Queering Architecture: Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies

by Marko Jobst (Editor), Naomi Stead (Editor)

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9781350267084
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/30/2024
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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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

Editorial Reviews

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

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