Architecture and feminism

by Coleman, Debra Danze, Elizabeth Henderson, Carol

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Title Statements

Full title :Architecture and feminism / editors, Debra Coleman, Elizabeth Danze, Carol Henderson.

Summary

How are the seemingly disparate disciplines of architecture and feminism related? This volume addresses this question through diverse essays and projects, articles range from a definition of new possibilities for a feminist architecture to an analysis of the "Playboy" bachelor pad.

Over the last several decades, feminists and architects have independently developed critiques of modern Western assumptions and cultural practices. Architecture and Feminism addresses the intersection of these two seemingly disparate fields through a lively and diverse collection of essays and projects, including interdisciplinary investigations of literature, social history, home economics, and art history.Articles examine such varied topics as Niki de Saint-Phalles exuberant building-sized female sculpture Hon, the aesthetics and politics of the Playboy bachelor pad, Edith Wharton's ideas on domestic architecture, and the Legend of Master Manole, a disquieting Eastern European folktale that prescribes the ritual entombment of women in the walls of buildings, while visual projects take well-known structures by Philip Johnson and Louis Sullivan as points of departure for a feminist reading of architectural history. Rather than presenting a single, didactic position, this collection offers a range of fresh voices to describe the cross-connections and shared concerns between architecture and feminism.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1996.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Princeton Architectural Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1996.

Notes

"Yale Publications on Architecture."

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 255 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1568980434, 9781568980430
oclc:ocm35292708
LC Classification:NA2543.F45
Dewey Decimal:720/.82

Introduction / Debra Coleman -- Everyday and "other" spaces / Mary McLeod -- The knowledge of the body and the presence of history: toward a feminist architecture / Deborah Fausch -- see angel touch / Amy Landesberg and Lisa Quatrale -- Project manual for the Glass House / Christine S.E. Magar -- The Walled-Up Bride: an architecture of eternal return / Manuela Antiniu -- Edith Wharton, the decoration of houses, and gender in turn-of-the-century America / Vanessa Chase -- The lair of the bachelor / George Wagner -- A revolution in the woman's sphere: Grete Lihotzky and the Frankfurt kitchen / Susan Henderson.

Subjects

Arkitektur Arkitektur og samfunn Arkitekturteori Bouwkunst Feminism and architecture Feminisme Féminisme et architecture Gender studies kvinner Kvinner og arkitektur Sex discrimination against women Sex role in the work environment Sexual division of labor Space (Architecture)