Sex and Buildings
Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution
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224 pages
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70 halftones
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6 x 8 2/5
- Contents
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Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction
1 The Care of the Body
2 Inside the Orgone Accumulator
3 Communal Living
4 Phallic Towers and ‘Mad Men’
5 Pornomodernism
6 The Hotel
7 What Would a Feminist City Look Like?
8 Queer and Other Spaces
Epilogue
References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Review Quotes
Iain Borden, University College London
“A fast-paced and insightful journey through architectures in which sex and sexuality are writ large. A thought-provoking, fascinating book.”
Times Higher Education
“An adventurous sex-travelogue, beautifully written and pleasurable from cover to cover.”
Choice
“Williams observes in Sex and Buildings that, on the whole, sexual experimentation and research burgeoned during the twentieth century. He examines how architecture, modern or otherwise, reflected and/or shaped this new behavior. Architects rarely have discussed how their buildings accommodate or promote sexual activity. To measure architecture’s potential to suggest or trigger erotic impulses, the author considers a diverse range of structures, including Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House, Mad Men television sets, Wilhelm Reich’s orgone accumulator, John Portman’s Bonaventure Hotel, and various utopian commune experiments. He describes their erotic symbolism and examines them from various, often conflicting, methodological viewpoints . . . This approach demonstrates a great nimbleness of mind.”
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