Queering Architecture

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This volume features contributions from significant voices in the field, renewing the conversation about the 'queer' in architecture and addressing the methodological and epistemological challenges it presents to architectural theory. Architecture, as a discipline and practice, is inherently tied to its own framework of orderliness, encompassing not just buildings but also thought, knowledge, conventions, governance, power hierarchies, and administrative systems. This raises the question: how can one approach queering architectural discourse when 'queer' itself, known for its elusive nature, resists such order? Divided into four subsections—methods, practices, spaces, and pedagogies—the essays explore various inquiries to further the queering of architecture. They reveal the paradoxical nature of this endeavor through diverse perspectives, addressing topics such as mapping queer theory in architecture, the challenges of queer architectural archives, and non-Western linguistic issues related to the term 'queer.' The anthology also engages with decolonial approaches to architecture through indigeneity and landscape. This work not only challenges normative methods in architectural discourse but also confronts the complexities of establishing 'queer' methodologies. It is essential reading for both architectural and queer theorists.