Edited by Assistant Professor Brittany Utting, Architectures of Care: From the Intimate to the Common (Routledge, 2024) explores how spaces of care shape our affective, material, and social forms—from the most intimate scale of the body to our planetary commons. In this volume, diverse essays investigate how the discipline of architecture can engage with an expanded definition of care. Contributors question traditional gender roles and bodily norms through their work and scholarship to produce hybrid entanglements of bodies, collective lives, and environments.
Individual chapters explore issues ranging from disabled domesticities and nursing, unbuilding whiteness in the built environment, practices and pedagogies of environmental care, and the solidarity networks within “The Cloud.” Contributing authors include Neeraj Bhatia, Jay Cephas, Lilian Chee, Hélène Frichot, Ignacio G. Galán, Daniel Jacobs, Gilly Karjevsky, Joy Knoblauch, Fabiola López-Durán, Elsa MH Mäki, Piergianna Mazzocca, Adrienne Rooney, Rosario Talevi, and Brittany Utting with a photo essay by Ian Mun.
Igor Marjanović, William Ward Watkin Dean of Rice Architecture, congratulated Utting on the book’s publication, stating, “The study and consideration of care is invaluable as we think through what it truly means to reimagine our shared planetary future. The approaches outlined in this important volume provide an essential and necessary framework for designers as they contend with the role that architecture plays in building a more socially and environmentally just world.”
Architectures of Care: From the Intimate to the Common can be purchased directly from Routledge’s website.