Queering Architecture (eBook, PDF)

Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies
Redaktion: Jobst, Marko; Stead, Naomi

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350267053
• Artikelnr.: 66994006

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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