Queering Architecture explores what it means to “queer” architecture, challenging the methods and methodologies of architectural discourse and subverting disciplinary power structures.
Architecture as a discipline, a profession and an applied practice, is always subordinate to its own conceptual framework of orderliness. How, then, can we look at queering architectural discourse when the very term ‘queer’ – celebrated for its elusive, slippery nature – resists and attacks such order?
The essays in this book explore this paradox from a diverse range of perspectives – from the questions of mapping queer theory in architecture; to the issues of queer architectural archives, or lack thereof; to the non-Western linguistic challenges to the very term queer alongside decolonial approaches to architecture via indigeneity and landscape.
Queering Architecture not only provides a bold challenge to the normative methods employed in architectural discourse but addresses the paradoxical nature of establishing ‘queer’ methodologies in itself.
Offering guerrilla tactics and interventions for the discipline alongside a developing theoretical framework, it is essential reading for architects, designers, queer and LGBTQ+ theorists alike.
Edited by:
Marko Jobst,
Naomi Stead
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: NIP
Dimensions:
Height: 232mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 640g
ISBN: 9781350267084
ISBN 10: 1350267082
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 30 May 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Figures Contributors 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 Index
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.
Reviews for Queering Architecture: Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies
We are in a renaissance of queer methods, surveying mis/alignments between slippery queerness and orderly methods. From physical places to digital spaces, the contributors of this multivalent, delightfully unruly volume amplify the unique voices of architectural disciplines. * Amin Ghaziani, Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair in Urban Sexualities, University of British Columbia, Canada *
