Dr
Adam Sharr
Architecture
History Theory Group
RESEARCH THROUGH WRITING:
Current Projects:
Architecture and Culture
A collection of essays aimed at consolidating a distinctive strand of architectural research: reading buildings and their details as artefacts of the cultures in which they were inhabited, procured, designed and built. To be published by Routledge, 2011. Contributors include David Leatherbarrow, Marco Frascari, Michael Cadwell, George Dodds, Jane Rendell and Jonathan Hill.
Demolishing Whitehall: Harold Wilson, Leslie Martin and the Architecture of White Heat. An interdisciplinary architecture, politics and history book about Leslie Martin’s 1965 scheme to rebuild Whitehall. Two years after Harold Wilson’s ‘white heat of technology’ speech and three years before the ‘evenements’ of 1968, Martin’s proposal displays the particular priorities of its time: technological, utopian, socialist and institutional. Book proposal, with Stephen Thornton, Political Science, Cardiff University, presently under consideration.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Architecture
A book proposal solicited by Ashgate, in preparation, for a reader in architectural research.
Series Editor:
Thinkers for Architects, Routledge.
Shortlisted: RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding University Located Research, 2008
First tranche 2007: Andrew Ballantyne, Deleuze and Guattari for Architects; Adam Sharr, Heidegger for Architects; Peg Rawes, Irigaray for Architects.
Second tranche 2010: Felipe Hernandez, Bhabha for Architects; Brian Elliott, Benjamin for Architects; Jonathan A. Hale, Merlau Ponty for Architects, Helena Webster, Bourdieu for Architects.
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Built Environment’s best-selling series 2009
Books:
Sharr A., Heidegger’s Hut (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2006)
Reviews published in New York Times, Los Angeles Times, TLS, Bookforum, Architectural Record, Cultural Politics, Chronicle of Higher Education (US), Wilson Quarterly. Radio interview with ABC National Radio Australia.
Winner: Scholarly Illustrated Category, American Association of University Presses Book, Journal and Jacket Show, 2007.
Translations into Spanish and German:
Sharr A., La Cabana de Heidegger: Un Espacio Para Pensar (Barcelona: GG, 2008)
Sharr A., Heidegger’s Hütte (Freiburg-im-Breisgau: Brinkmann und Bose, 2010)
Sharr A., Heidegger for Architects (London: Routledge, 2007)
Reviews published in Architectural Review, Architects’ Journal, Architectural Record, Building Design, Architectural Theory Review.
Translation forthcoming into Korean
Edited Books:
Odgers J., Samuel F. & Sharr A. (eds.), Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture (London: Routledge, 2006)
Dutoit A., Odgers J. and Sharr A. (eds), Quality Out of Control: Standards for Measuring Architecture (London: Routledge, 2010)
Chapters in Edited Books:
Sharr A., ‘Burning Bruder Klaus’ in Armitage J. (ed.), Virilio Now (London: Polity, 2010). Forthcoming (also in Chinese translation)
Sharr A., ‘Leslie Martin and the Science of Architectural Form’ in Dutoit A., Odgers J. and Sharr A. (eds), Quality Out of Control: Standards for Measuring Architecture (London: Routledge, 2010)
Sharr A. and Dutoit A., ‘Landscapes of Experience: An Interview with Adam Caruso’ in Dutoit A., Odgers J. and Sharr A. (eds), Quality Out of Control: Standards for Measuring Architecture (London: Routledge, 2010)
Sharr A., ‘Building to Think About Dwelling: A New House in the Wye Valley’ in Temple N. and Bandyophay S. (eds.), Thinking Practice (London: Black Dog, 2007).
