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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 addre

Queering Architecture

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 5/30/2024
      ISBN-13 9781350267084
      978-1350267084
      ISBN-10 1350267082
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 addre

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