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Set against the background of a `general crisis' that is environmental, political and social, this book examines a series of specific intersections between architecture and feminisms, understood in the plural. The collected essays and projects that make up the book follow transversal trajectories that criss-cross between ecologies, economies and technologies, exploring specific cases and positions in relation to the themes of the archive, control, work and milieu. This collective intellectual labour can be located amidst a worldwide depletion of material resources, a hollowing out of political power and the degradation of constructed and natural environments. Feminist positions suggest ways of ethically coping with a world that is becoming increasingly unstable and contested. The many voices gathered here are united by the task of putting critical concepts and feminist design tools to use in order to offer experimental approaches to the creation of a more habitable world. Drawing inspiration from the active archives of feminist precursors, existing and re-imagined, and by way of a re-engagement in the histories, theories and projected futures of critical feminist projects, the book presents a collection of twenty-three essays and eight projects, with the aim of taking stock of our current condition and re-engaging in our precarious environment-worlds.

Feminism and architecture --- Architecture et femmes --- feminism --- architecture [discipline] --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Architecture --- Sociologie van het gezin. Sociologie van de seksualiteit --- Architectuur --- architectuur [vakgebied] --- feminisme --- Feminism and architecture. --- Féminisme et architecture --- Theory --- Architecture. --- Feminism --- Book

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During the second half of the 20th century, architecture and feminism have independently adopted and developed critiques of modern Western theoretical conventions and reappraised the impulse towards social reform. Beyond this parallel shift in critical perspective, how are these two seemingly disparate disciplines related? This volume addresses this question through diverse essays and projects, articles range from a definition of new possibilities for a feminist architecture to an analysis of the "Playboy" bachelor pad. Other essays include discussions of Niki de Saint-Phalle and Edith Wharton.

feminism --- gender issues --- Sociology --- Architecture --- women's studies --- Psychology --- Feminism and architecture --- Architecture and women --- Féminisme et architecture --- Architecture et femmes --- 72.01 --- Architectuurtheorie ; architectuur en feminisme --- 72 --- 396 --- Architecture and feminism --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Architectuur --- Feminisme --- Architectuur (esthetica) --- Architectuuresthetica --- Architectuur (theorie) --- Architectuurtheorie --- Feminism and architecture. --- Féminisme et architecture --- 20e siècle --- Féminisme --- Perception de l'architecture --- Femme, thème --- Etude de genre

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Buildings have always been an expression of human sexuality. In this book, architecture critic and curator Aaron Betsky takes a look at the man-made world and concludes that it is just that: made by men and not women. The structure of buildings and the layout of cities in the modern world have almost always been determined by men, and the abstract and alien order of grids and columns that has resulted imprisons us in a way of living based on repression and, in some cases, oppression. By contrast, it is women who create the interior spaces within these man-created environments. Comfortable, beautiful, seductive, and logical, these interiors act as areas of escape, self-definition, and sometimes even revelation. Drawing on a wide range of architectural examples, from African mud huts to modern apartment complexes, Betsky explores what effects this division of architectural labor has had on our sensibilities and, indeed, on how we relate to one another as men and women. He believes that although it has always been thus, we do not have to live within this dichotomy between the exterior and the interior, the made and the lived, the masculine and the feminine, forever. It is possible, says Betsky, to create "spaces of liberation, spaces in which we can re-construct our selves and our world."

Gender identity --- Architecture and women. --- Feminism and architecture --- Architecture and society. --- Identité sexuelle --- Architecture et femmes --- Féminisme et architecture --- Architecture et société --- Architecture and women --- Architecture and society --- Identité sexuelle --- Féminisme et architecture --- Architecture et société --- Gender identity.

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How well do our designed environments - the places and spaces where we live, work and play - meet our aesthetic and functional needs? Increasingly, the distinction between the spaces considered public and private or work and home are becoming more blurred. As a result, innovative designs are needed to meet the challenges of our ever-changing environment. Our streets, parks, dwellings and tools are designed to a ""one-size-fits-all"" standard, and the responses of the design community to meet diverse needs have been mixed at best. This work offers feminist critiques of these inadequate design standards, and suggests ideas, projects and programmes for change. Each contributor asks how we might think differently and more inclusively about human needs in the environments in which we live and work. The interdisciplinary essays reflect the writers' diverse fields - architecture, planning, industrial and graphic design, and architectural, urban and design history. Essays cover such subjects as rethinking the American city, graphic design and the urban landscape, working at home, special needs in housing, theories of women and design, redesigning architectural education, and a photoessay on industrial designs. A review essay of the literature in these fields rounds out the collection.

architectuur --- feminisme --- feminism --- gender issues --- Architecture --- women's studies --- architecture [discipline] --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Psychology --- Feminism and architecture --- -design --- 745 --- Architecture and feminism --- CAD, design en industriële vormgeving --- Féminisme et architecture --- Féminisme et architecture --- design --- Feminism --- Spatial planning --- Cities --- Design --- Housing --- Book --- Féminisme

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Regency [British] --- feminism --- Architecture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- architecture [object genre] --- anno 1800-1899 --- London --- Gender identity --- Architecture and women. --- Feminism and architecture. --- Space (Architecture) --- Women --- Identité sexuelle --- Architecture et femmes --- Féminisme et architecture --- Espace (Architecture) --- Femmes --- History --- Social conditions --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales --- Identité sexuelle --- Féminisme et architecture --- Gender identity.