The sex of architecture

The sex of architecture / editors, Diana Agrest, Patricia Conway, Leslie Kanes Weisman.

This book brings together 24 provocative texts that collectively express the power & diversity of women's views on architecture today. It presents a dialogue among women historians, theorists, etc, concerned with critical issues in architecture & urbanism.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Agrest, Diana, Conway, Patricia, Weisman, Leslie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1996.
Subjects:
Architecture and women.
Table of Contents:
  • "Other" spaces and "others" / Mary Mcleod
  • Missing objects / Catherine Ingraham
  • Present tense / Diane Lewis
  • Return of the repressed : nature / Diana Agrest
  • Case of the death of nature : a mystery / Diana Balmori
  • Female fetish urban form / Ann Bergren
  • Crimes in and of the city : the Femme fatale as urban allegory / M. Christine Boyer
  • Investigating the city : detective fiction as urban interpretation / Margaret Crawford
  • Gendered spaces in colonial Algiers / Zeynep Çilek
  • La donna è mobile : agoraphobia, women, and urban space / Esther Da Costa Meyer
  • "Women internet" vs. the "space of tyranny" / Lauretta Vinciarelli
  • Matter of matter : a longing for gravity / Jennifer Bloomer
  • Battle lines : E.1027 / Beatriz Colomina
  • Colomina's web / Sylvia Lavin
  • Mirror images : technology, consumption, and the representation of gender in American architecture since World War II / Joan Ockman
  • Through the looking glass / Denise Scott Brown
  • Not a muse : the client's role at the Rietveld Schröder house / Alice T. Friedman
  • Housing for a postmodern world / Ghislaine Hermanuz
  • Claiming the public space : the mothers of Plaza de Mayo / Susana Torre
  • Politics of underestimation / Marion Weiss
  • Confessions in public space / Lynne Breslin
  • Diversity by design : feminist reflections on the future of architectural education and practice / Leslie Kanes Weisman
  • Resisting the patriarchal norms of professional education / Sharon E. Sutton
  • Pen is mightier than the building : writing on architecture 1850-1940 / Diane Favro.

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