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

Promotional Information

Offers approaches to queering architecture by challenging methods and practices, across different spaces and modes of architectural discourse.

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.

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*

This collection of essays makes a significant contribution to the evolving discourse/methodology relating to queer space and queer architectural practice. It focuses on new critical and theoretical approaches, and brings to light a range of little known sites, interventions, and publications. I found the proposal very rich and challenging.

. . . Both the editors and the contributors are leading voices in the fields of criticism, pedagogy, and design practice with demonstrated track records in this area.

. . . moves the conversation about queer space/architecture forward while building on previous work.
*Alice T. Friedman, Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art; Professor of Art, Wellesley College, USA*

I am impressed by the range of approaches and case studies found here and I would have thought it would provide a thought-provoking stimulus to a wide range of academic and critical practice . . . It be might expected to quickly establish a position of some importance within this developing field.
. . . It does appear to be a key volume in relation to methods and methodologies.
. . . This is a lively and interesting range of approaches to the methodology of queer architecture.
*Professor Dominic Janes, School of Humanities, Keele University, UK*

This book will certainly contribute to research in the overlapping fields of queer theory and architecture. This is definitely an under-researched area and could easily benefit from such a collection.
*Jack Halberstam, Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality; Professor of English and Gender Studies, Columbia University, USA*