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Buch, Englisch, 110 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Thibodeaux

Deviant Space

Abjection, Failure, and Appropriation as Architectural Practice
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-03143-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Abjection, Failure, and Appropriation as Architectural Practice

Buch, Englisch, 110 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

ISBN: 978-1-041-03143-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd


Deviant Space: Abjection, Failure, and Appropriation as Architectural Practice frames architecture as a fragile Symbolic construct, susceptible to appropriation, disruption, and reorientation by deviant bodies. Anchored in phenomenology and queer theory, it examines how spatial practices subvert architectural function, with particular focus on the tactics of men who have sex with men (MSM) in major North American cities during the AIDS epidemic.

The book offers a theoretical and contextual framework for reading architecture as both a mechanism of control and a site of resistance. Through the lenses of abjection and failure, borrowed from psychoanalytic and sociological theory, it outlines a methodology for analyzing spatial tactics like passing, outing, and flagging as examples of how deviant users navigate and respond to the built environment.

Its two-part structure—first philosophical, then historical—moves from broad, translatable phenomena to their tangible manifestations in context. The first offers architects and scholars of environmental design a reframing of the production of space, while the second offers theorists of phenomenology and queer studies new spatial dimensions for precedent theory. Deviant Space speaks to those invested in understanding architecture not as fixed form, but as dynamic terrain: unstable, coded, and open to appropriation.

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Zielgruppe


Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced


Autoren/Hrsg.


Weitere Infos & Material


0. Trashcan Manifesto 1. Introduction 2. Thoughts on Abjection 3. Thoughts on Failure 4. Passing 5. Outing 6. Flagging 7. Bibliography


Adam Thibodeaux is an architect and educator whose teaching and research are centered on the uncovering, preservation, and reclamation of architecture that once sheltered populations marginalized by difference. His practice has focused primarily on buildings that once served as queer gathering spaces whose histories have been masked by a need to assimilate in urban conditions where they were once unwelcome. His work on this subject has included built works, public installations, writing, and grassroots activism. Adam is an NCARB-registered Architect and Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, holding a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin and a Post-Professional Master of Architecture from Yale University.



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