On Disappearance within Architectural Writing

ISABELLE DOUCET is Professor of Theory and History of Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology. Recent editorial projects include Activism at Home: Architects Dwelling between Politics, Aesthetics, and Resistance (with Janina Gosseye, 2021), and the issue ‘Resist Reclaim Speculate: Situated Perspectives on Architecture and the City’ in Architectural Theory Review (with Hélène Frichot, 2018).

HÉLÈNE FRICHOT is Professor of Architecture and Philosophy, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, Australia. Previously, she was Professor of Critical Studies and Gender Theory, and Director of Critical Studies in Architecture, KTH Stockholm, Sweden. With Adrià Carbonell, Hannes Frykholm, and Sepideh Karami, she has recently published Infrastructural Love: Caring for our Architectural Support Systems (Birkhauser 2022).

JANINA GOSSEYE is Professor of Building Ideologies at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. Recent publications include Urban Design the 20th Century: A History (2021, with Tom Avermaete) and Activism at Home: Architects Dwelling between Politics, Aesthetics and Resistance (2021, with Isabelle Doucet).

NAOMI STEAD is Director of the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platform at RMIT, where she is also a Professor in the School of Media and Communication. She has edited six books, including the award-winning After the Australian Ugliness (NGV & Thames and Hudson, 2020) with Tom Lee, Ewan McEoin, and Megan Patty; Writing Architectures: Fictocritical Approaches (Bloomsbury, 2020) with Hélène Frichot; and most recently Queering Architecture: Methods, Spaces, Practices, and Pedagogies (Bloomsbury, 2023) with Marko Jobst.