Gender Space Architecture

Author: Iain Borden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134692056
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. This collection marks a seminal point in gender and architecture, both summarizing core debates and pointing toward new directions and discussions for the future.

Gender Studies in Architecture

Author: Dörte Kuhlmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134069235
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
Analyzing a range of ideas from biological, evolutionary and anthropological theories to a variety of feminist, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and constructivist discourses, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the problematics of gender and power in architectural and urban design. Topics range from conceptions of postulated matriarchal architecture in Old Europe to contemporary technologies of control; from the mechanisms of gaze to architectural performatives; from the under-representation of women in the planning profession to the integration of gender issues to the curriculum. The particular strengths of the book lie in its inclusiveness and critical analysis. It is not a partisan defence of feminism or any other theory, but a critical introduction to the issues relating to gender. Moreover, the conclusions reach beyond a narrow gender studies perspective to social and ethical considerations that are unavoidable in any responsible architectural or urbanistic practice. With its broad range and balanced analysis of different theories, the book is suitable as an overview of gender studies in architecture and useful for any designer who is concerned with the social effects of the built environment.

Pursuit of Pleasure

Author: Jane Rendell
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567405362
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
The Pursuit of Pleasure presents the figures of the rambler and the cyprian, the Eighteenth Century precursors to the Parisian flGneur and prostitute. The urban spaces traced by these figures were the clubs, sporting venues, operas, assembly rooms, streets and arcades of central London.Drawing on critical theory, geography and philosophy, The Pursuit of Pleasure extends and critiques the discipline of architectural history from a feminist perspective. The gendering of public space is considered to be a complex and shifting series of moves and looks between men and women, constructed and represented through spatial and social relations of consumption, display and exchange.Illustrated with contemporary prints and drawings, The Pursuit of Pleasure is an extraordinarily rich analysis of the gendered issues of public space at the birth of the modern metropolis.

Gendered Spaces

Author: Daphne Spain
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807843574
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
The history of spatial segregation at home and in the workplace and how it reinforces women's inequality.

Sexuality & Space

Author: Beatriz Colomina
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781878271082
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
"Both timely and well worth the time."-Thomas Keenan, Newsline. aia Award Winner & Oculus Bestseller.

Negotiating Domesticity

Author: Hilde Heynen
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415341394
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
A series of essays to challenge and stimulate, examining the links between gender, domesticity and architecture from a number of different perspectives and disciplines.

A Gendered Profession

Author: James Benedict Brown
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000701638
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
The issue of gender inequality in architecture has been part of the profession’s discourse for many years, yet the continuing gender imbalance in architectural education and practice remains a difficult subject. This book seeks to change that. It provides the first ever attempt to move the debate about gender in architecture beyond the tradition of gender-segregated diagnostic or critical discourse on the debate towards something more propositional, actionable and transformative. To do this, A Gendered Profession brings together a comprehensive array of essays from a wide variety of experts in architectural education and practice, touching on issues such as LGBT, age, family status, and gender biased awards.

Gender, Space and Experience at the Renaissance Court

Author: Maria F. Maurer
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9048536685
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Book Description
Gender, Space, and Experience at the Renaissance Court investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy. It examines the ceremonial use and artistic reception of the Palazzo Te from the arrival of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1530 to the Sack of Mantua in 1630. This book further proposes that we conceptualise the built environment as a performative space, a space formed by the gendered relationships and actors of its time, asserting that the Palazzo Te was constituted by the gendered behaviors of sixteenth-century courtiers, but it was not simply a passive receptor of gender performance. Through its multivalent form and ceremonial function, Maria F. Maurer argues that the palace was an active participant in the construction and perception of femininity and masculinity in the early modern court.

Making Space

Author: Matrix
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : es
Pages : 162

Book Description
Los presupuestos sexistas acerca de la vida familiar y el papel de la mujer se han introducido dentro del diseño de los edificios y las ciudades (inclusive en las construcciones mas modernas). Siete arquitectas y constructoras critican el entorno ambiental creado por los profesionales masculinos y muestran como las diseñadoras y consumidoras pueden trabajar juntas. Hablan de sus luchas para lograr un reconocimiento profesional, los intentos por mejorar el diseño de las casas para las clases trabajadoras en el periodo de entreguerras y de los experimentos, tales como restaurantes comunales durante la segunda guerra mundial, que pusieron en cuestion la convencion de que el lugar de la mujer esta en el hogar.

Gender Space Architecture

Author: Iain Borden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134692064
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 449