Joel Sanders Architect

Featured Writings

Writings Archive

2023

Look, Linger, and Touch Something
in Spike Art Magazine, Issue 75 (Spring 2023), pp. 108-115

From Stud to Stalled!: Social Equity and Public Restrooms
in eds. Fernandez Contreras, Javier and Roberto Zancan, Intimacy Exposed: Toilets, Bathrooms, Restrooms. Leipzig: Spector Books

Multisensory Wayfinding
in ed. Blaine Brownell, The Pandemic Effect: Ninety Experts on Immunizing the Built Environment. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

2022

Multisensorische Wegeführung
in Baumeister: Das Architektur-Magazin, Issue 119 (September 2022), pp. 14-20

Alternative Futures: Questioning Design Standards
in Schneiderman, Deborah, Anca I. Lasc, and Karin Tehve, eds. Appropriated Interiors. New York: Routledge.

2021

Preface to the 2021 Reissue
in Sanders, Joel, ed. Stud: Architectures of Masculinity (Routledge Revivals). New York: Routledge

2018

Human/Nature: Wilderness and the Landscape/Architecture Divide
Flow: Interior, Landscape, and Architecture in the Era of Liquid Modernity; Bloomsbury: p6-17

The Future of Cross-Disciplinary Practice
Shaping the American Interior, Routledge, pp. 195-204

2017

From Stud to Stalled! Architecture in Transition
Log (Issue 41), Anywhere Corporation, pp. 145-154

Stalled! Transforming Public Restrooms
Footprint Journal (v.11 no.2. 2017), Delft, pp. 109-118

2016

Stalled: Gender-Neutral Public Bathrooms
South Atlantic Quarterly (115:4), Duke University Press, p779-787

2014

An Aesthetic Headache: Notes on the Museum Bench (Chinese Translation)
Journal of the National Academy (v.35 no. 12. 2014), p11-24

2012

An Aesthetic Headache: Notes on the Museum Bench
Interiors, Bard College and Sternberg Press, p64-79

2011

Human/Nature: Wilderness and the Landscape/Architecture Divide
Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture, The Monacelli Press, p12-33

An Aesthetic Headache: Notes on the Museum Bench
Exhibition Catalog: If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now, Hessel Museum of Art

What's Next: Landscape and Architecture
What's Next? Projecting Futures for Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology

Inside Freud's Office
Toward a New Interior, Princeton Architectural Press

2010

Curtain Wars (Czech Translation)
Prague: Zlaty Rez

New Media and the Public Realm
International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society

2008

Making Sense: The MIX House
AD - Interior Atmospheres, May/June 2008

2006

Curtain Wars Revisited
PINUP, Fall 2006

Curtain Wars
Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader

2003

Ergotectonics: The Multi-Identity / Multi-Task Environment
METROPOLIS - 5th Sao Paulo International Biennial of Architecture and Design

2002

Curtain Wars
Harvard Design Magazine, Winter/Spring 2002, p14-20

(A)way Station
Aula

Out of Site: Fictional Architectural Spaces
ARTFORUM, November 2002, p82

2001

Ergotectonics: The Multi-Identity / Multi-Task Environment
Inside Space: Experiments in Redefining Rooms, MIT Press

2000

Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs
Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction

The Gym: A Site for Sore Eyes
Exhibition Catalog: Achieving Failure: Gym Culture 2000

1999

Frames of Mind
ARTFORUM, November 1999, p126-131

Closet Space
ARTFORUM, April 1999, p23

1998

Archigram: Designs on the Future
ARTFORUM, October 1998, p108-111

Ordinary People
BOOKFORUM, Summer 1998

1996

Male Space
Architecture, June 1996, p77-83

STUD: Architectures of Masculinity
Princeton Architectural Press

1993

Framing the Art Gallery
SITES / Lumen Books

1991

The Limits of Functionalism: Albert Frey and Paul Nelson
Design Book Review, Fall 1991, p26-30

1987

Learning from Ledoux
Design Book Review, Spring 1987, p57-60

1984

Chicago Architect's Design
Design Book Review, Winter 1984, p24-26