Trans-bodies/queering spaces
By: issue's editors, Dirk van den Heuvel, Robert Alexander Gorny
Series: Footprint : Delft architecture theory journal -- 21, volume 11, number 2; Footprint -- 21.
Publisher: JAP SAM Books; TU Delft
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Heyningen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9789490322922
Subjects: Modern Architecture; Social aspects; Queer theory
Description: This issue of 'Footprint' aims to introduce the latest developments in the field of queer theory into the realm of architecture and urban design, and vice versa, to make architectural and urban design concerns an element of queer studies. Next to uncovering hitherto hidden or repressed histories and practices as part of an agenda of inclusiveness, we consider an introduction of queer theory to architecture as engendering a radical reconceptualisation of the architectural discipline: that is, to upset and replace any conception of architecture as an embodiment of essentialist identities, forms or types, in order to move towards an understanding of architecture as a practice engaged in consistent transformation. Such a reconceptualisation of architecture views difference in terms of process, foregrounds liminal situations, their metamorphosis and transgression.

This issue of 'Footprint' aims to introduce the latest developments in the field of queer theory into the realm of architecture and urban design ? and vice versa, to make architectural and urban design concerns an element of queer studies. Next to uncovering hitherto hidden or repressed histories and practices as part of an agenda of inclusiveness, we consider an introduction of queer theory to architecture as engendering a radical reconceptualisation of the architectural discipline: That is, to upset and replace any conception of architecture as an embodiment of essentialist identities, forms or types, in order to move towards an understanding of architecture as a practice engaged in consistent transformation. Such a reconceptualisation of architecture views difference in terms of process, foregrounds liminal situations, their metamorphosis and transgression.
Notes: Cover title.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: New figurations in architecture theory : from queer performance to becoming trans  -- Dirk van den Heuvel & Robert Alexander Gorny; title: Opening up bodyspace : perspectives from posthuman and feminist theory  -- Xenia Kokoula; title: A surgery issue : cutting through the architectural fabric  -- Athina Angelopoulou; title: Trans-architecture  -- Tim Gough; title: Louis H. Sullivan : that object he became  -- Daniel Snyder -- Positions.; title: Me as a building  -- Andreas Angelidakis; title: Strategies for living in houses  -- Colin Ripley; title: Stalled! transforming public restrooms  -- Joel Sanders -- Interview.; title: Between Delft and Stockholm : interview -- with Brady Burroughs, Katarina Bonnevier, Katja Grillner, and Hélène Frichot.