Title & Author:

Queering architecture : methods, practices, spaces, pedagogies / edited by Marko Jobst and Naomi Stead.

Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.
©2023

Description:

x, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On the uses of queer space thinking / Olivier Vallerand -- Fabulous façades / Ben Campkin and Lo Marshall -- Teacher/student : Queer practices to dismantle hierarchies in studio culture / A.L. Hu.
Introduction: Marko Jobst and Naomi Stead -- I: Methods -- On the uses of queer space thinking / Olivier Vallerand -- Queer encounters in the archives: misplaced love letters and autobiographical homes / Dirk van den Heuvel and Martin van Wijk -- Queering architectural history: anomalous histories and historiographies of the Baroque / Marko Jobst -- Notes from transient spaces, anachronic times: an architectural exercise / Ece Canli -- II: practices -- El Site: queer approximations on fragments and writing / Regner Ramos -- After the party with the lights on: a case study of queering architecture / Timothy Moore and Adam Nathaniel Furman -- Fabulous façades / Ben Campkin and Lo Marshall -- From STUD to stalled!: embodied identity through a queer lens, 1996-2021 / Joel Sanders -- III: spaces -- Architectures of darkness in Derek Jarman and Mark Bradford / Nicholas Gamso -- Queer space in a peripheral modernity / Sarah Nicholus -- Music as a site of transing / Simona Castricum -- Queer reading in queer lodgings / Naomi Stead -- IV: pedagogies -- [Spatial] pedagogic readings of queer theory: experimental realism and opportunities for teaching and learning / Gem Barton -- Teacher/student: queer practices to dismantle hierarchies in studio culture / A. L. Hu -- Taking architecture from behind / Colin Ripley.

Summary:

"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, slippery nature, resists and attacks such order? Divided into four subsections, the essays in this anthology each purse 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 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. Essential reading for architectural and queer theorists"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781350267046 hardcover
135026704X hardcover
9781350267084 paperback
1350267082 paperback
electronic book
9781350267053
electronic publication
9781350267060
9781350267077

Subject:

Homosexuality and architecture.
Architecture Philosophy.
Queer theory.
Homosexualité et architecture.
Architecture Philosophie.
Théorie queer.
architectural theory.
Queer art

Added entries:

Jobst, Marko, editor.
Stead, Naomi, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320449
Call No.: 320449
Copy: 1
Status: Available