Queering Architecture - Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Marko Jobst, Naomi Stead
• Assisted by: Marko Jobst (Editor), Naomi Stead (Editor), Stead Naomi (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2024
• EAN: 9781350267084
• ISBN: 978-1-350-26708-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 232 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, Gay & Lesbian studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Theory of architecture, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics