Kickstart this! Façadomy: a new journal that looks at gender and identity through architecture

2016-05-05T20:41:00-04:00

Façadomy is new publication that looks at contemporary identity through the lenses of art and architecture. Façadomy's inaugural issue, Gender Talents explores the landscape of self-determined gender. It builds off the work of progressive sexologist Esben Esther P. Benestad, who has observed seven distinct genders in their practice as a therapist in Norway. Three prominent voices in contemporary art and architecture reflect on these seven themes...

Conversations around gender and identity – long excluded from the "gentleman's profession" of architecture – are seeping more and more into architectural discourse.

For example, the AIA announced recently that they would cancel their conference in North Carolina because of the passage of HB2, a bill widely described as transphobic, exclusionary, and bigoted. And, while the number of women in architecture remains low (with a high dropout rate post-college), and the way female architects are treated remains poor (if not violent and illegal), at least the conversation seems to have picked up in recent years.

But there's so much more to be said about the relationship between architecture and identity-formation than can fit into a crisis management-oriented footnote. The built environment both mirrors societal norms about identity and reinforces them. It's the ground on which we learn, perform, enforce, resist, or trouble gender norms.

Enter Façadomy, a new publication that looks squarely a...

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Kickstart this! Façadomy: a new journal that looks at gender and identity through architecture