AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Speaking Transgressionin Times of CrisesCarmen PopescuPart One: Recodifying Inhabiting: On So cietal Mutations and Resituating Margins1 “The Single-Persons Project”: Council Housing Beyond the Nuclear FamilySavia Palate2 The Representability of Interstitial ScenesSarah Mills and Simon Baker3 On Relational Histories of Spatial Law and TransgressionTiago Castela4 On Weeds and Hospitality: An Architectural Point of View on (Bio)DiversityCarmen PopescuPart Two: Bending Politics: On Moving the Lines5 Limit(ation)s: Squatting in Naldöken, IzmirGülsüm Baydar, Kıvanc Kılınç, and Ahenk Yılmaz6 Living with the Museum: Uses of Memory and the Normalization of StrugglesLeandro Peredo7 Climbing Over, Stepping Across: Transgression as Lived Alternative in the Practice of StalkerPatrick Düblin8 Liminality as Transgression: The Urban Ritual of XRFrancesca Romana Dell’AglioPart Three: Deviating Theory: On Co ncepts and Devices9 Transgression—Where Experience Meets with Concept? Tschumi’s “Paradox of Architecture” RevisitedOle W. Fischer10 Trapping, Dismembering and Crucifying Angels: Tracing the Sacred in Hejduk’s BovisaJesse Rafeiro11 Entwined Spaces of Boredom, Desire, and TransgressionChristian ParrenoAbout the AuthorsAcknowledgmentsTransgressive acts in architecture as responses to today’s ecological, political, economic, and social crisesIn architecture, transgressive acts have always been a reality, in spite of rules and canons that have defined the discipline and its extended field. However, in recent decades their frequency and radicality have surged from rather random, marginal and/or idiosyncratic phenomena. While their sudden rise can be explained as a reaction to the compulsive normativity of modernity, the deeper roots are to be sought elsewhere: the recent waves of transgressiveness are intimately linked to the hypercrisis affecting our world today – spanning ecological, political, economic, and social dimensions, and catalysing fundamental mutations and disorders. Some of these transgressive acts are motivated by a desire to dismantle a malfunctioning system, but more often than not breaking the rules has become an inherent survival tactic amid urgent social challenges. In our era of after-modernity, transgression emerges not just as an act of defiance but reveals a new paradigm at work – a critical framework for reimagining the built environment, challenging established orders, and advocating for the rights of marginalised populations. Drawing on a rich array of theoretical insights and empirical case studies from multiple countries, this volume provides a unique, forward-looking perspective on transgressive acts in architecture as responses to today’s ecological, political, economic, and social crises.