Step into my Queerhouse: Queering the Now/Future

Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2020The built environment reflects the major architecture of the dominant society, which is “territorial, apolitical, conservative of the status quo, and above all - normative.” This architecture of the everyday, of the celebrated, of the centered, claiming to be “neutral” and therefore representative of all bodies and ideas, in reality, represses the multiplicity of ways of being and becoming. What would the world look like if everyone had the agency, the space, and the empowerment to create their own architecture - redefining and reorienting their bodies and identities? How do these new bodies and identities rewrite the relationship with the built world? This thesis uses speculative fiction as a queer tactic to disorient and deconstruct the norm in architecture and therefore (re)construct queer architecture. New contour lines of deviation are created and pure lines of mutation emerge from the straight path. This deviation of a lesser line offers a place and a space of existence for those of disorientation