Arch+ Contemporary Feminist Spatial Practices maps the convergence of gender equality, anti-racism, anti-colonialism, and queer politics within architecture — arguing that the built environment is inseparable from the social injustices it can either entrench or dismantle.
About This Book
This publication, edited by the team behind ARCH+ — Germany's foremost journal of architectural discourse — takes as its starting point a deceptively simple question: how are forms of social injustice entangled across different spatial scales? What unfolds is a sustained argument that feminist spatial practice can no longer be reduced to gender parity in the profession. The struggle for equality in the built environment must be understood as inseparable from anti-racist, anti-colonial, and queer liberation movements. Architecture is positioned here not as a neutral technical discipline but as a political medium — one capable of advancing a transformative, ethically grounded idea of freedom. Essential reading for practitioners, educators, and researchers engaged with social justice in design.
Key Features
- 232 pages of critical essays, editorial argument, and spatial analysis spanning gender, race, and colonial politics in architecture
- Edited by ARCH+, Melissa Makele, Anh-Linh Ngo, Torsten Lange, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Daniela Ortiz dos Santos, and Gabrielle Schaad
- Published by Spector Books, 9783959057011
What You'll Discover
- How spatial injustice operates simultaneously across multiple scales — from the domestic interior to urban planning and global colonial geographies
- Why gender equality in the built environment cannot be pursued in isolation from anti-racist and anti-colonial movements
- The argument for architecture as a political medium capable of enacting a transformative ethics of fairness, not merely technical compliance
- How an expanding field of practitioners is reorienting architecture toward ecological sustainability and social responsibility as intertwined imperatives
About the Author
This volume is edited by the ARCH+ editorial collective alongside Melissa Makele, Anh-Linh Ngo, Torsten Lange, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Daniela Ortiz dos Santos, and Gabrielle Schaad. ARCH+ is Germany's leading magazine for critical discourse in architecture and urbanism.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 232
- Dimensions: 290 x 230 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783959057011
- Publisher: Spector Books
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and urbanists working at the intersection of social justice and the built environment, academics and students in gender studies, postcolonial theory, or architectural theory, and practitioners committed to ethically accountable design practice.