Architecture and Gender: Waiting Places, Spaces of Privilege

Space as a gender adjacency and sexuality's spatial dimension are recent themes in architecture. The case of the bathroom as a gender-regulating device is a constantly discussed topic at the intersections of queer theory in architecture. The discussion is even broader within LGBTQIA+ guidelines.

Architecture and Gender: Waiting Places, Spaces of Privilege
Image created in DALL-E by Lucas Reitz under the prompt: "an illustration of shopping mall sitting and waiting areas with couches and arm chair only occupied by white middle class men" Image created in DALL-E by Lucas Reitz under the prompt: "an illustration of shopping mall sitting and waiting areas with couches and arm chair only occupied by white middle class men"

Space as a gender adjacency and sexuality's spatial dimension are recent themes in architecture. The case of the bathroom as a gender-regulating device is a constantly discussed topic at the intersections of queer theory in architecture. The discussion is even broader within LGBTQIA+ guidelines.

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