Architectures of Security

Benjamin J. Muller is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, King’s University College. Can E. Mutlu is Associate Professor at Acadia University.

Pushing the boundaries of critical geopolitics, architecture, design, and international politics, Muller and Mutlu's inventive and diverse collection brings a sharp and necessary focus on the border between aesthetics and control to understand how spaces, structures, and systems make the strange dangerous and the familiar seem safe. Architectures of Security is an important contribution to a series debates in critical international relations, critical security studies, human and cultural geography about infrastructure, affect, and control.

• 1. Benjamin Muller and Can E. Mutlu, Introduction: Architecture and SecurityPart I: Design, and Security2. Natalie Rowe, View as Narrative: The Built Environment as a Social Model for Individuals with Dementia3. Can E. Mutlu, Aesthetics of Security: (Re)designing the Sandy Hook School Building 4. Mahdi Tourage, Curated Memory: Notes on Toronto’s Agha Khan MuseumPart II: Control and Security5. Adam Nowek, An Architecture of Control: Spatial and Digital Methods of Social Sorting in the Dutch Built Environment6. Miguel de Larrinaga, The Spaces of Teargas and Contentious Politics7. Leopold Lambert, The Politics of the Bulldozer8. Thomas N. Cooke, Security, Circulation and Noise in Pearson International Airport Part III: Border Security and Mobility9. Jennifer Mustapha, Border security legislation and the construction of uncertain spaces: the case of Bill C-2310. Benjamin Muller, iBorders: Beautiful and Ferocious Architecture at the Canada/US Border 11. Daniela Johannes, Transborder Immigrant Tool: Re-structuring U.S.-Mexico Border Assemblages12. Afterword by Ronald Rael or Eyal Weizman - TBCContributors NotesGlossary of terms