Architectures of Care

Drawing from a diverse range of interdisciplinary voices, this book explores how spaces of care shape our affective, material, and social forms, from the most intimate scale of the body to our planetary commons.

Brittany Utting is an assistant professor of Architecture at Rice University and co-founder of the research and design collaborative HOME-OFFICE. Her work examines the relationship between architecture, collective life, and environmental care. She previously taught at the University of Michigan as the 2017-2018 Willard A. Oberdick Fellow. Utting is a registered architect in New York and practiced at Thomas Phifer and Partners as a project designer for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgements Introduction: Reclaiming the Standard of Care Brittany Utting PART I: Intimacy and Interdependence 1. Disabled Domesticities and the Politics of Bathrooms: Architectural Enactments of Interdependence Ignacio G. Galán 2. Domesticity and the Architecture Film: Caring-With Architecture Lilian Chee, with a photo essay by Ian Mun 3. Bedside Care: Nursing Practice in the Emergence of the Modern Hospital Piergianna Mazzocca 4. Care as Infrastructure Ani Liu in Conversation with Brittany Utting PART II: Collective Power and Conflict 5. Detroit Industry and "The Mural": Representing Labor and Reappropriating Care in the Museum and in the Union Hall Jay Cephas 6. Aesthetics of Paradox: Hospitals for the United Mine Workers of America (1946-1958) Joy Knoblauch 7. Commoning Practices as a Form of Care Neeraj Bhatia 8. Caring to Act, Acting to Care: Unbuilding Whiteness in the Built Environment Fabiola López-Durán and Adrienne Rooney Part III: Landscapes of Repair 9. Care Manual: Caring Is What Caring Does Hélène Frichot 10. Field Stations for a Future Climate: Architectures of Environmental Care Daniel Jacobs and Brittany Utting 11. Floating University Berlin: A Natureculture Learning Site Rosario Talevi and Gilly Karjevsky 12. Propping Up the Cloud Elsa MH Mäki Index