Main description:

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.

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