Architectures of Refusal

Jill Stoner, Ozayr Saloojee

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781119833963
• eBook ISBN: 9781119833970
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: History of Architecture

Guest-edited by Jill Stoner and Ozayr Saloojee

Over the past decade, and in a more concentrated form over the past two years, there has been increasing recognition of architecture's systemic complicity in constructing and upholding hierarchies of race and class, and privileging colonial paradigms that perpetuate spatial and economic inequity. This AD issue reveals how designers, practitioners, scholars and architects are participating in dismantling the major canons of Western architecture. The work is both literal and figural: taking buildings apart and reconstituting them, and challenging mythologies that include drawing-as-analogue, building-as object, architect-as-hero and nature-as-other.

Architecture has both potential and responsibility for political agency in the public realm.The contributions to this issue foreground emancipatory spatial ideas and practices from around the world, demonstrating that refusal is no longer just absence and denial, but a constructive mode of resistance and action that needs to be approached through subversive urban works, design pedagogy and alliances across multiple disciplines.

Contributors: Piper Bernbaum, Carwil Bjork-James, Thiresh Govender, Lucia Jalón Oyarzun, Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers, Cong Chi Nguyen, Quilian Riano, Hannah Le Roux, Alberto de Salvatierra, Cathy Smith, Chat Travieso, and Ilze Wolff.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Guest-Editors
• Introduction: Repair, Reworld The Many Ways of Saying ‘No’
• Prologue Drawing an Argument for Refusal
• Centring Civilisation Now and After the Apocalypse
• Digital Doubles The Major Agency of Minor Bits
• Expanding Bodies Pedagogical Models for Pluralistic Spatialities
• Shebeen Operations Navigating Deviance
• Earth Versus FIFA Resisting Globalisation on the Open Pitch
• A Cottage to Breathe In Refusing Museums, Making Homes
• A Space of Problems The Child-Cities of Columbus
• Reclaiming Their Future Riotous Resistance and Indigenous Creativity in South America’s Highest Metropolis
• The Eruv as Legal Fiction: Changing Rules in the Public Realm
• From Altars to Alterity: Offerings and Inheritances for Queer Vietnamese Kin
• 101 Ways to Refusea Wall
• Meanwhile Bodies Architecture Without Property
• To Not Refuse Our Ravaged World
• Balking in the Balkans Lebbeus Woods – Zagreb Free Zone Revisited
• Contributors
• What is Architectural Design?
• Architectural Design
• Forthcoming AD Titles
• EULA