Program in Architecture, Princeton Universityīritt Eversole, Federica Vannucchi, Margo Handwerker, Ph.D. students, the exhibition 'Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X' that was also presented at NAiM/Bureau Europa in 2010.Ĭuratorial TeamBeatriz Colomina, Director, Ph.D. In 2006-2007 she curated, with a group of Princeton Ph.D.

Playboy Architecture, 1953-1979 has been developed and curated by Professor Beatriz Colomina, Professor at Princeton University’s School of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity. Looking at the changing nature of Playboy architecture not only provides a way of understanding how Playboy’s project changed from the mid 1950s to the late 1970s it also reveals how Playboy’s idealized world became a reality that was ingrained into America’s national identity and had a massive global impact. Through an extraordinary quantity of architecture and architects featured in Playboy, the magazine played an important role in informing the public, particularly American men, about design and architecture in relation to literature, politics, art, lifestyle and fashion.

The exhibition shows how architecture was mobilized to shape a new sexual and consumer identity for the American male and how architectural taste became critical to success in the art of seduction. Playboy Architecture, 1953-1979 explores the crucial role of modern architecture- buildings, interiors, furniture, cities and product design-in constructing the Playboy imaginary.

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