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Queering Architecture: Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies

Edited by Marko Jobst, Edited by Naomi Stead

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Queering Architecture explores what it means to â€œqueerâ€ 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 â€˜queerâ€™ â€“ celebrated for its elusive, slippery nature â€“ resists and attacks such order? The essays in this book explore this paradox from a diverse range of perspectives â€“ 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 â€˜queerâ€™ 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.