In architecture, the Linnean desire for taxonomy and category can be very strong. Order is sought and achieved by labelling this building modernist, that designer minimalist, and the temptation was there for designer Adam Nathaniel Furman and historian Joshua Mardell to do the same.
The duo teamed up to write at the height of the pandemic – no mean feat given that many of the 90 spaces featured and newly photographed were closed. The result, published by RIBA Publishing, is tender and beautifully written – a powerful resource, in Furman and Mardell’s own words, for “queers and
