un/BECOME : queering process

This thesis proposes a new architectural process, questioning what does it mean to operate as the queer architect beyond investigations of queer space. Through defining queerness according to contemporary theoretical positions, this thesis examines a variety of queer theoretical positions describing their qualities which relate to philosophical concerns surrounding the re/production of cis-heteronormative politics as well as queer identity and life history. The described qualities are extrapolated and applied as punctures to the existing architectural process as means to disrupt the dominant forms of knowing and operating. Understanding queerness as a subversion of dominant ideology around design provides means for new ways of knowing and being, and speculates on a domain in which we turn from the rational-masculinized ideal and operate within the illegible, unstable, and circular evolution of queer life history within Vancouver.