Architecture and feminism

Yale publications on architecture

Author: Debra Coleman
Secondary Author: Elizabeth Danze
ISBN: 9781568980430

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 Whartons 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 of

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publish Date: 1996

Subjects: Feminism and architecture, Architecture, Modern, Architecture / Criticism, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Women's Studies, Architecture / General, Non-Classifiable

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Architecture/Space)