1st Edition

Architectures of Care From the Intimate to the Common

Edited By Brittany Utting Copyright 2024
300 Pages 75 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 75 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 75 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Drawing from a diverse range of interdisciplinary voices, this book 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... Read more

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reclaiming the Standard of Care

Brittany Utting

 

PART I

Intimacy and Interdependence

1 Disabled Domesticities and the Politics of Bathrooms: Architectural Enactments of Interdependence

Ignacio G. Galán

2 Domesticity and the Architecture Film: Caring-With Architecture

Lilian Chee, with a photo essay by Ian Mun

3 Bedside Care: Nursing Practice in the Emergence of the Modern Hospital

Piergianna Mazzocca

4 Care as Infrastructure

Ani Liu in Conversation with Brittany Utting

 

PART II

Collective Power and Conflict

5 Detroit Industry and “The Mural”: Representing Labor and Reappropriating Care in the Museum and in the Union Hall

Jay Cephas

6 Aesthetics of Paradox: Hospitals for the United Mine Workers of America (1946・1958)

Joy Knoblauch

7 Commoning Practices as a Form of Care

Neeraj Bhatia

8 Caring to Act, Acting to Care: Unbuilding Whiteness in the Built Environment

Fabiola López-Durán and Adrienne Rooney

 

PART III

Landscapes of Repair

9 Care Manual: Caring Is What Caring Does

Hélène Frichot

10 Field Stations for a Future Climate: Architectures of Environmental Care

Daniel Jacobs and Brittany Utting

11 Floating University Berlin: A Natureculture Learning Site

Rosario Talevi and Gilly Karjevsky

12 Propping Up the Cloud

Elsa MH Mäki

Biography

Brittany Utting is an assistant professor of Architecture at Rice University and co-founder of the research and design collaborative HOME-OFFICE. Her work examines the relationship between architecture, collective life, and environmental care. She previously taught at the University of Michigan as the 2017-2018 Willard A. Oberdick Fellow. Utting is a registered architect in New York and practiced at Thomas Phifer and Partners as a project designer for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.