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Queering Architecture - Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies (Hardcover)
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Queering Architecture - Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies (Hardcover)
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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, 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.
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