Architectures of Care: From the Intimate to the Common (edited by Brittany Utting, Routledge, 2024) explores how spaces of care shape our affective, material, and social forms—from the most intimate scale of the body to our planetary commons. Typical definitions of care center around the maintenance of a livable life, encompassing everything from shelter and welfare to health and safety. Architecture plays a fundamental role in these definitions, inscribed in institutional archetypes such as the home, the hospital, the school, and the nursery. However, these spaces often structure modes of care that prescribe gender roles, bodily norms, and labor practices. How can architecture instead engage with an expanded definition of care that questions such roles and norms, producing more hybrid entanglements between our bodies, our collective lives, and our environments? Exploring architecture through the lenses of gender and race studies, labor theory, and environmental justice, among many other themes, this book offers case studies that engage with the situated, embodied, and relational practices of care. 

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Editor: Brittany Utting

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Contributors: Neeraj Bhatia, Jay Cephas, Lilian Chee, Hélène Frichot, Ignacio G. Galán, Gilly Karjevsky, Daniel Jacobs, Joy Knoblauch, Ani Liu, Fabiola López-Durán, Elsa MH Mäki, Piergianna Mazzocca, Ian Mun, Adrienne Rooney, Rosario Talevi, and Brittany Utting

 

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

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