Transgender Architectonics: The Shape of Change in Modernist Space

Author:   Lucas Crawford
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367597344


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Lucas Crawford
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9780367597344


ISBN 10:   0367597349
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Foundations and ruins: why don’t transgender and architecture get along?; How to beat a straight flush: DS+R’s Brasserie and the rhetoric of transgender ‘plumbing’; ‘The ladies lavatory’: Woolf and the transgender biographical imperative; Woolf’s Einfühlung: an alternative theory of transgender affect, space, and time; ‘I’ll call him Mahood instead, I prefer that, I’m queer’: Samuel Beckett’s spatial aesthetic of name change; Against transgender integrity: Beckett’s grey matter; Epilogue: a transgender poetics of the High Line park

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'Given that transgender bodies (like all bodies, though often in less naturalized and more exoticized ways) are built environments, it's shocking that architectural theory has not grappled with transgender embodiment in a sustained way until now. Lucas Crawford fills a gap in the literature so big that it was hard to see. A fun and fascinating read.' Susan Stryker, University of Arizona, USA 'It takes an original thinker to place Diller and Scofidio's High Line alongside Samuel Beckett and Virginia Woolf's experimental prose in the service of transgender theory and practice. By reading literature and architecture together, Lucas Crawford crafts a bold and brilliant vision for trans spaces in which all bodies and genders can flourish. I want to live in this book's world.' Ann Cvetkovich, Cornell University, USA 'Architectural theory is transitioning! Lucas Crawford uses architecture as a critical model to rethink transgender embodiment and then uses transgender politics as a deconstructive method to unsettle conventional views on architecture. A breakthrough both for gender studies and architectural theory.' Paul B. Preciado, University of Paris VIII, France and The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain


’Given that transgender bodies (like all bodies, though often in less naturalized and more exoticized ways) are built environments, it's shocking that architectural theory has not grappled with transgender embodiment in a sustained way until now. Lucas Crawford fills a gap in the literature so big that it was hard to see. A fun and fascinating read.’ Susan Stryker, University of Arizona, USA ’It takes an original thinker to place Diller and Scofidio's High Line alongside Samuel Beckett and Virginia Woolf's experimental prose in the service of transgender theory and practice. By reading literature and architecture together, Lucas Crawford crafts a bold and brilliant vision for trans spaces in which all bodies and genders can flourish. I want to live in this book's world.’ Ann Cvetkovich, Cornell University, USA ’Architectural theory is transitioning! Lucas Crawford uses architecture as a critical model to rethink transgender embodiment and then uses transgender politics as a deconstructive method to unsettle conventional views on architecture. A breakthrough both for gender studies and architectural theory.’ Paul B. Preciado, University of Paris VIII, France and The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain


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Lucas Crawford is Ruth Wynn Woodward Junior Chair in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

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