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- Senior Lecturer
- The Bartlett School of Architecture
- Faculty of the Built Environment
Nina Vollenbröker holds a Diploma in Architecture as well as an
MSc and a PhD in Architectural History and Theory from the Bartlett School of
Architecture, UCL. She is a registered architect and worked in a London design
studio for several years. Nina has been a member of the Bartlett's History and
Theory team since 2004 and balances her academic responsibilities with
independent photographic practice.
Nina's monograph Home on the Range: Gender, Space and Belonging in the
American West, will be published by
Routledge later this year. Nina has
contributed essays to Borderlands in World History, 1700-1914, eds. Chad
Bryant, Paul Readman (Palgrave, 2014) and to Sacred Mobilities, ed. Tim Gale, Avril Maddrell, Alan
Terry, (Ashgate, 2015). She has disseminated her research at academic
conferences in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and the USA, through journals (Ground Up, 2012; Architectural Design, 2005) and
other platforms (including London-based arts radio Resonance fm and The
American Museum in Britain). Her photographic work has been exhibited
internationally.
Nina Vollenbröker’s research focuses on matters of domesticity and rootedness on one hand and on mobility and the transgression of spatial boundaries on the other. It investigates the role of movement, shift and change in stable spatial, cultural and political concepts by highlighting that – and considering how – these are created, enacted, questioned and revised by ongoing spatial practice.
Nina has experience with the interpretation of a wide range of historic sources. She has worked extensively with nineteenth-century manuscript diaries, quilts and photographs at renowned American archives such as the Henry E. Huntington Library, California; The Beinecke Library at Yale University, Connecticut, the Bancroft Library at The University of California at Berkeley, and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Nina has received seed funding from The British Academy and presented her research internationally (including Columbia University, New York,; The Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Germany and The University of Notre Dame, Indiana). Her work recently won the Pioneer America Society’s Wilhelm Award for outstanding research in the field of material cultures studies.
Nina Vollenbröker is a senior lecturer at the Bartlett. She is the programme coordinator of MPhil/PhD Architectural Design and the MPhil/Phd Architectural History and Theory. In addition, Nina coordinates the two undergraduate Architectural History and Theory programme and supervises MArch theses.
Nina’s teaching at UCL is informed by her research and she focuses on a range of topics including spaces of identity, home as mobile practice and the architectural grand tour. She aims to introduce her students to research methods and types of evidence which are less commonly used by architects, such as archival work and the interpretation of everyday domestic objects and personal texts.
2005 | Master of Architecture | University College London | |
2004 | Certificate | University College London | |
2002 | Master of Science | University College London | |
2001 | Diploma | University College London | |
1997 | Bachelor of Architecture | Oxford Brookes University |