‘Unsorted’ represents the 2022-2023 Architectural History MA dissertations from graduating students at The Bartlett School of Architecture, serving as a reflection on transdisciplinary methodologies and perspectives within the practice of architectural history. By highlighting the idea of the ‘unsorted’, the publication calls into question the norms, criteria and power structures that have traditionally defined what counts as part of the architectural canon. It asks us to consider: What has been left out? Whose histories have been overlooked or excluded when we sort architecture into subjects, hierarchies, periods and canonical categories?
This collection of final dissertation extracts was assembled to accompany the symposium of the same name held in November 2023. This publication was conceived, designed and produced by students at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Visit ucl.ac.uk/architecture for more information.
