Erotic Aspects of Architectural Utopias

Sergey Sitar: architect, critic, editor-in-chief of PROJECT International.

Architectural utopianism and philosophy address broad questions and offer the most radical alternatives to prevailing views.  Philosophy questions those views which are formalized in the form of concepts and judgments.  Utopian planning seeks to “bomb” the stereotypes, embodied in the systems of things and spaces. But how far-reaching is this spatial autonomy of visionary architecture? How dependant does it remain on the discursive logic, on its historical configuration? In order to answer this question Sergey Sitar traces how the evolution of sexuality, gender differences and ethical imperatives  are reflected in the European utopian imagination of different eras.
 
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