Dismantling Architectural Fictions

Martina Diaz, Janus Lafontaine Carboni (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2025 | 100. Auflage
ETH Zurich Chair Arch. Heritage & Sustainability (Verlag)
978-3-907363-92-8 (ISBN)

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This text results from study and teaching activities aimed at conveying the urgency of understanding the intangible dynamics that continue to shape architectural studies within Eurocentric academic contexts. The authors seek to provide readers with a foundation for positioning themselves according to their perspectives and intentions. Presented in a condensed form, the contents also reflect ongoing discussions with students in the architectural design studio at the Chair of Architectural Heritage and Sustainability of ETH Zurich. Through this brief reading, we hope to encourage broader debates and inspire interest in dismantling imperialist and colonial frameworks in favor of a more critical and just pedagogy.

Martina Diaz is a researcher at ETH Zürich with a background in restoration studies. She completed her doctoral dissertation on construction history and is currently pursuing studies in Applied Information and Data Science. Since 2022, her research has pivoted toward anti-imperialist methodologies for knowledge restitution, and she has been actively involved in the Chair of Architectural Heritage and Sustainability at ETH Zurich, where she develops teaching materials and research contents. Her work bridges technological tools with theoretical archival approaches, emphasizing intersectional sustainability and the decolonization of architectural knowledge at the core of the chair’s activities. She is also deepening her expertise in applied information and data science, while working on digital infrastructures for architecture research contents in different teams.

Janus Lafontaine Carboni is an architect, educator, researcher and activist advocating for epistemic and social justice in architecture and the built environment. Their research investigates politics and infrastructures of architectural history (subaltern epistemology, chronopolitics, repertoires and archives), historiographies of the flesh, oral and embodied epistemologies, reenactments, and queer performativity. They have been published in several books and journals, such as Architecture and Culture, Charrette, Plan Libre, L’atelier, gta Papers and Tabula Rasa. They edited the book Unearthing Traces, Dismantling the imperialist entanglements of archives, landscapes and the built environment (PPUR, 2023) with Denise Bertschi and Nitin Bathla. Janus teaches at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level. They are currently an SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University and are engaged in institutional activism with the queerspaceworkinggroup and the Queer Educators in Architecture Network.

Erscheinungsdatum	25.09.2025
Verlagsort	Zürich
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 140 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
Schlagworte	Africa • Architecture • Architektur • carboni • Decolonization • Diaz • dismantling • dismantling architectural fictions • Heritage • issoufou • maditla • sustainability
ISBN-10	3-907363-92-2 / 3907363922
ISBN-13	978-3-907363-92-8 / 9783907363928
Zustand	Neuware