Title & Author:

Feminist practices : interdisciplinary approaches to women in architecture / edited by Lori A. Brown.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011.

Description:

xxii, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Critical spatial practices : setting out a feminist approach to some modes and what matters in architecture / Jane Rendell -- Inventing feminist practices : women and building in fin-de-siècle Berlin / Despina Stratigakos -- Breathing spaces : whispering walls, feminist spatial practice / Cynthia I. Hammond -- Blazing inter alia : tropes of a feminist creative practice / Julieanna Preston -- Sister² / Kyna Leski -- Interior-scapes / Lois Weinthal -- Materializing the tiger in the archive : creative research and architectural history / Lilian Chee -- The pedagogy and practice of "placing space: architecture, action, dimension" / Ronit Eisenbach and Rebecca Krefting -- Axis Mundi Brazil Studio / Meghan Walsh -- Fishing for ghosts / Margarita McGrath -- Gender roles at the intersection of public and private spheres : transformation from detached house to apartment in Izmir, Turkey / Özlem Erdoğdu Erkarslan -- Courtyards / Maghel Arya -- Politicizing the female body / Lori A. Brown -- Home grown / Kim Steele -- Urban threads / Janet McGaw -- Preparations for the afterlife : barking town square muf architecture/art / Liza Fior and Katherine Clarke -- La marqueta mile : East Harlem, New York / Meta Brunzema.

Summary:

Brown (Syracuse U.) explains that this book started first as an exhibition that traveled to many schools of architecture in the US and Australia as a means of raising awareness about "...ways feminist methodologies impact design and our relationship to the built environment." She initially conceived the project after working as an architect in New York and observing that despite the large percentages of women in architecture school, a much smaller percentage become practitioners (and the statistics are worse for minorities). The volume consists of 19 lively contributions offering examples of work and approaches that incorporate feminist influences. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Resources:
E-book - Full text from EBL

ISBN:

9781409421177 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1409421171 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781409421184 (ebook)
140942118X (ebook)

Subject:

Feminism and architecture.
Architecture and society.
Féminisme et architecture.
Architecture et société.
Architektur
Feminismus
Gesellschaft.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Brown, Lori A. (Professor of architecture)
Brown, Lori A.

Interdisciplinary approaches to women in architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 276562
Call No.: BIB 211193
Status: Available