The Avery Review
Embodiments
One of architecture’s most profound relationships—to bodies, real or imagined, individual or collective—is as intimate as it is turbulent. At times it is caring; often it is violent; sometimes it is precarious; other times it feels fixed. Certainly, this relationship (and its articulations within architectural criticism and historiography alike) has been too biased for too long. We do not feel the daily effects of architecture equally. Some bodies move through the built world with ease; others do not. The field of architecture has long embodied and enacted a set of norms that are too white, too able, too hetero, too patriarchal, too binary. The essays in this section are more wayward. They confront sites that actively produce, often just the idea of, certain subjects and certain citizens, and express other ways of being, knowing, and building the world anew.
Model Wombs, in the Avery Review 22 (March 2017).