Architecture and Sex

Male Architecture? Pei's Johnson Museum

I.M. Pei, Architect - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University

Photo © Jackie Craven

Some architecture critics believe that "male" architecture is architecture that expresses heaviness, strength, or power. Something about its shape, proportions, or sheer mass shouts out, "Uh! Me Tarzan!" Or, perhaps, "Uh! Me Bill Gates!"

Architect I.M. Pei seemed to express masculine ideas when he designed the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. The building is composed of heavy angular shapes.

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