2024-11-23T15:16:24-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/149941821/screen-print-41-family-planning-from-harvard-design-magazine Nicholas Korody 2016-04-22T09:45:00-04:00 >2016-04-28T00:37:45-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/p0/p07vyldouv4js30p.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>It&rsquo;s among the worst clich&eacute;s of architectural writing: towers are phallic; stadiums (or just any project by a certain recently-deceased <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/87369405/zaha-hadid-says-al-wakrah-world-cup-stadium-doesn-t-resemble-vagina" target="_blank">icon</a>) are vulval. But what about when the architects themselves describe their project in genital terms? And, in particular, when they take inspiration not from some heroic idea of rigidity, but rather acceptance of a more prosaic state of flaccidity?</p>