{"product_id":"the-house-is-not-a-prison-on-the-queerness-of-architecture-9781988111612","title":"The House Is (Not) a Prison: On the Queerness of Architecture","description":"\u003cb\u003eExplores the relationship between architecture and queerness in modernity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Where is sexuality, especially queer sexuality, in architecture? \u003ci\u003eThe House Is (Not) a Prison\u003c\/i\u003e approaches this question from a radically new position, looking not for a theory of queer architecture, but rather for a queer theory of architecture. Starting from a reconsideration of the foundational principles of architecture, Colin Ripley demonstrates how the division of space steals land from the commons and forces separations and categories. In the process, queerness is created as an indispensable outside to architecture's disciplinary interior. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Tracing the evolution of architecture from the late Enlightenment to the postwar twentieth century, Ripley shows how distinctions between the prison and the domestic home began to collapse in nineteenth-century initiatives to rehabilitate the criminalized and blurred even further with the popularization of glass and concrete in the modernist cell. He examines sites such as Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon, Guillaume-Abel Blouet's Mettray penal colony, Fontevrault prison, Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, Philip Johnson's Glass House, and the architecture of North American suburbs to better understand how structures both facilitate and regulate queer sexuality. A parallel text in the endnotes connects Jean Genet's prison-set writings to buttress the relationship between architectural features and queerness. A provocative and surprising work, with a foreword by Slavoj Zizek, \u003ci\u003eThe House Is (Not) a Prison\u003c\/i\u003e advances understandings of queer space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colin Ripley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Concordia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781988111612","brand":"Concordia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45046376693897,"sku":"9781988111612","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_99a874e0-1e0c-492a-8905-853734bd050f.jpg?v=1765398583","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-house-is-not-a-prison-on-the-queerness-of-architecture-9781988111612","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}