repairative architectures

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Reading List — On Repair

A curated selection of readings on repair, care, and Southern urbanism, grounding the work of Repairative Architectures.

  • Repair. AR. The Architectural Review, Issue 1508 (February 2024). Read here
  • Making Home: Stories of Maintenance and Repair in Inner-City Johannesburg. ASF-UK, 1to1 – Agency of Engagement, and IIED, with Beatrice De Carli, Valentina Riverso, Jhono Bennett, et al. Architecture Sans Frontières UK, 2025. Read here
  • Relational Resilience and Reparative Design: Participatory Practices and the Politics of Space in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg. Jhono Bennett. Architecture 5, no. 4 (2025): 111. DOI: 10.3390/architecture5040111
  • Repair as Practice: Expanding Architectural Approaches to Climate Justice in Southern Africa. Jhono Bennett. Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge 4, no. 8 (2024): 351–68. DOI: 10.14361/dak-2024-0815
  • Repair For… Jhono Bennett, Zachary Fluker, and Maxwell Mutanda, 2022. Visit ug2.repair
  • Unmasking the Architect in a World of Repair. Jhono Bennett. In Unmasking Space: Handbook for Student Activism and Architectural Education, edited by Unmasking Space Collective, Malik Becker, Victoria Balmer, et al. Ca’ Buccari & ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture, 2025. Read here
  • Working with Southern Architectures: Locating a Reparative Urban Design Praxis. Jhono Bennett. In The Routledge Handbook of Southern Urbanism(s), 1st ed., edited by Catalina Ortiz and Chandrima Mukhopadhyay. Routledge, 2026. DOI: 10.4324/9781003502579-5
  • Repair: Sustainable Design Futures. Markus Berger and Kate Irvin, eds. Routledge, 2023. Read here
  • The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. Donna J. Haraway. Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003. Read here
  • Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Donna J. Haraway. Duke University Press, 2016. DOI: 10.1215/9780822373780
  • Is Repair Repairing Architecture? O. Ioannou. In Repair: Sustainable Design Futures, edited by Kate Irvin and Markus Berger. Routledge, 2022. Read here
  • Traditional Repair / Immaterial Injury. Kader Attia, 2014–2018. Read here
  • Strandlooping as a Relational Enquiry to Reimagine Higher Education and Gender Studies along the Camissa Coastline. Aaniyah Martin. Gender and Education 36, no. 8 (2024): 830–44. DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2024.2378701
  • Tending Building: An Ethic of Repair in Architecture. Kiel Moe and Daniel S. Friedman. Places Journal, February 7, 2024. Read here
  • Repair Manual (series). Places Journal. Read here
  • Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds. Maria Puig de la Bellacasa. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. Read here
  • Mending and Anatomy: Making Your Hands Knowledgeable. Celia Pym. Utopian Studies 28, no. 3 (2017): 562–75. DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.28.3.0562
  • Repair: The Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World by Elizabeth V. Spelman, reviewed by Falguni A. Sheth. Hypatia Reviews Online 2004 (January 2004): E6. DOI: 10.1017/S2753906700000747