ARQ 111 | Decolonizar / Decolonize
(April 2022)

Valentina Rozas-Krause (guest ed.); various authors
Journal; paperback
20.6 x 27 cm | 156 pp.
Spanish + English
ISSN: 0716-0852 | ISSN (online): 0717-6996
What does decolonizing architecture mean? This issue is dedicated to this question. It is not a coincidence that we are asking this now. In the past years, architecture, understood broadly, seems to be in a process of decolonial reckoning. More and more historians, theorists, curators, publishers, and practitioners are thinking about the entanglement between colonial and neocolonial violence and the built environment. From heated debates about dismantling the Eurocentric architectural history survey to an increasing number of exhibitions dedicated to the topic, this issue of ARQ reveals how the ideas of decolonization have permeated architectural thinking and practice.

Contributions by: Nicholas Galanin, Leslie Lokko, Fernando Luiz Lara, Nanette Snoep, Raumlabor, Irene Cheng, Nina Kolowratnik, Diego Vivas, Claudia Larraín, Josefina Tapia, Manuel Shvartzberg, Ronald Rael, Andrew Hersher, Ana María León, Natura Futura, Frontera Sur, Francisca Pimentel, Josefina Guilisasti, Cecilia Puga, Paula Velasco, Bárbara Barreda, Lía Aliaga, Dino Bozzi.

“Skeptics might say decolonization is a trend; others might argue that it is being whitewashed, used benignly as a metaphor for inclusion. However, what if we are in the midst of a ‘decolonial turn’ in architecture, a transformation that will reshape the understanding of our discipline and its world-building effects in the future?”

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