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Originally published in 1996,
Stud: Architectures of Masculinity is an interdisciplinary exploration of the active role architecture plays in the construction of male identity.
List of contents
Acknowledgements Introduction
Part I: Home 1. So Functional for its Purposes: The Batchelor Apartment in Pillow Talk 2. Power Tool for the Dining Room: The Electric Carving Knife 3. Playboy's Penthouse Apartment 4. Cadet Quarters, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Skidmore 5. A to Z Domestic Prototypes 6. Adjustable Wall Bras 7. Tupperware 8. Collecting Well is the Best Revenge: Commemorative Fabric 9. Villa in Floriac
Part II: Homework 10. Berggasse 19: Inside Freud's Office 11. Untitled
Part III: Bathroom 12. Men's Room 13. The Latrine Project, Interim Office of Architecture 14. The Public Bathroom Project 15. Untitled 16. Selected Bathrooms
Part IV: Gym 17. When is a Body Not a Body? When it's a Building 18. Definitions Fitness Center #2, Thanhauser and Esterton 19. Badlands Health Club 20. OTTOshaft
Part V: Outings 21. Privacy Could Only Be Had in Public: Gay Uses of the Streets 22. Piano Bar 23. Circa 1977, Platzspitz Park Installation 24. Nightswimming, New York Cities 25. Fashion Plate 26. Untitled List of Contributors
About the author
Joel Sanders, FAIA is Principal of JSA (Joel Sanders Architect), his LGBTBE-certified, award-winning architecture firm based in New York, as well as MIXdesign, a think tank and design consultancy dedicated to creating inclusive design solutions that meet the needs of people of different ages, genders, religions and abilities. Sanders is Professor-in-Practice at Yale School of Architecture where he was Director of Post-Professional Studies from 2015-2021, and the author of three books --
STUD: Architectures of Masculinity, Joel Sanders: Writings and Projects and
Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture. JSA projects have been featured in international exhibitions and the permanent collections of MoMA, SF MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago and the Carnegie Museum of Art. The firm has received six New York Chapter AIA Design Awards, three New York State AIA Design Awards, three Interior Design Best of Year Awards, two ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Awards, and Design Citations from Progressive Architecture.
Summary
Originally published in 1996, Stud: Architectures of Masculinity is an interdisciplinary exploration of the active role architecture plays in the construction of male identity.
