Sex and buildings : modern architecture and the sexual revolution / Richard J. Williams.

Main entry:

Williams, Richard J., 1967-

Title & Author:

Sex and buildings : modern architecture and the sexual revolution / Richard J. Williams.

Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2013.

Description:

224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-216) and index.
The care of the body -- Inside the orgone accumulator -- Communal living -- Phallic towers and Mad Men -- Pornomodernism -- The hotel -- What would a feminist city look like? -- Queer and other spaces.

Summary:

"Part architectural history, part cultural analysis and part travelogue, Sex and buildings explores how sexual attitudes appear in architecture. It asks what a sexually progressive architecture might look like--and how we understand some architectures as repressive. In search of the revolutionary, the enlightened and the buttoned-up, this book tours California's modernist houses, the Playboy Mansion, Brazilian love hotels, 1960s communes and the architecture of Man men"--Jacket, page [2].

ISBN:

1780231040
9781780231044

Subject:

Architecture and society History 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Case studies.
Sexual ethics History 20th century.
Architecture et société Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle Études de cas.
Morale sexuelle Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern Case studies. 20th century.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture and society
Architecture, Modern
Sexual ethics

Form/genre:

Case studies
History
Études de cas.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283577
Call No.: BIB 221903
Status: Available

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