This website serves Arch 279X (Section 2)/GWS 210 (3), Sex and the Single Building, taught by Prof. Annmarie Adams at UC Berkeley in Spring 2008.  The course is a 20th-century architectural history seminar on gender and space.  It explores a series of everyday places where diverse body/space relationships are played out.  Students will learn how to analyze space through primary source documentation and on-site fieldwork, while reviewing a range of readings on sexuality and space.  Enrollment is limited to eighteen students.  Thursdays, 9:30-12:30, Wurster Hall, room 170.  For more information contact Prof. Adams, annmarie.adams@mcgill.ca, 510 642 4503.  Please note that a similar course will be taught at McGill University in Winter 2009.

This course is generously funded by the Arcus Endowment  which was established in 2000 with a generous gift to the College of Environmental Design from the Arcus Foundation in Michigan. The endowment seeks to support a wide range of critical activities that explore the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment. Through annual lectures and a scholar-in-residence program, the endowment seeks to foster an awareness of the role of Lesbian / Gay / Bisexual / Transgender / Queer (LGBTQ) communities in the history of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and the built environment disciplines. Its goals include efforts to combat homophobia, affirm the contribution of LGBTQ communities in education and professional practice, and place LGBTQ issues in a global context through comparative studies and international collaborations. The endowment also recognizes and supports the activities of LGBTQ students in the built environment professions.