1st Edition

Instituting Worlds Architecture and Islands

Edited By Catharina Gabrielsson, Marko Jobst Copyright 2025
264 Pages 72 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 72 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 72 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Islands have a long history of appealing to the architectural imagination and have served as sites for architectural expressions of cultural specificity, cultural conquest, and cultural hybridisation over millennia. From offshore financial centres to immigrant detention camps, tourist havens to military bases, the architectures of islands concretise the forces at play in our contemporary,... Read more

Introduction
CATHARINA GABRIELSSON AND MARKO JOBST

1  Friday I’m in Love
CHRIS L. SMITH

2  Ghost Islands: Telling an Intertidal Coast
LILIAN CHEE AND ZI HAO WONG

3  Big House, Small State: Taiwan’s Architecture of Island Precarity
BRIAN MCGRATH AND CHENG- LUEN HSUEH

4  Of Land and Sea: Reclamation Infrastructures in Mumbai
DEEPA RAMASWAMY

5  Aluminum Architecture from the Caribbean
TAIT JOHNSON

6  Latent Histories of Manus Island
JENNIFER FERNG

7  Islands of Carcerality: Fluid Exceptionality Within Australia’s Detention Archipelago
MARK ROMEI

8  What Sticks: The Ambiguous Carcerality of Asinara
SABRINA PUDDU AND FRANCESCO ZUDDAS

9  Contact Zones: Walking Robben Island
KIM GURNEY

10  This Island Life: Provision Plots of the Plantationocene
HÉLÈNE FRICHOT

11  Out of Time: Lake Constant and Its Island
JANE RENDELL

12  Extraterritoriality and the Impact of Tourism Development in Eastern Indonesia
CAMPBELL DRAKE

13  Escape, Exile, Architecture: Confining Yassıada
BERNA GÖL

14  Fictioning Great War Island
MARKO JOBST

15  Flotsam: Retelling the Story The Huts That Jules Builds
JULIEANNA PRESTON

16  Scraps from the Wreckage: Remnants of Hashima Island
CARL LAVERY AND LEE HASSALL

17  "‘Insular Time, and "Something Most Profound'"
CATHARINA GABRIELSSON

Biography

Catharina Gabrielsson is Docent in Architecture and Associate Professor in Urban Theory and Design at the School of Architecture KTH, Stockholm. Her research centres on the relationship between architecture, art, and urban development, combining critical historiography with philosophy and artistic research. She is co-editor of Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present (2020), Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies (2017), and Deleuze and the City (2016).

Marko Jobst is Senior Lecturer at Leeds School of Architecture. He is the author of A Ficto-Historical Theory of the London Underground (2017) and co-editor of Architectural Affects After Deleuze and Guattari with Hélène Frichot (2021) and Queering Architecture: Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies with Naomi Stead (2023). His research interests include the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, affect and queer theories, and experimental modes of writing.