Sharr A., ‘Primitive and the Everyday: Sergison Bates, Lefebvre and the Guilt of Architectural Expertise’ in Odgers J., Samuel F. and Sharr A. (eds.), Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture (London: Routledge, 2006)
Sharr A., ‘The Professor’s House: Martin Heidegger’s House at Freiburg-im-Breisgau’ in Menin S. (ed.), Constructing Place (London: Routledge, 2003)
Papers in Refereed Journals:
Sharr A., ‘The Sedimentation of Memory’, Journal of Architecture (in refereeing)
Sharr A., ‘Selective Memory: Reconstructing Potsdam’s Stadtschloss’, German Life and Letters, 2010 (forthcoming)
Sharr A., ‘Drawing in Good Faith’, Architectural Theory Review, 14:3 (2009), 71-85
Sharr A., Forster W. and Coombs S., ‘A Plywood Soane’, made, 3 (2006), 90-91
Sharr A., ‘Pigeons, Angels and Problems of Taste’, made, 1 (2004), 72-73
Sharr A., ‘Can Architecture Lie? On Truth, Knowledge and Contemporary Architectural Theory’, Architectural Theory Review, 8:2 (2003), 162-170
Sharr A., ‘“Yer” de Yerleÿmek: Heidegger’in Todtnauberg’deki kulübesi’, trans. Bolak-Hisarligil B., TOL: Mimarlik Kültürü Dergisi, 2:3 (2003), 61-67
Sharr A. with Unwin S., ‘Heidegger’s Hut’, arq, 5:1 (2001), 53-61
Paper in Conference Proceedings:
Wood A., Samant S., Sassi P. and Sharr A., ‘Where Will We Put Them All? Practical Strategies for Dealing with Increasing Student Numbers in Architectural Design Studio’ in Newton R., Bowden A. and Betts M. (eds.) Proceedings: CIB W89: International Conference on Building Education and Research BEAR 2003 (Salford: University of Salford, 2003), pp. 902-913.
Edited Exhibition Catalogue:
Sharr A., Sassi P. & Heath T. (eds.), Green Houses (Nottingham: University of Nottingham, 2002)
Conference Papers:
Sharr A., ‘Made With Words’, invited lecture, Constructing Imagination, Virginia Tech, January 2010 (forthcoming)
Sharr A., ‘The Field of Global Capital: On Herzog and De Meuron’s Caixa Forum’, Field/work, AHRA and The University of Edinburgh, November 2009
Sharr A., ‘The Sedimentation of Memory’, Architecture and Phenomenology 2, Kyoto Seika University, July 2009
Sharr A., ‘Strange Decisions: Design, Subversiveness and Magical Realism’, Agency: AHRA and Sheffield University, Sheffield, November 2008
Sharr A., ‘The Sedimentation of Memory’, Cultural Memory, University of Kent, Canterbury, September 2008
Sharr A., ‘On the Tourist Trail with Martin Heidegger: Architecture, Authenticity and Curation’, Architecture, Urbanism, Curation, AHRA and Kingston University, Kingston, November 2007
Sharr A., ‘Space Plus Something: Martin Heidegger’s View From Todtnauberg’, Defining Space, UC Dublin, October 2007
Sharr A., ‘Leslie Martin and the Science of Architectural Form’, Quality, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff, July 2007
Sharr A., ‘The Experts’ Everyday’, Primitive, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff, September 2004
Sharr A., ‘Heidegger’s Hut: A Philosophy of Architecture and an Architecture of Philosophy’, Philosophy of Architecture / Architecture of Philosophy, Centre CATH Congress, Bradford, May 2004
Sharr A., ‘Can Architecture Lie?: On Truth, Knowledge and Contemporary Architectural Theory’, Reviewing Architectural Theory, Coonawarra, South Australia, May 2003
Sharr A., ‘Our Very Own Theory: Acts of Classification in Anthropologies of Place’, Expertise: Conoisseurs, Consulants and Con Men, Harvard Design School, September 2002
Sharr A., ‘The Professor’s House: Martin Heidegger’s House at Freiburg-im-Breisgau’, Constructing Place, University of Newcastle, March 2002
Media:
‘Museum of the Moment’, BBC Wales, March 2009
‘Celan and Heidegger at Todtnauberg’, ABC National Radio Australia, November 2008
‘Heidegger’s Hut’, ABC National Radio Australia, December 2007
RESEARCH THROUGH ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE
Practice as Adam Sharr Architects, 2000-date:
http://www.adamsharr.com
New house at Ingoldingen, Baden, Germany (exhibited National Assembly of Wales 2008 and Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, Virginia Tech, 2010 (forthcoming)).
Field Study Centre for the Llysdinam Trust, Powys (ongoing)
Conservation and Extensions, Cottages at Wixford, Warwickshire (ongoing)
New House at Llethr, Newbridge-on-Wye, Powys, with Ian Standen (shortlisted RIBA Awards 2007; published in Temple N. and Bandyophay S. (eds.), Thinking Practice (London: Black Dog, 2007) and Touchstone (Spring 2008).
Alterations to a house at Windsor Terrace, Penarth (published: Touchstone, Summer 2005)
Housing at Drancy, Paris, for Europan 2004, with Andrew Carr (published: Europan 7: Results France (Paris: Europan, 2005)).
