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Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution
Richard J. Williams
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Description for Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution
Hardback. Combining architectural history, cultural history and travelogue, this book by Williams is an exploration of how progressive twentieth-century sexual attitudes influenced modern architecture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 70 black and white. BIC Classification: AMA; JHBK5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 172 x 21. Weight in Grams: 568.
Massive modern skyscrapers, obelisks, towers - all are structures that, thanks to their phallic shape, are often associated with sex. But other buildings are more subtly connected, as they provide the frameworks for our sexual lives and act as reminders of our sexual memories and fantasies. This relationship between sex and buildings mattered more than ever in the United States and Europe during the turbulent twentieth century, when a culture of unprecedented sexual frankness and tolerance emerged and came to dominate many aspects of public life. Part architectural history, part cultural history, and part travelogue, Sex and Buildings ... Read more
Massive modern skyscrapers, obelisks, towers - all are structures that, thanks to their phallic shape, are often associated with sex. But other buildings are more subtly connected, as they provide the frameworks for our sexual lives and act as reminders of our sexual memories and fantasies. This relationship between sex and buildings mattered more than ever in the United States and Europe during the turbulent twentieth century, when a culture of unprecedented sexual frankness and tolerance emerged and came to dominate many aspects of public life. Part architectural history, part cultural history, and part travelogue, Sex and Buildings ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
568g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780231044
SKU
V9781780231044
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About Richard J. Williams
Richard J. Williams is Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. His previous books include The Anxious City (2004) and Brazil: Modern Architectures in History (Reaktion Books, 2009).
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