Dangerous Architectures - book launch

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Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London, AC/E Programme for the Internalisation of Spanish Culture presents the VI London Festival of Queer Spanish Culture Book Launch Dangerous Architectures Pol Esteve Castelló in conversation with Catalina Imizcoz Dangerous Architectures offers an exploration of cultural categories such as sexuality, comfort, gender, pleasure, and health, through a series of anonymous and collective architectures that accommodate social practices outside the norm. This compilation of six short texts and an interview approaches spatial practices that have resisted being part of architectural historiography, thereby revealing the relationships between spaces, technologies, bodies, and subjectivities that shape our societies beyond the frameworks of hegemonic desire and power. Pol Esteve Castelló are a PhD architect, researcher, and educator. Their practice explores the relationship between space, technology, and the body, with a focus on non-canonical histories, anonymous architectures, non-normative bodies, and aesthetics as a political tool. They are the author of the book Arquitecturas Peligrosas / Dangerous Architectures (Puente Editores, 2025 / DPR, 2026). They are co-founder of architecture studio GOIG awarded with the FAD Prize in 2022, 2024 and 2025. They are affiliated to the Architectural Association London and ETH Zurich. Catalina Imizcoz Catalina Imizcoz is an editor from Buenos Aires based in London. She specialises in exhibition studies and is associate lecturer in the Exhibition Studies MRes at Central Saint Martins since 2018. She did an AHRC-founded PhD (2020–24), looking at the history and ideology of exhibition design and challenging its normative and binary organisation of bodies and space. Her work has been published by Parse, Third Text, OnCurating, and others. She edited Adrián Villar Rojas at Phaidon Press, as well as surveys on queer art, Korean art, women artists and many more. From 2023 to 2025 she was Director of Cthulhu Books, centred on storytelling in our times of global catastrophes. She is the founder of Pina, a commissioning platform and portable exhibition space, for which she edited-curated exhibitions by Gala Porras-Kim, Asad Raza, Forensic Architecture, Edgar Calel, American Artist and C.B. Evans. Event in English. Copies of the book will be available for purchase after the talk. Check the Festival's website to know about our other events: https://bit.ly/LFQSC26 Ticket link