Alterations to a house at Cotton Lane, Moseley, Birmingham
Alterations to a house at Kings Road, Pontcanna, Cardiff
Alterations to a house at Romilly Road West, Cardiff
Alterations to houses at Wellington Road, Newport, Shropshire
with Design Research Unit, Welsh School of Architecture, 2004-2005:
Creative Industries Business Units, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, with Wayne Forster and Steve Coombs (published: made, 2006).
with Wright & Wright Architects, London, 2000-2001
Law Department for London Guildhall University (published: Architects Journal, February 2006)
The Womens’ Library, London (published: Architectural Review, January 2002)
with Dean Hawkes Architect, Cambridge and Cardiff, 1998-1999
Golden House, Dottery, Dorset (published: RIBA Journal, June 1999)
with Carden and Godfrey Architects, London, 1995-1997
Crosby Hall (published: Pople N., Experimental Houses (London: Lawrence King, 2000))
Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills (published: Architects’ Journal, July 1997)
Re-Ordering, Church of St. Winefride, Wimbledon (published: Church Building, August 1997)
>RESEARCH SUPERVISION:
First supervisor:
Samuel Austin, PhD, AHRC funded: Transience and Non-Place: The British Motorway Service Station
Marga Munar Bauza, PhD, staff candidate, The Complexity of Urban Boundaries
Tom Brigden, PhD, AHRC funded: A Strategic View: The Origins, Uses and Abuses of the Protected Vista
Mhiari McVicar, PhD, staff candidate: Precision: Prediction and Control in Constructing Architecture
Rob Stevens, MPhil, Alternative Cartographies and Narratives of Urban Wandering
Edward Wainwright, MPhil, AHRC funded: The Production of Corporate Space: Henri Lefebvre and the Working Methods of DEGW North America. Completed January 2006.
Edward Wainwright, PhD, AHRC funded: Transparency and Obfuscation: Norman Foster, Henri Lefevbre and the Politics of Modern Architecture
Chris Wilkins, MPhil, The Everyday Detail: Architecture, Taste and Experience
ACTIVITIES:
Editor, with Richard Weston, arq (Architectural Research Quarterly, published by Cambridge University Press), 2009-date (Associate Editor of arq 2004-2009)
Series Editor: Thinkers for Architects, published by Routledge. 2006-date
Editorial Board Member: Critical Studies in Architecture Series, published by Routledge.
Editor: (and Founding Editor), made (Materials: Architecture Design Environment, published by the Welsh School of Architecture), 2004-2009
Invited International Lectures: University of La Coruña, Spain (2009); Virginia Tech, USA (guest speaker at Virginia Tech conference Constructing Imagination) (2010), Université de Montreal, Canada (2010).
Founder Member and Steering Group Member, AHRA (Architectural Humantities Research Association), 2004-date
Awards Assessor: RIBA Presidents’ Medals Dissertation Prizes, 2005.
Design Awards Assessor: RIBA Awards, Wales, 2009.
Editorial Referee: Routledge (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009); Ashgate (2008, 2009); University of Minnesota Press (2006); University of Wales Press (2007).
External Examiner: MSc in Architecture, University of Ulster 2009-2011.
External Examiner: PhD: Bartlett, UCL (2007); University of Edinburgh (2008, 2009); University of Sheffield (2009)
Invited Design Critic/Invited Lecturer: Universities of: Cambridge; Bath; Liverpool; Nottingham; London Metropolitan; West of England.
Conference Referee: Models and Drawings, Nottingham University, November 2005; The Politics of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University, October 2006.
Conference Organiser: International, interdisciplinary conferences ‘Primitive’, Cardiff 2005 with Juliet Odgers and Flora Samuel; ‘Quality’, Cardiff 2007, with Allison Dutoit and Juliet Odgers; 6th Annual AHRA Postgraduate Symposium, Cardiff 2009.
Session Chair: Philosophy of Architecture/Architecture of Philosophy, Bradford (2004); Models and Drawings, Nottingham (2005); The Politics of Architecture, Oxford (2006); A+P2 Kyoto Seika University (2009); Field/work (2009).
PRIZES:
2008: Thinkers for Architects, Shortlisted RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding University Located Research
2007: Heidegger’s Hut, Winner: Scholarly Illustrated Category, American Association of University Presses Book, Journal and Jacket Show.
2007: New House at Llethr, Llysdinam, Newbridge-on-Wye, Shortlisted RIBA Awards
1995: Joint First Prize, SPAB Philip Webb Award
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