Forthcoming:
‘Held in Common: Science Fiction and Collective Space’, Journal of Architecture, special issue on Co-Futures
Published:
‘Equally like a beginning and an end’: Edge-lands and threshold conditions
Brookes, A. V., (2024) “‘Equally like a beginning and an end’: Edge-lands and threshold conditions”, field9(1).
Geography, urban design and architecture
Brookes, A. V., (2024) ‘Geography, urban design and architecture’ in The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, Eds. Bould, M. Butler, A. M, and Vint, S. pp. 403 - 412
Made up Ground: Architecture, Science Fiction, and the Surface of Imagined Worlds
Butt, A (2023): Made up Ground: Architecture, Science Fiction, and the Surface of Imagined Worlds. Architecture and Culture
Navigating Beyond Gender: The City in Feminist Science Fiction
Beyond Gender (2023) ‘Navigating Beyond Gender: The City in Feminist Science Fiction’ in (Un)fair Cities. Equity, Ideology and Utopia in Urban Texts, Kelly, M. and Paz, M. pp.195 - 214
Collective Close Reading: Queer SF and the Methodology of the Many
Beyond Gender Research Collective (2023) ‘Collective Close Reading: Queer SF and the Methodology of the Many’ in Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction Eds. Yaszek, L., Fritzsche, S., Omry, K., & Pearson, W. G. pp. 41-48
“It was quiet”: The Radical Architectures of Understatement in Feminist SF’
Butt, A. (2022). ‘It was quiet’: the radical architectures of understatement in feminist science fiction. Cultural Geographies
Special issue: Geography and SF
Drowning in the Cloud: Water, the Digital and the Queer Potential of Feminist Science Fiction
Beyond Gender Research Collective (2022) Drowning in the Cloud: Water, the Digital and the Queer Potential of Feminist Science Fiction. In: Vint S and Buran S (eds) Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 197–222.
‘A future collectively salvaged from the rubble’
Beyond Gender (2021) The Architectural Review
125th Birthday Issue - ‘Where do we go from here?’
“As Plain as Spilt Salt”: The City as Social Structure in The Dispossessed
Butt A., (2021) ‘“As Plain as Spilt Salt”: The City as Social Structure in The Dispossessed’, Textual Practice.
The Present as Past: Science Fiction and the Museum
Butt A., (2021) “The Present as Past: Science Fiction and the Museum”, Open Library of Humanities 7(1).
Special issue on Museum Engagement as Speculative Design
‘Crowding the Stoop’: Climbing the Mega-Structures of Science Fiction
Butt A. (2021) ‘Crowding the Stoop’: Climbing the Mega-Structures of Science Fiction. In: Beattie M., Kakalis C., Ozga-Lawn M. (eds) Mountains and Megastructures. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.
‘Future Impermanent’
(2021) Wimbledon Space
The Unbuilding Complete: Review of Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture
Butt A. (2020) The Unbuilding Complete: Review of Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture edited by Attlee, Harper, and Smith, Ancillary Review of Books
‘Only one way in and one way out’: Staging Utopian Spaces
Butt A. (2019) Studies in Arts and Humanities, 05: 01, pp. 5 - 23
Special Issue: Utopian Acts
‘City Limits: Boundary Conditions and the Building-Cities of Science Fiction’
(2018) Open Library of the Humanities, 4(2): 4, pp. 1–31
Special Issue Series: ‘Imaginaries of the Future
‘Endless forms, vistas and hues’: Why Architects Should Read Science Fiction
(2018) ARQ Architectural Research Quarterly
Narrative Arcs
Butt, A. and Roberts, D. Narrative Arcs (2018) In Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London.Eds. Duman, A., Hancox, D., James, M., and Minton, A.
Editorial: On Concrete Utopias
(2017) Concrete Utopias: An Education in Desire, Eds. Butt, A & Coleman, N., Imaginaries of the Future
Vicarious Vertigo: The Emotional Experience of Height in the Science Fiction City
(2018) Emotion, Space and Society – Special Issue: ‘Vertigo in the City’
‘Utopian Acts’
Conference report on Utopian Acts (2019) Fantastika, Volume 3, Issue 1 pp.113-116.
‘Science Fiction Aesthetics’
(2017) Drawing Matter ‘Line of Enquiry’, including material from conference paper: ‘Science Fiction Aesthetics: Tensions between Reality and the Radical,’ Fantasy in Reality, Courtauld Institute of Art
Reflections on Dystopia Now
(2017) Centre for Contemporary Literature Birkbeck Blog, June 4, including material from conference paper: 'Aerial Perspective: Estrangement and Vertical Urbanism', Dystopia Now, Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Literature
Dissolving the Boundaries in SF:
A Report on the “Organic Systems: Environments, Bodies and Cultures in Science Fiction” LSFRC symposium
(2017) SFRA (Science Fiction Research Association) Review, Fall 2017, issue 322. pp.4-6. including material from conference paper: 'The Built Environment: SF and the Construction of Enclosure', Organic Systems: Environments, Bodies and Cultures in Science Fiction.
Between the Image and the Building: An Architectural Tour of High-Rise’
(2016) Critical Quarterly, Volume 58, Issue 1, pp. 76–83
‘Ritterman Pocket User Guide’
(2016) bpr architects
‘Control Towers: Life and Limitations in The World Inside’
(2015) Low-Res: Architectural theory, Politics and Criticism, Pilot Issue ‘High-Rise’, pp. 134-144
‘City Limits: Social Structures in the Building-Cities of Science Fiction’
(2015) Vertigo in the City: Conversations between the Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Eds. Deriu, D. and Kane, J.
‘The Possibility of Failure: Chasing Utopia’
Butt, A. and Knox-Williams, C., (2015) Alter Periodical, Spring 2015, Volume 2
‘Utopographies: Evaluation, Consensus and Location’
Belli, J., Brady, F., Butt, A., Coleman, N., Carlyle, A., Desseault, A., Doing, K., Dorrian, E., Jukes, H., Knox-Williams, C., Oosthuizen, M., Regina, B., Kobata, K., Niitsu, A., Smith, D., Stock, A., and Tarka, S., (2014) Critical Practice, University of the Arts London
‘Utopographies: Evaluation, Consensus and Location: Experts From Beyond (A Script) FYP-PS-06’
Dorrian, E., Contributors: Butt, A., Cummings, N., Dorrian, E., Knox-Williams, C., and Smith, D., (2014) Five Years Publication, Public Series no. 6
‘Building Brave New Worlds: The Architecture of Sci-fi Movies'
Ramchurn, R. (2014) Architects’ Journal, December 3, covering work as presented in: 'Block Capitals: From the High-Rise to the Vertical City', Building Brave New Worlds: The Architecture of Sci-fi Movies, British Film Institute and Design Council, BFI
