About
About this site
As a part of a Yale Undergraduate Architecture Independent Study Project funded through the Kilborne Memorial Fellowship, this website serves as a repository of independent research, images, and documents on Bankside and Battersea Power Stations, amassed between January 2013 and February 2014. This site is intended to function as both a living document and a database, presenting both distinct narratives on the two power stations, as well as providing access to a curated selection of the primary and secondary sources used to construct those narratives. The goal of this project is to make transparent the process of research and synthesis, while allowing for a greater viewership than a conventional paper, hopefully encouraging a wider discourse about the ideas raised.
About the author
Sanjana Sharma is a senior at Yale University in the Design concentration of the Architecture Major. Over the summer of 2013, she independent research on power plant design and preservation of monumental structures through the Kilborne Memorial Fellowship. Previous to this research, Sanjana worked for MASS Design Group, an architecture firm based out of Boston, MA and Kigali, Rwanda that aims to combine the resources of architecture and healthcare in the developing world. Sanjana has also been a member of Yale Out of the Blue, Yale's Contemporary Co-Ed A Cappella group, for the past four years, serving as Assistant Musical Director, arranger, and solo coach. Upon graduating in May 2014, she will start work at the Yale Center for Engineering, Innovation, and Design, as a Design Fellow. For further information on this project, please contact:
sanjana (dot) sharma (at) yale (dot) edu.
Thanks
There are many people without whom this project would not have been possible: my thesis advisors, Elihu Rubin and Karla Britton, Yale Digital Humanities Librarian Peter Leonard, Bimal Mendis (Director of Undergraduate Studies, YSOA), as well as the libaries, archives, and community centers in London that graciously allowed me to analyse their collections. Additional thanks to Smita and Arun Sharma, Allison Bryant, Jordan Ascher and Robert Peck.