Article

Stara, Alexandra (2013) 'Making Strange': The Photography of Steffi Klenz and Thomas Weinberger. History of Photography, 37(3), pp. 353-359. ISSN (print) 0308-7298

Stara, Alexandra (2012) Women are now on average more highly educated than men. The Architects' Journal, 235(1), pp. 30-31. ISSN (print) 0003-8466

Stara, Alexandra (2010) Planung fur Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve in Ost-London, Grossbritannien: architekt Peter Beard, London. Bauwelt, 43(10), p. 34. ISSN (print) 0005-6855

Stara, Alexandra (2009) The new Acropolis Museum. The Architectural Review, CCXXV(1348), pp. 24-26. ISSN (print) 0003-861X

Stara, Alexandra (2009) A journey elsewhere: in search of Steffi Klenz's Dagenham Heathway. London Independent Photography, Spring(12), pp. 24-25. ISSN (print) 1746-4153

Stara, Alexandra [Reviewer] (2008) Book Review of: Exit-architecture: design between war and peace by Stephan Truby, with forward by Heiner Muhlmann, translated by Robert Payne. The Architects' Journal, p. 53. ISSN (print) 0003-8466

Stara, Alexandra [Reviewer] (2008) Joseph and the amazing van Eyck. The Architects' Journal, 227(18), pp. 49-50. ISSN (print) 0003-8466

Daskalaki, Maria, Stara, Alexandra and Imas, Miguel (2008) The 'Parkour Organisation': inhabitation of corporate spaces. Culture and Organization, 14(1), pp. 49-64. ISSN (print) 1475-9551

Stara, Alexandra (2008) Architecture is no picture. KIOSK(2), pp. 56-59. ISSN (print) 1755-9626

Stara, Alexandra (2007) Madder Rose: Lynch Architects' east London gallery draws on the history of the type and the life of the street. Architecture Today, 175, pp. 40-49. ISSN (print) 0958-6407

Stara, Alexandra (2005) Re-membering. Scroope: Cambridge Architecture Journal, pp. 136-143. ISSN (print) 0966-1026

Stara, Alexandra (2003) London. AA Files, 49, pp. 14-19. ISSN (print) 0261-6823

Stara, Alexandra (2000) On the problem of history in the museum. Annals For Aesthetics, 39, pp. 163-174. ISSN (print) 1105-0462

Stara, Alexandra (1993) The museum as dialectics of distance. Scroope: Cambridge Architecture Journal(5), pp. 17-19. ISSN (print) 0966-1026

Book

Vesely, Dalibor, Stara, Alexandra [Editor] and Carl, Peter [Editor] (2023) The latent world of architecture : selected essays. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. 330p. ISBN 9781032223254

Benyei, Tamas and Stara, Alexandra, eds. (2014) The edges of trauma: explorations in visual art and literature. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 224p. ISBN 9781443853422

Stara, Alexandra (2013) The Museum of French Monuments 1795-1816: killing art to make history. Farnham, U.K. : Ashgate. 198p. (The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950) ISBN 9781409437994

Chaplin, Sarah [Editor] and Stara, Alexandra [Editor] (2009) Curating architecture and the city. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. 258p. (AHRA Critiques: Critical studies in architectural humanities) ISBN 9780415489836

Book Section

Stara, Alexandra (2023) 'The play's the thing' : on theatricality and modern public space. In: Landrum, Lisa and Ridgway, Sam, (eds.) Theatres of architectural imagination. Routledge. pp. 131-143. ISBN 9781032286112

Stara, Alexandra (2020) The depth between frames : architectural representation in two films by Elizabeth Price and Rut Blees Luxemburg. In: Troiani, Igea and Campbell, Hugh, (eds.) Architecture Filmmaking. Bristol, UK : Intellect Books. pp. 39-56. ISBN 9781783209941

Stara, Alexandra (2019) Architecture's ethical function: in defence of the architect's profession. In: Jones, Alan and Hyde, Rob, (eds.) Defining contemporary professionalism: for architects in practice and education. London, U.K. : RIBA Publishing. pp. 222-225. ISBN 9781859468470

Stara, Alexandra (2019) Nature and artifice : Nadav Kander's Yangtze, The Long River. In: Adler, Gerald and Guerci, Manolo, (eds.) Riverine : architecture and rivers. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. ISBN 9781138681750

Stara, Alexandra (2015) The Louvre Effect. In: Kristoffer, Arvidsson, (ed.) Skiascope 7: Art, Museum, Architecture. Gothenburg, Sweden : Gothenburg Museum of Art. pp. 50-87. (Skiascope: Annual Publication of the Gothenburg Museum of Art) ISBN 9789187968921

Stara, Alexandra (2015) Ghosts of place : displacement and identity in the work of Ori Gersht. In: Pultz Moslund, Sten , Ring Petersen, Anne and Schramm, Moritz, (eds.) The culture of migration: politics, aesthetics and histories. London, U.K. : I. B. Tauris. pp. 257-269. ISBN 9781784533106

Stara, Alexandra (2015) On mimesis and type in the work of Lynch Architects. In: Lynch Architects, (ed.) Mimesis: Lynch Architects. London, U.K. : Artifice Books on Architecture. pp. 23-70. ISBN 9781908967664

