This text brings together essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. This collection marks a focal point in gender and architecture, seeking to summarize core debates and point toward new directions and discussions for the future.
This text brings together essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introd...
Over the last decade, critical theories of different kinds have had an enormous impact on many different disciplines and practices. Intersections is the first book to survey comprehensively this impact on Architecture, providing sixteen essays that intersect a particular critical theory with specific architectural ideas, projects and events. An extended essay by the editors gives an in-depth introduction to the subject. Essays range from psychoanalysis and interiors; colonialism and modern urbanism; gender and the renaissance; to heteroptopia and Las Vegas. Contributors come from...
Over the last decade, critical theories of different kinds have had an enormous impact on many different disciplines and practices. Intersections<...
Over the last decade, critical theories of different kinds have had an enormous impact on many different disciplines and practices. Intersections is the first book to survey comprehensively this impact on Architecture, providing sixteen essays that intersect a particular critical theory with specific architectural ideas, projects and events. An extended essay by the editors gives an in-depth introduction to the subject. Essays range from psychoanalysis and interiors; colonialism and modern urbanism; gender and the renaissance; to heteroptopia and Las Vegas. Contributors come from...
Over the last decade, critical theories of different kinds have had an enormous impact on many different disciplines and practices. Intersections<...
Until recently, architectural historians have focused their attention on buildings financed by wealthy patrons and designed by prestigious architects. Historical analysis has centered on the politics of this architecture and how social class has contributed to the design. Feminist historians have explored the role of women architects, and they have examined how gender difference informs architectural design. Developing these areas of research, Jane Rendell discusses how gender theory can inform the study of architecture in early nineteenth-century London. She considers the gendering of...
Until recently, architectural historians have focused their attention on buildings financed by wealthy patrons and designed by prestigious architects....
Artists have increasingly played a central role in the restructuring of cities, in the wake of de-industrialization, deregulation and privatization. This volume assesses the role of the -urban practitioner- as an emerging transdisciplinary figure.
Artists have increasingly played a central role in the restructuring of cities, in the wake of de-industrialization, deregulation and privatization. T...
