Title & Author:

Women, practice, architecture : 'resigned accommodation' and 'usurpatory practice' / edited by Naomi Stead.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.

Description:

xii, 213 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1."Resigned Accommodation" and the "Usurpatory Strategies" of Women in Architecture: An Introduction / Naomi Stead -- 2. Women Architects and Their Discontents / Fiona M. Wilson -- 3. Identification Through Disidentification: A Life Course Perspective on Professional Belonging / Mary Shepard Spaeth and Katarzyna Kosmala -- 4. The Woman/Architect Distinction / Karen Burns -- 5."Nothing Else Will Do": The Call for Gender Equality in Architecture in Britain / Gill Matthewson -- 6. Hard Hats and Aprons: Pioneering Female Architects Portrayed by the Press in Puerto Rico / Norma Isa Figueroa -- 7. Limited Visibility: Portraits of Women Architects / Nicole Allan -- 8. Aptitude and Capacity: Published Views of the Australian Woman Architect / Julie Willis -- 9. Genius, Gender and Architecture: The Star System as Exemplified in the Pritzker Prize / Hilde Heynen -- 10. ZAHA: An Image of "The Woman Architect" / Igea Troiani.
Contents note continued: 11.A Cross-National Study of Accommodating and "Usurpatory" Practices by Women Architects in the UK, Spain and France / Valerie Caven, Elena Navarro-Astor and Marie Diop -- 12.A "New Institutional" Perspective on Women's Position in Architecture: Considering the Cases of Australia and Sweden / Naomi Stead -- 13. Fabrication and Ms Conduct: Scrutinising Practice through Feminist Theory / Patricia Belford.

Summary:

The image of the architect is undeniably gendered. While the male architect might be celebrated as the ideal man in Hollywood romantic comedies, blessed with practicality and creativity in equal measure to impeccable taste and an enviable lifestyle, the image of the woman architect is not so clear cut. While women have been practicing and excelling in architecture for more than a hundred years, their professional identity, as constructed in the media, is complex and sometimes contradictory. This book explores the working lives and aspirations of women in architectural practice, but more than this it explores how popular media - newspapers, magazines, and websites - serve to define and describe who a woman architect should be, what she should look like and how she should behave.

ISBN:

0415745195 (paperback)
9780415745192 (paperback)

Subject:

Women architects.
Women in mass media.
Femmes architectes.
Femmes dans les médias.
Architecture and Planning.
Arkitektur representation.
Arkitekter kvinnobilden populärkultur Australien Sverige Storbritannien Spanien Frankrike Puerto Rico 2000-talet.
Massmedia.
Feministisk teori.
Architecture representation.
Architects image of women popular culture Australia Sweden Great Britain Spain France Puerto Rico 21st century.
Mass media.
Feminist theory.
Kvinnor i massmedia.
Kvinnliga arkitekter.
Australian

Added entries:

Stead, Naomi, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296877
Call No.: BIB 243195
Status: Available