Architecture performs through bodies. Its conceptualization entails choreographing bodily movements. Drawings are spatial scripts, to which bodies perform in conformity, transgression, re-appropriation, or indifference. Performances can be corporeal or phenomenological, planned or spontaneous, everyday or a singularity. They charge architecture with vibrant energies disrupting the exigencies and politics of built spaces.

The tenth issue of Room One Thousand, “Body + Performance,” seeks for performance to expand and challenge our understanding of architecture and its impact. Performance can be understood as object, phenomenon, commodity, or metaphor. The convergence of architecture and performance captures the corporeality, tactility, and sensuality of a space. How can architecture be read through the lens of performance? Who is the performer, the building or the body? What are the design implications of highlighting the agency and plurality of bodies? What happens when architectural practice shifts from performance to production? How can performance be a methodology in design?

Editors-in-Chief: Lucy Wang, Nathan Shui

Graphics Editors: Sam Miller, Yasmine Kahsai

Room One Thousand Team: Elaine Forbush, Frederik Brauner, Gene Lee, Isabelle de Metz, Millicent Akayesi, Sam Hsieh, Shelby Kendrick, Shin Rung Yang, Sunyoung Lee

Published in June 2022