Summary: Architecture, Art and Psychoanalysis. A four part podcast recorded by Paul Mitchell at the Anna Freud Centre on Saturday 14th July 2012. This conference brought together practitioners and theorists from different fields to think about the emotional experience of architecture and architectural spaces. In home, theatre, church, museum, or transformations of space in contemporary art, architecture and mental space interact in ways that indicate the role of unconscious process in the built environment. Part 1: Projection, Space and Architecture Mark Cousins ABSTRACT Architecture, at least in its western form since the Renaissance, has been thought of as an art of projection. That is why drawing is thought to be central to architecture as the mediation between an 'idea' and an object in space. This is where psychoanalysis and its repetoire of concepts of projection and of introjection are particularly relevant. This paper seeks to outline the way in which psychoanalysis can understand space and spatial projection. Mark Cousins is a British cultural critic and architectural theorist. He is the Director of General Studies and Head of the Graduate Program in Histories and Theories at the Architectural Association, London. He is also Visiting Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, New York. He co-founded the London Consortium along with Paul Hirst, Colin MacCabe, and Richard Humphreys. He is the author of, among other things, a book on Michel Foucault, co-written with Athar Hussain (London: Macmillan, 1984).
