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Author:   Lori A. Brown
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138270725

ISBN 10:   1138270725
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   11 October 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures, Notes on Contributors, Preface, 1. Introduction, 2. Critical Spatial Practices: Setting Out a Feminist Approach to some Modes and what Matters in Architecture, 3. Inventing Feminist Practices: Women and Building in Fin-de-Siècle Berlin, PART I: FEMINIST PRACTICES IN DESIGN, 4. Breathing Spaces: Whispering Walls, Feminist Spatial Practice, 5. Blazing Inter Alia: Tropes of a Feminist Creative Practice, 6. Sister2, 7. Interior-scapes, 8. Materializing the Tiger in the Archive: Creative Research and Architectural History, PART II: FEMINIST PRACTICES IN PEDAGOGY, 9. The Pedagogy and Practice of “Placing Space: Architecture, Action, Dimension”, 10. Axis Mundi Brazil Studio, 11. Fishing for Ghosts, PART III: FEMINIST PRACTICES IN DESIGN RESEARCH, 12. Gender Roles at the Intersection of Public and Private Spheres: Transformation from Detached House to Apartment in Izmir, Turkey, 13. Courtyards, 14. Politicizing the Female Body, 15. Home Grown, PART IV: FEMINIST PRACTICES IN COMMUNITIES, 16. Urban Threads, 17. Preparations for the Afterlife: Barking Town Square muf architecture/art, 18. La Marqueta Mile: East Harlem, New York, 19. Conclusion, Index

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'The essays in Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture illuminate the variety of contemporary design and critical responses inspired by feminism(s) and acknowledge the spatial component of all social relationships. This way, the very definition of architecture is enriched and expanded beyond the question of professional advancement for women in the design disciplines.' Susana Torre, architect and editor/curator of Women in American Architecture. A Historic and Contemporary Perspective 'Feminist Practices provides a welcome relief to the hegemony in architectural discourse. From personal investigations of the body in space, to explorations of the social, political, cultural context of design, this provocative book reveals the benefits of feminist analyses to both understand and guide the design of the built environment. Power dynamics in architectural practice, theory and criticism are revealed. Serious and carefully researched, diverse and ever-changing models are proposed in lieu of absolute assertions. And evocative exhibit installations and research projects give voice to the underrepresented and disempowered, whether by gender, class and/or race.' Roberta M. Feldman, co-author with Susan Stall of The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents' Activism in Chicago Public Housing, and Founding Director of the University of Illinois' City Design Center, USA. 'Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture explores what it means to employ feminism in design, but can the exposed design methods really be considered radical? Improvised, not-for-profit, tactical, self-reflexive, playful, ephemeral, collaborative, non-Cartesian, instinctive, interdisciplinary, embodied: just a few of the terms describing Feminist Practices excerpted from the collection of articles that make up Lori A Brown's edited volume of the same title.' The Architectural Review

'The essays in Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture illuminate the variety of contemporary design and critical responses inspired by feminism(s) and acknowledge the spatial component of all social relationships. This way, the very definition of architecture is enriched and expanded beyond the question of professional advancement for women in the design disciplines.' Susana Torre, architect and editor/curator of Women in American Architecture. A Historic and Contemporary Perspective 'Feminist Practices provides a welcome relief to the hegemony in architectural discourse. From personal investigations of the body in space, to explorations of the social, political, cultural context of design, this provocative book reveals the benefits of feminist analyses to both understand and guide the design of the built environment. Power dynamics in architectural practice, theory and criticism are revealed. Serious and carefully researched, diverse and ever-changing models are proposed in lieu of absolute assertions. And evocative exhibit installations and research projects give voice to the underrepresented and disempowered, whether by gender, class and/or race.' Roberta M. Feldman, co-author with Susan Stall of The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents' Activism in Chicago Public Housing, and Founding Director of the University of Illinois' City Design Center, USA. 'Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture explores what it means to employ feminism in design, but can the exposed design methods really be considered radical? Improvised, not-for-profit, tactical, self-reflexive, playful, ephemeral, collaborative, non-Cartesian, instinctive, interdisciplinary, embodied: just a few of the terms describing Feminist Practices excerpted from the collection of articles that make up Lori A Brown’s edited volume of the same title.' The Architectural Review

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Lori A. Brown, Associate Professor, School of Architecture , Syracuse University, USA

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