THE HOUSE OF TOXIC MASCULINITY

What could be a “toxic masculinity ?”

Maybe, paradoxically, a masculinity unsure of itself.

The typical inferiority complex generating a superiority complex.

Humanity, as a whole, in its patriarchal mode, can be described as being governed by a “toxic masculinity.”

All those men… thinking, in the Christian religion (but maybe in all three Abrahamic religions) that they were created first, and only then, from Adam’s bone, Eve.

Eve, the domesticated woman… the woman who accepted the low condition of being born from Adam’s bone.

Sad… we wonder… how many men would accept, or would have accepted, to be born from Eve’s bone, like an afterthought ?

Not many, we believe.

So of course… the toxic masculinity eliminated matriarchy and started to assert itself from indeed very old times.

FORCE – WARS – MUSCLES – INFLATED CHESTS – EXCESSIVE SELF CONFIDENCE – COCKYNESS.

And here we are, today… the global warming, the rising levels of the seas, the melting of the icebergs.

But the toxic masculinity continues.

And the war in Ukraine is the latest example.

Before, though, there were other wars… more legitimate ? Not really, no…

The thirst for oil, for POWER AND SPEED, FOR ENERGY, ENERGY, ENERGY… what about Iraq ? Was that war more legitimate ?

What about all those other wars ?

MAN continues.

The measure of all things.

ANTHROPOS.

THE PHALLIC ANTHROPOS.

THE KING.

Perhaps trembling inside with insecurities, but outwardly sending bombs, bombs, bombs.

For how long can we continue like this ?

We ask you to design the paradigmatic HOUSE OF TOXIC MASCULINITY. That masculinity that does not know itself.

That masculinity which imagines that the world was made in order for its thirst for dominance to manifest itself.

DESIGN THE HOUSE OF TOXIC MASCULINITY.

That is, the simulacrum of real masculinity.


SUBMISSION AND PARTICIPATION

We accept WORK in ANY size and MANY formats that responds to the theme.  

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Schedule

December 1, 2022
Register for Competition.  Click Here.
December 12, 2022
Submission of Work.   ICARCH posts Work Online.
December 15, 2022

Zoom Dialogue about the House of Toxic Masculinity

Benefits

Engagement with alternative creators and thinkers in architecture worldwide
Zoom presentation of all the entries and dialogue with others including ICARCH invited guests.
Work posted on ICARCH.org for many years.
Zoom dialogue posted on YouTube.
Inclusion of your name as a participant in international press releases from ICARCH.
Possible selection of your work for the 2023 ICARCH publication on 20 years of Competitions.

Prizes

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ICARCH is building the jurors who will select "best of" entries for posting online and press releases.

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