A Queer Spatial Imaginary: Identity and Memory in Architecture

An exploration of constructed spaces of inclusion and institutional exclusion from a queer perspective. This work explores the representation of the queer body in various historically and epistemologically significant environments related to the queer experience and memory. The first half of the work primarily examines spaces of inclusion, expression, and liberation; whereas the second half of the work attempts to deconstruct myths of American exceptionalism and democratic romanticism in working through spaces tied to queer narratives and cultural attitudes emerging from the Lavender Scare Era.Bachelor of Art