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- Title
CONSUMING QUEERSPACE: Deconstructing the Glass Brick Wall.
- Authors
Ofield, Simon
- Abstract
The article traces the emergence of the glass brick into modern social space as a gay icon which has its roots in pre-war public toilets and early modernist architecture. According to the author, the glass brick has the potential to become the exemplary architectural symbol of contemporary queer theory. He notes that, as a part of the rhetorics of architectural modernizations in the 1950s, glass brick became attached to the promotion of the homosexual as a coherent and modern identity.
- Subjects
BRICKS; SPACE (Architecture); COMPOSITION in architecture; SPACE perception; ARCHITECTURE; TOILETS; LGBTQ+ culture
- Publication
Architectural Design, 1998, Vol 68, Issue 1/2, p49
- ISSN
0003-8504
- Publication type
Article