Through Bodies and Buildings
Architecture of Gender and Sexual Dissidence Published by Set Margins’ publications.
Edited by Juan Barcia Mas, He Shen. Text by Sydney Calkin, Lisa Maillard, Candela Capitán, Lucía Cavallero, Feel Good Cooperative, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen, Jack Halberstam, He Shen, Orkun Kasap, Silke Langenberg, Janus Lafontaine Caboni, Chus Martínez, et al. How gender nonconformity and the queer body disrupt conventions of architectural space In the spirit of Cruising Diaries (Set Margins', 2025) or Cruising Pavilion (Spector, 2026), Through Bodies and Buildings examines architecture as a spatial apparatus that organizes bodies, regulates desire and structures collective life, while testing how gender nonconforming and sexually dissident bodies challenge and transform these regimes. Authors including Jack Halberstam, Tavia Nyong'o, Damon Ross Young and Chus Martínez discuss spaces such as movie theaters, tearooms, tunnels and abortion clinics through the lenses of queer theory and postmodernism. By placing artistic, architectural and theoretical positions in dialogue through essays, artistic contributions and archival material, Through Bodies and Buildings proposes a theory-practice framework in which gender and sexual dissent are thought of as a spatial method.
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