Queering Architecture

Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-26704-6 (ISBN)

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Featuring contributions from a range of significant voices in the field, this volume renews the conversation around what it means to speak of the ‘queer’ in the context of architecture, and offers a fresh take on the methodological and epistemological challenges this poses to the discipline of architectural theory.

Architecture as a discipline, a profession and an applied practice is always subordinate to its own conceptual framework, which is one of orderliness. It refers to buildings, but also to infrastructures of thought and knowledge, to conventions and taxonomies, to structures of governance, hierarchies of power and systems of administration. How, then, can one look at queering architectural discourse when the very term ‘queer’, celebrated for its elusive nature, resists and attacks such order?

Divided into four subsections, the essays in this anthology each pursue a distinct line of inquiry – methods, practices, spaces and pedagogies – in order to help particularize the proposed queering of architecture. They demonstrate the paradoxical nature of the endeavour from a diverse range of perspectives – from questions of mapping queer theory in architecture; to issues of queer architectural archives, or lack thereof; to non-Western challenges to the very term queer, and the queering of basic assumptions across affiliated disciplines.

Queering Architecture not only provides a bold challenge to the normative methods employed in architectural discourse but also addresses how establishing ‘queer’ methodologies is a paradox in itself.

Marko Jobst is an independent lecturer and researcher based in Scotland. He has taught at a number of schools of architecture in London, most prominently as Architecture Undergraduate Theory Coordinator at the University of Greenwich. Naomi Stead is Professor of Architecture and Director of the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT, Australia.

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Introduction - Marko Jobst and Naomi Stead

I: Methods
1. On the Uses of Queer Space Thinking - Olivier Vallerand
2. Queer Encounters in the Archive: Misplaced Love Letters and Autobiographical Homes - Dirk van den Heuvel and Martin van Wijk
3. Queering Architectural History: Anomalous histories and historiographies of the Baroque - Marko Jobst
4. Notes From Transient Spaces, Anachronic Times: An architectural exercise - Ece Canli

II: Practices
5. El Site: Queer approximations on fragments and writing - Regner Ramos
6. After the party with the lights on: A case study of queering architecture - Timothy Moore and Adam Nathaniel Furman
7. Fabulous Façades - Ben Campkin and Lo Marshall
8. From STUD to Stalled!: Embodied identity through a queer lens 1996-2021 - Joel Sanders

III: Spaces
9. Architectures of Darkness in Derek Jarman and Mark Bradford - Nicholas Gamso
10. Queer Space in a Peripheral Modernity - Sarah Nicholus
11. Music as a Site of Transing - Simona Castricum
12. Queer Spaces, Queer Readings, Queer Lodgings - Naomi Stead

IV: Pedagogies
13. [Spatial] Pedagogic readings of Queer Theory: Experimental Realism and opportunities for teaching and learning - Gem Barton
14. Teacher/student: Queer practices to dismantle hierarchies in studio culture - A.L. Hu
15. Taking Architecture from Behind - Colin Ripley

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Erscheinungsdatum	13.02.2023
Zusatzinfo	47 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-350-26704-X / 135026704X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-26704-6 / 9781350267046
Zustand	Neuware