Architecture and Feminisms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture and Feminisms write by Hélène Frichot. This book was released on 2017-11-10. Architecture and Feminisms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Le Corbusier write by Flora Samuel. This book was released on 2004-04-02. Le Corbusier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a revealing book which, for the first time, investigates the central influence of feminism in the work of Le Corbusier; one of the most important and revered architects of all time. The text covers Le Corbusier’s upbringing and training and sets this in the context of the cultural atmosphere of his time, covering issues of gender and religion. It reveals aspects of his private life such as personal relationships, which have barely been explored before as no biography currently exists. Furthermore, the author reveals, for the first time in print, a previously undiscovered and unpublished Le Corbusier building, making this book an incredibly significant addition to existing literature on the great man. In short, the new evidence and theories contained in this volume amount to major revelations about this hugely revered and central architectural figure of the 20th Century.
Feminist Practices
Feminist Practices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminist Practices write by Lori A. Brown. This book was released on 2016-04-15. Feminist Practices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women continue to be extremely under-represented in the architectural profession. Despite equal numbers of male and female students entering architectural studies, there is at least 17-25% attrition of female students and not all remaining become practicing architects. In both the academic and the professional fields of architecture, positions of power and authority are almost entirely male, and as such, the profession is defined by a heterosexual, Eurasian male perspective. This book argues that it is vital for all architectural students and practitioners to be exposed to a diversity of contemporary architectural practices, as this might provide a first step into broadening awareness and transforming architectural engagement. It considers the relationships between feminist methodologies and the various approaches toward design and their impact upon our understanding and relationship to the built environment. In doing so, this collection challenges two conventional ideas: firstly, the definition of architecture and secondly, what constitutes a feminist practice. This collection of up-and-coming female architects and designers use a wide range of local and global examples of their work to question different aspects of these two conventional ideas. While focusing on feminist perspectives, the book offers insights into many different issues, concerns and interpretations of architecture, proposing through these types of engagement, architecture can become more culturally, politically and environmentally relevant. This 'next generation' of architects claim feminism as their own and through doing so, help define what feminism means and how it is evolving in the 21st century.
Architecture and Feminism
Architecture and Feminism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture and Feminism write by Elizabeth Danze. This book was released on 1996. Architecture and Feminism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How are the seemingly disparate disciplines of architecture and feminism 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.
Design and Feminism
Design and Feminism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Design and Feminism write by Joan Rothschild. This book was released on 1999. Design and Feminism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The distinction between the spaces considered public and private or work and home is becoming more blurred. 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. Design and Feminism offers feminist critiques of these inadequate design standards, and suggest ideas, projects, and programs for change.
