The Arcus/Places Prize

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

The Arcus/Places Prize is a unique collaboration between Places and the Diversity Platforms Committee of the College of Environmental Design at University of California, Berkeley. Established in 2014 to support innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment, the award is funded by the college’s Arcus Endowment, which was launched with a generous gift from the Arcus Foundation. The next round of the biennial award will be announced in 2020.

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Queer Old Things
Alice T. Friedman
In Paris in the mid 20th century there emerged a zone of queer space — a lesbian archipelago on the Left Bank that was both novel and ostentatiously radical.
Unbuilding Gender
Jack Halberstam
What might the abstract and architectural offer in terms of transgender representation? We can start by looking at the art of Gordon Matta-Clark.
The Crumple and the Scrape
Lucas Crawford
What bodies, and which desires, do you build into your designs or your criticism?

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In This Series

Queer Old Things

Unbuilding Gender

The Crumple and the Scrape

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In This Series

Queer Old Things

Unbuilding Gender

The Crumple and the Scrape