From STUD to Stalled!: Queer Space 1996 – 2016
June 24, 2021
Join us Monday, June 28 at 12pm EST to celebrate Pride Month and the republication of STUD: Architectures of Masculinity as part of the Routledge Revivals Series with a virtual discussion hosted by The Architectural League of New York.
Mario Gooden and Joel Sanders will discuss how concepts of queer space have shifted in the twenty-five years since Sanders published STUD, mirroring the book’s new preface which traces the development of Sanders’ thinking about the intersection of gender, human embodiment and space.
Looking at STUD through a twenty-first-century lens, Gooden and Sanders will assess the book’s strengths and limitations. According to Sanders, the principles that shaped its methodology—the notion of performativity and the imperative to analyze and dismantle the architectural conventions encoded in building typologies, standards, and codes—are still relevant today. However, STUD is also a time capsule that was shaped and ultimately constrained by a reductive, outmoded binary conception of gender that was prevalent in both gender studies and queer activism in the mid-1990s. The discussion will explore how Sanders’ work, influenced by trans and disability studies, is now informed by a more expansive and inclusive conception of the intersectional nature of human embodied experience.
Register HERE for this free online event.
This program offers 1 AIA and New York State CEU.