Guiding Architects, article: “1,000 m² of Desire — Architecture and Sexuality” (Fig. 1)

Playboy Bubble, Design Studio Chrysalis, in Playboy Magazine, april 1972, p. 118. © Richard Fish

This is an unorthodox exhibition examining how Western predominantly male culture has imagined and built spaces for intimacy. Projects range from Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon to Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Magazine. To see at CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona, until March 19th, 2017.

http://www.cccb.org/en/exhibitions/file/1000-m2-of-desire/223704

Guiding Architects, article: “1,000 m² of Desire — Architecture and Sexuality” (Fig. 2)

“Collage 2”, a piece from 1968 by Ricardo Bofill. © Ricardo Bofill