Brady Burroughs: Architectural Flirtations
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Keyword: design research, queer, feminist, critical theory, critique, Camp, performativity, experimental writing, critical fiction, Aldo Rossi
Subtitle: A Love Storey Size: 170 x 240 mm Pages: 512 Format: softcover Language: English Illustration: 150 graphic plates (43 color) Book design: Brady Burroughs, Andrejs Ljunggren Printing: Printfabriken Publisher: ArkDes Pub Year: 2016 Weight: 985 gr ISBN 13: 9789187447075Description
Article no.: 9789187447075
Formulated as a feminist project, written as a pulp fiction
Brady Burroughs' PhD Dissertation aims to displace the culture of critique, by questioning and undermining relationships of power and privilege through practices that are explicitly critical, queer feminist, and Campy.
From the publisher:
”Architectural Flirtations: A Love Storey” is written as an architectural pulp fiction (in the guise of several alter egos) and focuses on design education in intersections of gender, race and sexuality. This queer-feminist work explores improper and unserious practices, to unsettle habitual modes of criticism and relocate and reimagine a serious and privileged discipline.
All of the (love) storeys take place on March 21st, the spring equinox, in and around a 1977 row house project called Case Unifamiliari in Mozzo, Italy, designed by Aldo Rossi and Attilio Pizzigoni. Beda Ring, PhD researcher, constructs a Campy renovation of one of these row houses, full of theatricality, humor, and significant otherness; while architectural pedagogue, Brady Burroughs, guides a student group from KTH in an Architecture and Gender course; and Henri T. Beall, practicing architect, attends to the details upstairs.
Brady Burroughs is an architect, teacher and researcher interested in questions of positioning and power, experimental pedagogical practices, and making critical ideas accessible beyond academic circles. Currently works as Head of Second Year at KTH School of Architecture, where she holds a PhD in Critical Studies of Architecture.