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Special Topics in the History of Architecture | Instructor: Annmarie Adams

Sex and the Single Building

In Spring 2008, visiting professor and 2007-08 Arcus Endowment Fellow Annmarie Adams (William C. Macdonald Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) taught this 20th-century architectural history seminar on gender and space. It explored a series of everyday places where diverse body/space relationships are played out. How does architecture shape sexual identities and stereotypes? Where do feminist and queer theories intersect? What does the study of architectural typologies — the "single building" — tell us about gender? Students learned how to analyze space through primary-source documentation and hands-on fieldwork, while reviewing a range of readings on gender and sexuality.

Nina Aron

Evan Pruitt

Amy Russell