RESEARCH
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Dr. Graham Cairns has two primary areas of research:
Architecture as a Socio-Political Phenomenon | Architecture and Visual Culture
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Architecture - Socio-Political
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Architecture as Political Image.
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Investigations into the complex, polemic and, at times, manipulative use of architecture in historic and contemporary political communication.
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​​Design for a Complex World - Challenges in Practice and Eduction.
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This work cond=siders the social and environemntal implications and challenges facing designers of buildings, cities and landscapes from the postion of practitioner and eductor.
​​Reflections on Architecture - Socio-Cultural Tectonics in the 21st Century.
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Research into various politcal positions as they manifest themsleves in architecural and urban design. Considered from teh perspective of different generations of designers, theorists and social critics.
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​​Selected Publications.
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Reification and Representation - architecture as political image.
Author. Routledge, Taylor&Francis. ISBN 978-1-138-92741-4
Audience: Graduates
Reflections on Architecture – Social and Cultural Tectonics in the 21st Century.
Author / Co-Author. Routledge, Taylor&Francis. ISBN 978-1-4724-5608-3
Audience: Graduates
Design for a Complex World – challenges in practice and education.
Editor. Libri Publishing: Oxford ISBN 978-1-907471-65-0.
Audience: Graduate/Undergraduate
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​​Advertising and Commercial Architecture.
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This research investigates the concurrent development of promotional and architectural design techniques in the second half of the 20th century.
​​Film and the Moving Image.
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Examinations of the influence of the visual language if film in 20th century architectural design and theory.
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Technologies of Representation and Vision.
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Considerations of the role of ‘technologies of sight’ on the development of hostorical and contemporary architectural practice and theory.
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Architecture - Visual Culture
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​​Selected Publications.
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Visioning Technologies – the architectures of sight.
Editor. Ashgate, London. 2016 (forthcoming) ISBN 978-1-4724-5496-6
Audience: Graduates
The Architecture of the Screen: essays in cinematographic space.
Author. Intellect Books. Bristol. ISBN: 978-1-84150-711-8. 2013.
Audience: Graduate/Undergraduate
Deciphering Art, Architecture and Advertising: selling to the sophisticated consumer.
Author. Libri Publishings: London. 2010. ISBN 978-1-907471-15-5.
Audience: Graduate/Undergraduate
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