Queering Architecture: Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies

Queering Architecture challenges the methods and methodologies of architectural discourse and subverts disciplinary power structures, exploring the paradox of establishing 'queer methodologies in itself' through guerrilla tactics and interventions. It is essential reading for architects, designers, queer and LGBTQ+ theorists.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 30 May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Queering Architecture is a groundbreaking book that explores the intersection of queerness and architecture, challenging the methods and methodologies of architectural discourse and subverting disciplinary power structures. Architecture, as a discipline, profession, and applied practice, is inherently bound by its own conceptual framework of orderliness. However, how can we approach queering architectural discourse when the term "queer" itself resists and attacks such order? The essays in this book address this paradox from a diverse range of perspectives, including the mapping of queer theory in architecture, the challenges of queer architectural archives, and the non-Western linguistic challenges to the term queer. They also explore 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 also addresses the paradoxical nature of establishing "queer methodologies" in itself. It offers guerrilla tactics and interventions for the discipline alongside a developing theoretical framework, making it essential reading for architects, designers, queer and LGBTQ+ theorists, and anyone interested in the intersection of queerness and architecture.

Weight: 652g
Dimension: 157 x 234 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350267084