2024-12-22T03:48:58-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150089655/unbuilding-gender Places Journal 2018-10-05T18:16:00-04:00 >2018-10-05T18:16:14-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/63/63d008704d79cab30c001bfb04474523.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Gordon Matta-Clark&rsquo;s inventive site-specific cuts into abandoned buildings demonstrated approaches to the concept of home and to the market system of real estate that were anarchistic, creatively destructive, and full of queer promise.</p></em><br /><br /><p>In "Unbuilding Gender," Jack Halberstam extends the ideas of unbuilding and creative destruction that characterize Gordon Matta-Clark's work to develop a queer concept of anarchitecture focused on the trans* body.&nbsp;</p> <p>Halberstam is the 2018 recipient of the Arcus/Places Prize for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment. The biennial prize is a unique collaboration&nbsp;between the Diversity Platforms Committee of the College of Environmental Design at University of California, Berkeley, and Places, supported&nbsp;by the college&rsquo;s Arcus Endowment.</p>