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- catalog abstract "Buildings have always been an expression of human sexuality. In this book, architecture critic and curator Aaron Betsky takes a look at the man-made world and concludes that it is just that: made by men and not women. The structure of buildings and the layout of cities in the modern world have almost always been determined by men, and the abstract and alien order of grids and columns that has resulted imprisons us in a way of living based on repression and, in some cases, oppression. By contrast, it is women who create the interior spaces within these man-created environments. Comfortable, beautiful, seductive, and logical, these interiors act as areas of escape, self-definition, and sometimes even revelation. Drawing on a wide range of architectural examples, from African mud huts to modern apartment complexes, Betsky explores what effects this division of architectural labor has had on our sensibilities and, indeed, on how we relate to one another as men and women. He believes that although it has always been thus, we do not have to live within this dichotomy between the exterior and the interior, the made and the lived, the masculine and the feminine, forever. It is possible, says Betsky, to create "spaces of liberation, spaces in which we can re-construct our selves and our world."".
- catalog contributor b8261828.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Buildings have always been an expression of human sexuality. In this book, architecture critic and curator Aaron Betsky takes a look at the man-made world and concludes that it is just that: made by men and not women. The structure of buildings and the layout of cities in the modern world have almost always been determined by men, and the abstract and alien order of grids and columns that has resulted imprisons us in a way of living based on repression and, in some cases, oppression. By contrast, it is women who create the interior spaces within these man-created environments. Comfortable, beautiful, seductive, and logical, these interiors act as areas of escape, self-definition, and sometimes even revelation. Drawing on a wide range of architectural examples, from African mud huts to modern apartment complexes, Betsky explores what effects this division of architectural labor has had on our sensibilities and, indeed, on how we relate to one another as men and women. He believes that although it has always been thus, we do not have to live within this dichotomy between the exterior and the interior, the made and the lived, the masculine and the feminine, forever. It is possible, says Betsky, to create "spaces of liberation, spaces in which we can re-construct our selves and our world."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Of penises and tents -- Spaces of domination, tricks of domesticity -- Crossroads and crypts -- The romance of other spaces -- Erecting perfection -- The gilded cage -- The discreet places of the bourgeoise -- At home in the maelstrom of modernity -- Constructing sex.".
- catalog extent "xix, 236 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Building sex.".
- catalog identifier "0688131670".
- catalog isFormatOf "Building sex.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : William Morrow,".
- catalog relation "Building sex.".
- catalog subject "720/.1/03 20".
- catalog subject "Architecture and society.".
- catalog subject "Architecture and women.".
- catalog subject "NA2543.W65 B48 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Of penises and tents -- Spaces of domination, tricks of domesticity -- Crossroads and crypts -- The romance of other spaces -- Erecting perfection -- The gilded cage -- The discreet places of the bourgeoise -- At home in the maelstrom of modernity -- Constructing sex.".
- catalog title "Building sex : men, women, and the construction of sexuality / Aaron Betsky.".
- catalog type "text".