THE ULTIMATUM
An Ableist Manifesto
A provocative satire about architecture and disability, presented as a ten-act narrative.
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Entertaining, insightful, critical, and comedic, The Ultimatum: An Ableist Manifesto is a captivating satire about architecture and disability. In ten Acts, it tells of the Architects’ struggle to contain a race of deviants known as the Mistakes. To save Architecture, the Mistakes must be corrected, concealed, and confined by any means necessary. The Architects’ sinister spatial Solutions—designed to rehabilitate, exhibit, seclude, assimilate, and patronize—subject the Mistakes to terror and torment in pursuit of progress.
As both a holistic critique and an urgent call to action, the book problematizes architecture’s marginalization of people with disabilities and calls on the need for widespread social change. Its extensive Appendix of image references also makes it an accessible guide to global disability history and its intersections with architecture and urban design.
Author: Matthew Schrage
Editor: Andrew Gipe-Lazarou
Publication date: November 2026
Language: English
Size: 9.5 × 10 inches
Pages: 86
Format: Available in print hardback and E-book formats. E-book is an accessible PDF delivered via email.
Illustrations: 16 color, 40 black & white
ISBNs (Hardback / E-book): 979-8-9975933-0-8 / 979-8-9975933-1-5
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A provocative satire about architecture and disability, presented as a ten-act narrative.