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Marion Mahony Griffin (1871 -- 1961) was an American architect and artist, one of the first licensed female architects in the world, designer for Frank Lloyd Wrights Chicago studio, and an original member of the Prairie School of architecture. Largely heralded for her exquisite presentation drawings for both Wright and her husband, Walter Burley Griffin, Mahony was an adventurous designer in her own right, whose independent and highly original work attracted attention at a moment when architectural drawing and graphic illustration were becoming integral to the design process. This book examines new research into Mahonys life and paints a vivid portrait of a womans place among the lives and productions of some of our most noted American architects. The essays included take us on an ambitious journey from Mahonys origins in the Chicago suburbs, through her years as Wrights right-hand woman and her bohemian life with her husband in Australia whose new capital city, Canberra, she helped to plan up until her golden years in the middle of the twentieth century. Filled with richly detailed analyses of Mahonys works and including and populated by an international cast of characters, Marion Mahony Reconsidered greatly expands our knowledge of this talented, complex, and enigmatic modern architect.

Women architects --- Feminism and architecture. --- Architecture and feminism --- Architecture --- Women as architects --- Architects --- Griffin, Marion Mahony, --- Mahony, Marion, --- Feminism and architecture

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Women architects --- Feminism and architecture. --- Homosexuality and architecture. --- Femmes architectes --- Féminisme et architecture --- Homosexualité et architecture --- Gray, Eileen,

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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.