Stud: Architectures of Masculinity

by Joel Sanders (Editor)

Originally published in 1996, Stud: Architectures of Masculinity is an interdisciplinary exploration of the active role architecture plays in the construction of male identity. Architects, artists, and theorists investigate how sexuality is constituted through the organization of materials, objects, and human subjects in actual space. This collection of essays and visual projects critically analyzes the spaces that we habitually take for granted but that quietly participates in the manufacturing of "maleness." Employing a variety of critical perspectives (feminism, "queer theory," deconstruction, and psychoanalysis), Stud's contributors reveal how masculinity, always an unstable construct, is coded in our environment. Stud also addresses the relationship between architecture and gay male sexuality, illustrating the resourceful ways that gay men have appropriated and reordered everyday public domains, from streets to sex clubs, in the formation of gay social space.

Genres: Architecture, Queer

316 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[يوسف عبداللطيف · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading "Stud: Architectures of Masculinity" reassures you that "Joel Sanders" actually respects the audience's intelligence. No fluff, no recycled theory—just tight arguments on how authority and leverage really function.