Here is an interesting quote from the article:
Symbolism[edit]
Left:
Vendome Column,
Paris. Right: One of the many penis statues of
Haesindang Park (Penis Park),
South Korea.
In art and architecture, acutely vertical buildings are often seen as a symbol of masculinity and horizontal buildings are seen as more feminine.
[26][27] The terms "phallic verticality", "phallic erectility" and "phallic brutality" have been referred to by architectural theorists, including the likes of French sociologist
Henri Lefebvre, who argued that buildings of phallic architectural type metaphorically symbolize "force, male fertility, masculine violence".
[26][28] Phallic erectility "bestows a special status on the perpendicular, proclaiming
phallocracy as the orientation of space" while
phallic brutality "does not remain abstract, for it is the brutality of political power."
[28]
Hmmmm! Maybe the phallocracy is a social construction, not instinctual.