Through Bodies and Buildings

Through Bodies and Buildings examines architecture as a spatial apparatus that organises bodies, regulates desire, and structures collective life, while exploring how gender non-conforming and sexually dissident bodies challenge and transform these regimes.

By placing artistic, architectural, and theoretical positions in dialogue through essays, artistic contributions, and archival material, the publication proposes a theory-practice framework in which gender and sexual dissent are thought of as a spatial method: a way of unsettling architectural grammars by exposing their limits and breaching their logics, and of opening spaces of subversive possibility in which other forms of life, relation, and inhabitation may begin to appear.

Edited by Juan Barcia Mas and He Shen 何珅
With contributions by Juan Barcia Mas, Sydney Calkin, Candela Capitán, Lucía Cavallero, Feel Good Cooperative, Fredi Fischli, Jack Halberstam, HE Shen 何珅, Orkun Kasap, Janus Lafontaine Carboni, Silke Langenberg, Lisa Maillard, Chus Martínez, Reba Maybury, Tavia Nyong’o, Niels Olsen, Freek Persyn, Marie-France Rafael, Niclas Riepshoff, Dean Sameshima, Su Chang, Nina Wakeford, Judith Welter, Francis Whorall-Campbell, Damon Ross Young, Xiang Zairong, and Bruno Zhu.