Queering California Modernism: Architectural Figurations and Media Exposure of Gay Domesticity in the Roosevelt Era
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Título: | Queering California Modernism: Architectural Figurations and Media Exposure of Gay Domesticity in the Roosevelt Era |
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Autor/es: | Parra-Martinez, Jose | Gutiérrez-Mozo, María-Elia | Gilsanz Díaz, Ana |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Metrópoli, Arquitectura y su Patrimonio (MAP) | Grupo de Investigación en Arquitectura: Experiencias del Entorno (GIA_EDE) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Expresión Gráfica, Composición y Proyectos |
Palabras clave: | Architecture | Modernism | Gay patrons | California |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Composición Arquitectónica |
Fecha de publicación: | 9-oct-2020 |
Editor: | Ubiquity Press |
Cita bibliográfica: | Parra-Martínez, J, Gutiérrez-Mozo, M-E and Gilsanz-Díaz, A-C. 2020. Queering California Modernism: Architectural Figurations and Media Exposure of Gay Domesticity in the Roosevelt Era. Architectural Histories, 8(1): 14, pp. 1–22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ah.382 |
Resumen: | This paper examines three houses built for gay patrons on the California coast shortly before World War II. The first is the small structure that Harwell H. Harris designed for the future Arts & Architecture editor John Entenza in Santa Monica, completed in 1938; the second is this same architect’s masterpiece in Berkeley, of 1941, which he created for his lifelong friend, Weston Havens; the third, by William Alexander, is in Laguna Beach, built in 1937 to accommodate the love triangle involving author-adventurer Richard Halliburton, Paul Mooney and Alexander himself. Notwithstanding their different requirements and scales, these dwellings can be understood as dramatic observatories which, protected from inquisitive gazes, strove to see without being seen. Although the care that went into ensuring their inhabitants’ privacy might appear to conflict with the concern for making them objects of public seduction and media attention, both these strategies were inextricably intertwined. Yet, beyond the visual primacy in the organization of their interiors and the striking formal solutions to their exteriors, a comparative analysis of these houses and their physical and metaphorical modes of simulation, dissimulation and stimulation reveals the emergence of other spatial proposals, sensory invitations and symbolic registers which, as lines of flight of modernism, challenge normative ways of codifying identity, sexuality and queer affections. |
Patrocinador/es: | This research has been funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain (Grant Code: PGC2018-095905-A-I00). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/109659 |
ISSN: | 2050-5833 |
DOI: | 10.5334/ah.382 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2020 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.5334/ah.382 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - GIA_EDE - Artículos de Revistas INV - MAP - Artículos de Revistas |
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