On Disjointed Bodies: Emergent spaces between the body and screen in pandemic-era architectural education

The paper explores the collapse of architectural space over the period of the pandemic, bringing together multiple fields of implication, from the virtual sites of education to a wider tradition of architectural thinking and making, opening to the wider perspective of academic life. The severance currently affecting our bodies in space and time is discussed in the paper through the lens of two key paths of architectural thought: a visual/representational one and an aural/experiential one. Theoretical investigation is combined with critical reflections on first responses to virtual teaching drawn from the experience of the authors and projects from their postgraduate students.