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- The Bartlett School of Architecture
- Faculty of the Built Environment
Dr SabinaAndron is a London-based architectural historian and urban scholarspecializing in urban public cultures in the neoliberal city, and methods basedon visual, semiotic and legal analyses.
Her research interests focus onthe right to the city, urban surface inscriptions and materialities, crime andtransgression, and urban semiotics. She completed her PhD in 2018 at theBartlett School of Architecture, University College London, with a thesistitled “Graffiti, Street Art and theRight to the Surface: For a Semiotic, Cultural and Legal Approach to UrbanSurfaces and Inscriptions” – to be published by Routledge in 2023.
Sabina’s work includes modules on thehistory of London architecture, representations of architecture and cities, neoliberalurbanism and city cultures, crime in cities, and graffiti, spatial justice andthe image of the city. She was a UCL Grand Challenges grantee and organiser ofthe international Graffiti Sessions conference in 2014, as well as a BritishCouncil fellow at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016. She is therecipient of the 2020 Prosser award for outstanding work in visualmethodologies, awarded by the International Visual Sociology Association.


My principal areas of
research and expertise are around urban public cultures in the neoliberal city,
and methods based on visual, semiotic and legal analyses:
- Urban semiotics, geosemiotics, surface
semiotics: written and visual communication in urban space and the role of
visual culture in the development of urban identities
- Legal geography and neoliberal urbanism:
property regimes in cities, the privatisation of public space, architecture and
the lawscape; designing out crime; order and
transgression; urban criminology; the creative city and cultural consumption.
- The right to the city and spatial justice:
theories of space and spatial justice; post-Lefebvrian proposals for the right
to the city in a global context; spatial commons and activism; public protests
and cultures of dissent.
- Graffiti, street art and public art: the history of sanctioned and unsanctioned surface marking; vandalism and writing on walls; transgressive subcultures and their appropriations.
2021-22 teaching:
Representations of Cities, MA Architectural History
Insurgent cities, MArch Year 4 Advanced Architectural Studies
Surface city, BSc Architecture Year 3 Dissertation
Architectural representations, BSc Architecture Year 2 History and Theory
Architecture Research II, BSc Architecture and Interdisciplinary Studies Year 2
01-SEP-2018 – 25-MAR-2021 | Senior Lecturer | School of Architecture | Ravensbourne University London, United Kingdom |
01-OCT-2017 | Lecturer (Teaching) | Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL, United Kingdom |
01-OCT-2015 – 01-OCT-2018 | Postgraduate Teaching Assistant in Architectural History | Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL, United Kingdom |
01-OCT-2015 – 11-JUL-2020 | Senior Lecturer | School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering | University of East London, United Kingdom |
01-OCT-2015 – 01-OCT-2017 | Teaching Assistant in the History of London Architecture | School of History | Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom |
2018 | Doctorat | University College London | |
2011 | Master of Arts (Hons) | Manchester Metropolitan University | |
2010 | Master of Arts | Universitatea Babes - Bolyai, Cluj - Napoca | |
2008 | Bachelor of Arts | Universitatea Babes - Bolyai, Cluj - Napoca |