It’s odd how little architects have had to say on the subject of sex. If they’re routinely designing the buildings in which sex happens, then you might expect them to spend more time thinking about it. Buildings frame and house our sexual lives — Aeon
Richard J Williams (Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures at the University of Edinburgh) is the author of Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution (2013). In a recent piece he explores the relationship between sex, communal living and architecture. Mr. Williams, believes that architecture can improve our sex lives.
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An entertaining read. I wish the author would have spent more time exploring the norm (neighborhood) and less the aberrant (the commune). The utopian critique is less useful than simply understanding the social/sexual construct latent within architectural form (where he in fact started the essay looking at his neighborhood of Morningside).
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