Stara, Alexandra (2015) Rehearsals. In: Stewart, Christopher and Teichmann, Esther, (eds.) Staging Disorder. London : Black Dog Publishing. pp. 14-16. ISBN 9781910433157

Benyei, Tamas and Stara, Alexandra (2014) Introduction: the arts of trauma. In: Benyei, Tamas and Stara, Alexandra, (eds.) The edges of trauma: explorations in visual art and literature. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 1-17. ISBN 9781443853422

Stara, Alexandra (2014) Traces of trauma: the photography of Ori Gersht. In: Benyei, Tamas and Stara, Alexandra, (eds.) The edges of trauma: explorations in visual art and literature. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 181-190. ISBN 9781443853422

Stara, Alexandra (2012) Architectural poetics in Alvaro Siza's Church of Santa Maria. In: Emmons, Paul , Lomholt, Jane and Hendrix, John, (eds.) The cultural role of architecture. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 123-131. ISBN 9780415783408

Stara, Alexandra (2012) National history as biography: Alexandre Lenoir's Museum of French Monuments. In: Hill, Kate, (ed.) Museums and biographies: stories, objects, identities. Woodbridge, U.K. : Boydell & Brewer. pp. 265-276. (Heritage Matters) ISBN 9781843837275

Stara, Alexandra (2010) Cultivating architects: the humanities in architectural education. In: Bandyopadhyay, Soumyen , Lomholt, Jane , Temple, Nicholas and Tobe, Renée, (eds.) The Humanities in Architectural Design: A contemporary and Historical Perspective. Oxford, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 28-35. ISBN 9780415551144

Chaplin, Sarah and Stara, Alexandra (2009) Introduction. In: Chaplin, Sarah and Stara, Alexandra, (eds.) Curating architecture and the city. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 1-5. (AHRA Critiques: Critical studies in architectural humanities) ISBN 9780415489836

Stara, Alexandra (2009) Urban fictions with the office for subversive architecture. In: Chaplin, Sarah and Stara, Alexandra, (eds.) Curating architecture and the city. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 233-245. (AHRA Critiques: Critical studies in architectural humanities) ISBN 9780415489836

Stara, Alexandra (2008) Office for subversive architecture (OSA). In: Smith, Deborah, (ed.) In the space of elsewhere. Kingston-upon-Thames, UK : Stanley Picker Gallery. pp. 35-38. ISBN 9780955474484

Conference or Workshop Item

Stara, Alexandra (2021) ‘The Play’s the Thing’: On theatricality and modern public space. In: Frascari Symposium V: Theatres of architectural imagination; 27-29 May 2021, Montréal and Manitoba [ONLINE]. (Unpublished)

Stara, Alexandra (2017) The radicality of mimesis : towards a proposition for contemporary architecture. In: Copycat. Dealing with Dangerous Mimesis; 23-25 Feb 2017, Weimar, Germany. (Unpublished)

Stara, Alexandra (2014) City and river in contemporary landscape photography. In: Riverine Conference 2014; 26-28 Jun 2014, Canterbury, U.K. (Unpublished)

Stara, Alexandra (2013) Beyond form: the relevance of the tectonic. In: Form Finding, Form Shaping, Designing Architecture; 10-11 Oct 2013, Mendrisio, Switzerland. (Unpublished)

Stara, Alexandra [Organizer of meeting], Luxemburg, Rut Blees [Speaker], Collins, Hannah [Speaker], McCarthy, Tom [Speaker] and Lynch, Patrick [Speaker] (2010) Photography as alternative urbanism. In: Photography as alternative urbanism; 10 Nov 2010, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Stara, Alexandra (2010) Making strange in urban landscape photography: the work of Steffi Klenz and Thomas Weinberger. In: Emerging Landscapes; 25 - 27 Jun 2010, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Stara, Alexandra (2010) Architectural poetics in Alvaro Siza's Parochial Centre of Marco de Canaveses. In: The Cultural Role of Architecture; 23 - 25 Jun 2010, Lincoln, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Stara, Alexandra (2010) Traces of trauma: the work of Ori Gersht. In: Exploring the Edge of Trauma; 13 - 16 May 2010, Chichester, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Stara, Alexandra (2009) Phenomenology as architectural praxis: two houses in East Anglia. In: Architecture + phenomenology; 26-29 Jun 2009, Kyoto, Japan. (Unpublished)

Stara, Alexandra (2008) Displacement as enchantment: the poetic potential of the museum. In: Location: the museum, the academy and the studio. 34th AAH Annual Conference; 2-4 Apr 2008, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Stara, Alexandra (2007) The revelatory frame: curating the city through art photography. In: Architecture, urbanism & curatorship: 4th annual AHRA international conference; 17 - 18 Nov 2007, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Stara, Alexandra (2007) Cultivating architects: the humanities in architectural education. In: The Role of the Humanities in Design Creativity; 15-16 Nov 2007, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Exhibition

Stara, Alexandra [Curator] (2009) Strange places: urban landscape photography. Strange places: urban landscape photography. , 30 Sep - 21 Nov 2009 , Kingston-upon-Thames, U.K..