Through Bodies and Buildings: Architecture of Gender and Sexual Dissidence examines architecture as a spatial system that organises bodies, governs desire and shapes collective life.
About This Book
The book follows how gender non-conforming and sexually dissident bodies test those systems and remake them. Through essays, artworks and archival material, it puts art, architecture and theory into conversation.
Its central proposal is that gender and sexual dissent can work as a spatial method—one that exposes the limits of architectural convention and makes room for other ways of living, relating to one another and inhabiting space. Contributors include Jack Halberstam, Tavia Nyong'o, Chus Martínez, Reba Maybury and Silke Langenberg.
Key Features
- More than 25 contributors from art, architecture and theory, including Jack Halberstam and Tavia Nyong'o
- Combines essays, artists' contributions and archival material
- 102 duotone images
- Designed by Rietlanden Women's Office
- Sewn and glued softcover, printed in an edition of 2,000
What You'll Discover
- How buildings encode norms of gender and sexuality
- Ways dissident bodies resist and transform architectural space
- Queer and feminist approaches to spatial design
- Art and archival practices as tools for architectural critique
- Alternative models for living and inhabiting together
About the Editors
Juan Barcia Mas and He Shen co-edited the volume, bringing together more than 25 contributors from art, architecture and theory.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Dimensions: 165 × 235 mm
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789083657554
- Publisher: Set Margins
Perfect For: Architects and students of architectural theory, readers in queer and gender studies, and artists working with space and the body.