Lgbtq architecture critics
Architecture - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Sexuality in Architecture
Call Number: 720.108 S933
ISBN: 9781568980768
Publication Date: 1996-05-01
Stud is an interdisciplinary exploration of the active role architecture plays in the construction of male identity. Architects, artists, and theorists probe how sexuality is constituted through the organization of materials, objects, and human subjects in actual cosmos. This collection of essays and visual projects critically analyzes the spaces that we habitually take for granted but that hush 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 widespread domains,from streets to sex clubs, in the formation of gay social room. Essays include Steven Cohan on the bachelor pad, Ellen Lupton on the electric carving
The Glass House as Male lover Space: Exploring the Intersection of Homosexuality and Architecture
1.) The Western world’s collective cultural obsession with voyeurism--stretching from Johnson to Hitchcock to Foucault to Antonioni--began around this period; it grew in parallel with many Westerners’ growing obsession with preserving the place as the last frontier of privacy.
2.) Friedman, Alice T. “People Who Exist in Glass Houses: Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson” in Women and the Making of the Modern House. New York: Henry N. Abrams, inc., 1998. Pg. 154.
3.) D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pg. 40.
4.) Ibid. 41.
5.) Ibid. 46.
6.) Friedman, “People Who Exist in Glass Houses,” 148.
7.) Ibid. Johnson specifically requested that the New Yorker conceal his homosexuality in a 1977 profile of the architect, fearing it would cost him his commission to design the AT&T building.
8.) Babuscio, Jack. “Camp and the Queer Sensibility” in Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality. D
OUT of Space
OUT of Space highlights contributions of the LGBTQ+ community within architecture and the built environment. The exhibition was originally organised by the RIBA LGBTQ+ Community internal organization, and the RIBA Library and Collections team for display during LGBT+ History Month 2023.
The exhibition presents items from within the collections including books and photographs from architects and clients who designed spaces that expressed (or concealed) their identity.
Out of Space
Out of Space is divided into two sections displaying the relationship between the LGBTQ+ community and architecture throughout history. Starting from the 18th century and ending in the present, this exhibition gives voice to people who are part of the LGBTQ+ community and their way of relating to space.
This includes the connection between clients and architects, in which the cosmos is shaped with the aim to fulfil the client’s expectations (e.g. Their own home or their workspace); public spaces specifically designed either temporarily or permanently for the Gay community; and the appropriation or the spontaneous formation of spaces publicly free but not specifically desig
The ‘disheartening’ results of the AJ’s latest annual lesbian, same-sex attracted, bisexual and trans (LGBT+) survey convey a worrying development of intolerance in wider society, according to architects and leading diversity experts. The data unhurried from nearly 250 LGBT+ architects shows a surprising and disturbing drop in the proportion of qualified professionals and students identifying as LGBT+ who contain come out in the workplace.
In 2016 – the last time the AJ ran the questionnaire – 80 per cent of LGBT+ respondents said they were ‘out’ in their practice. But that figure has now fallen to 73 per cent. Outside London the percentage is even lower with just 62 per cent of LGBT+ respondents from the regions saying they are open about their sexuality or gender in the office.
There has also been a slight amplify in the proportion of LGBT+ architects who say they have heard homophobic and/or transphobic slurs being used as insults in the workplace – 39 per cent compared with 37 per cent in 2016.
‘We have become a less tolerant world recently,’ warns Lisa Sumner, an associate director at Williams Lester and a transgender woman. Statistics display increased levels of hate crime and
What is a gay space? The elderly English term “queer” is thought to come from the German “quer”, interpretation oblique or diagonal, which enticingly hints that the notion of what we now call queerness has its roots in spatial concepts.
Same-sex desire does not have the side-to-side nature of friendship or the other side nature of heterosexual attraction. Desire between men or among women has a diagonal orientation.
Thinking about desire in vacuum, about how people might be reverse, alongside or diagonal to others, is at least unconsciously part of every serious architect’s work. I can remember, initial on in my career, a gathering with a hotel client. He was concerned with achieving the best spatial relationships in the hotel bar for the purposes of encouraging escorts to notice comfortable about functional the space.
Personally, as an architect and designer, I would have preferred a more systematically compiled book
I was talking to a developer about furtive glances, safe spaces and forbidden desires. The bar had get a subtle, subversive and delicious oppose within what was otherwise a banal, wipe-clean, normative plan. For me, that meeting suddenly felt a little gay.