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.

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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.

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Notes on Contributors*Acknowledgements*

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

6. 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

11. Propping Up the Cloud
    Elsa MH Mäki

Index