Sex of Architecture

by Agrest, Diana

• ISBN13: 9780810926837
• ISBN10: 0810926830
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 8
Foreword	p. 10
Introduction	p. 11
"Other" Spaces and "Others"	p. 15
Missing Objects	p. 29
Present Tense	p. 41
The Return of the Repressed: Nature	p. 49
The Case of the Death of Nature: A Mystery	p. 69
Female Fetish Urban Form	p. 77
Crimes in and of the City: The Femme Fatale as Urban Allegory	p. 97
Investigating the City: Detective Fiction as Urban Interpretation	p. 119
Gendered Spaces in Colonial Algiers	p. 127
La Donna e Mobile: Agoraphobia, Women, and Urban Space	p. 141
"Women Internet" vs. the "Space of Tyranny"	p. 157
The Matter of Matter: A Longing for Gravity	p. 161
Battle Lines: E.1027	p. 167
Colomina's Web	p. 183
Mirror Images: Technology, Consumption, and the Representation of Gender in American Architecture since World War II	p. 191
Through the Looking Glass	p. 211
Not a Muse: The Client's Role at the Rietveld Schroder House	p. 217
Housing for a Postmodern World	p. 233
Claiming the Public Space: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo	p. 241
The Politics of Underestimation	p. 251
Confessions in Public Space	p. 263
Diversity by Design: Feminist Reflections on the Future of Architectural Education and Practice	p. 273
Resisting the Patriarchal Norms of Professional Education	p. 287
The Pen Is Mightier Than the Building: Writing on Architecture 1850-1940	p. 295
Notes on the Contributors	p. 309
Index	p. 314
Photograph Credits	p. 320
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