The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access Entertainment_Gift_Guide A New Yorker “Best Book

A New Yorker “Best Book of 2024” Selection

Sissel’s seemingly innocuous cottage is piled with clutter

and while she soon carves out a place for herself among a group of fellow outsiders

This book is a manual for navigating the extreme violence that Native people experience in reservation bordertowns and a manifesto for indigenous liberation that builds on long traditions of Native resistance to bordertown violence

anchored by his solitude and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts

The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access Entertainment_Gift_Guide A New Yorker “Best BookA radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access, but The Architecture of Disability calls for a radical reorientation of this perspective by situating experiences of impairment as a new foundation for the built environment. With its provocative proposal for the construction of disability, this book