Architectures of Refusal

Jill Stoner is currently Director of the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada, and Professor Emerita of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania (1979) and a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature from New College in Sarasota, Florida (1975). Her professional practice earned her architectural firm numerous design awards, including first-place honors in two international urban competitions, and two AIA awards for school renovations. Stoner is recognized internationally for her contributions to architectural theory. She has lectured throughout the US and in Italy, Argentina, Denmark, the UK and Canada on spatial references and resonances in contemporary fiction and poetry, the concept of urban wilderness, global issues of space as an instrument of aggression, and the untapped potential of vacancy in the American post-recession landscape. Her first book, Poems for Architects (William Stout Publishers 2001) traces the spatial politics of the 20th century through an anthology of modern poems. Her second book, Toward a Minor Architecture (MIT Press 2012), proposes a more politicized agenda for architecture in the 21st century.

Introduction Repair, Reworld: The Many Ways of Saying 'No' Chapter 2 Prologue: Drawing an Argument for Refusal Chapter 3 Centring Civilisation: Now and After the Apocalypse Chapter 4 Digital Doubles: The Major Agency of Minor Bits Chapter 5 Expanding Bodies: Pedagogical Models for Pluralistic Spatialities Chapter 6 Shebeen Operations: Navigating Deviance Chapter 7 Earth Versus FIFA: Resisting Globalisation on the Open Pitch Chapter 8 A Cottage to Breathe In: Refusing Museums, Making Homes Chapter 9 A Space of Problems: The Child-Cities of Columbus Chapter 10 Reclaiming Their Future: Riotous Resistance and Indigenous Creativity in South America's Highest Metropolis Chapter 11 The Eruv as Legal Fiction: Changing Rules in the Public Realm Chapter 12 From Altars to Alterity: Offerings and Inheritances for Queer Vietnamese Kin Chapter 13 101 Ways to Refuse a Wall Chapter 14 Meanwhile Bodies: Architecture Without Property Chapter 15 To Not Refuse Our Ravaged World Chapter 16 From Another Perspective - Balking in the Balkans: Lebbeus Woods - Zagreb Free Zone Revisited Contributors About Architectural Design