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Diversity in the NYSID Book Collection: Sexual Orientation

Sexuality

Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York

by: Donald Albrecht

*Learn about New York's counterculture artistic communities that continue to influence design today!*

Building Sex: Men, Women, Architecture, and the construction of Sexuality 

by; Aaron Betsky 

 

Queer Space: Architecture and Same-Sex Desire

by: Aaron Betsky

Queering the Interior

by: Andrew Gorman-Murray and Matt Cook 

 

Bachelors of a Different Sort

by: John Potvin

Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction

by: Christopher Bascom Rawlins

*This book focuses on the works of Horace Gifford, who "executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New York’s Fire Island from a sleepy bohemian backwater into a wildly permissive ‘oasis of free love.'"

 

Appropriated Interiors

by: Deborah Schneiderman