437994

Chaplin, Sarah and Stara, Alexandra, eds. (2002) Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. 258p. (AHRA Critiques: Critical studies in architectural humanities) ISBN 9780415489836

Book Section

(2023) In: Landrum, Lisa and Ridgway, Sam, (eds.) Theatres of architectural imagination. Routledge. pp. 131-143. ISBN 9781032286112

(2020) In: Troiani, Igea and Campbell, Hugh, (eds.) Architecture Filmmaking. Bristol, UK : Intellect Books. pp. 39-56. ISBN 9781783209941

(2019) In: Jones, Alan and Hyde, Rob, (eds.) Defining contemporary professionalism: for architects in practice and education. London, U.K. : RIBA Publishing. pp. 222-225. ISBN 9781859468470

(2019) In: Adler, Gerald and Guerci, Manolo, (eds.) Riverine : architecture and rivers. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. ISBN 9781138681750

(2015) In: Kristoffer, Arvidsson, (ed.) Skiascope 7: Art, Museum, Architecture. Gothenburg, Sweden : Gothenburg Museum of Art. pp. 50-87. (Skiascope: Annual Publication of the Gothenburg Museum of Art) ISBN 9789187968921

(2015) In: Pultz Moslund, Sten , Ring Petersen, Anne and Schramm, Moritz, (eds.) The culture of migration: politics, aesthetics and histories. London, U.K. : I. B. Tauris. pp. 257-269. ISBN 9781784533106

(2015) In: Lynch Architects, (ed.) Mimesis: Lynch Architects. London, U.K. : Artifice Books on Architecture. pp. 23-70. ISBN 9781908967664

(2015) In: Stewart, Christopher and Teichmann, Esther, (eds.) Staging Disorder. London : Black Dog Publishing. pp. 14-16. ISBN 9781910433157

Benyei, Tamas and (2014) In: Benyei, Tamas and Stara, Alexandra, (eds.) The edges of trauma: explorations in visual art and literature. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 1-17. ISBN 9781443853422

(2014) In: Benyei, Tamas and Stara, Alexandra, (eds.) The edges of trauma: explorations in visual art and literature. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 181-190. ISBN 9781443853422

(2012) In: Emmons, Paul , Lomholt, Jane and Hendrix, John, (eds.) The cultural role of architecture. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 123-131. ISBN 9780415783408

(2012) In: Hill, Kate, (ed.) Museums and biographies: stories, objects, identities. Woodbridge, U.K. : Boydell & Brewer. pp. 265-276. (Heritage Matters) ISBN 9781843837275

(2010) In: Bandyopadhyay, Soumyen , Lomholt, Jane , Temple, Nicholas and Tobe, Ren茅e, (eds.) The Humanities in Architectural Design: A contemporary and Historical Perspective. Oxford, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 28-35. ISBN 9780415551144

and (2009) In: Chaplin, Sarah and Stara, Alexandra, (eds.) Curating architecture and the city. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 1-5. (AHRA Critiques: Critical studies in architectural humanities) ISBN 9780415489836

(2009) In: Chaplin, Sarah and Stara, Alexandra, (eds.) Curating architecture and the city. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 233-245. (AHRA Critiques: Critical studies in architectural humanities) ISBN 9780415489836

(2008) In: Smith, Deborah, (ed.) In the space of elsewhere. Kingston-upon-Thames, UK : Stanley Picker Gallery. pp. 35-38. ISBN 9780955474484

Conference or Workshop Item

(2021) In: Frascari Symposium V: Theatres of architectural imagination; 27-29 May 2021, Montr茅al and Manitoba [ONLINE]. (Unpublished)

(2017) In: Copycat. Dealing with Dangerous Mimesis; 23-25 Feb 2017, Weimar, Germany. (Unpublished)

(2014) In: Riverine Conference 2014; 26-28 Jun 2014, Canterbury, U.K. (Unpublished)

(2013) In: Form Finding, Form Shaping, Designing Architecture; 10-11 Oct 2013, Mendrisio, Switzerland. (Unpublished)

[Organizer of meeting], Luxemburg, Rut Blees [Speaker], Collins, Hannah [Speaker], McCarthy, Tom [Speaker] and Lynch, Patrick [Speaker] (2010) In: Photography as alternative urbanism; 10 Nov 2010, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)

(2010) In: Emerging Landscapes; 25 - 27 Jun 2010, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)

(2010) In: The Cultural Role of Architecture; 23 - 25 Jun 2010, Lincoln, U.K.. (Unpublished)

(2010) In: Exploring the Edge of Trauma; 13 - 16 May 2010, Chichester, U.K.. (Unpublished)

(2009) In: Architecture + phenomenology; 26-29 Jun 2009, Kyoto, Japan. (Unpublished)

(2008) In: Location: the museum, the academy and the studio. 34th AAH Annual Conference; 2-4 Apr 2008, London, UK. (Unpublished)

(2007) In: Architecture, urbanism & curatorship: 4th annual AHRA international conference; 17 - 18 Nov 2007, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)

(2007) In: The Role of the Humanities in Design Creativity; 15-16 Nov 2007, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Exhibition

[Curator] (2009) Strange places: urban landscape photography. , 30 Sep - 21 Nov 2009 , Kingston-upon-Thames, U.K..

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