Gender and Architecture: History, Interpretation and Practice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471985333 ISBN 13: 9780471985334

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Synopsis

Until now, the study of gender and architecture has been confined to femininity and he present. This series of case study essays is designed with the idea that by providing a framework, gender can be further explored. This book is a historically coherent package of case studies, with the final essay bridging into the contemporary.

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Gender and Architecture makes an original contribution to the study of the impact of gender studies on architectural history. This series of articles investigates the links between the theoretical understanding of architecture and its concrete experience - both in terms of internal spaces, and the presence and effects of buildings within an urban environment. These articles open up complementary ways of thinking about the significance of gender in the production, use, and representation of architecture, and within the historiography of architectural history. Topics range from seventeenth-century Italian convents, via the representation of masculinity in seventeenth-century English classicizing architecture, and the French women as patrons of architecture in the eighteenth-century, to perceptions of the nineteenth-century Turkish harem, the gendering of space in Regency London's West End, and the rewriting of gender roles in the studios of early twentieth-century German artists. All contributions are based on new research, and offer firmly grounded historical analyses of the question of gender and its architectural ramifications.

Contributors list; Christy Anderson, Esther da Costa Meyer, Louise During, Helen Hills, Tanis Hinchcliffe, Reina Lewis, Joanne Mosley, Jane Rendell, Colin Rhodes, Richard Wrigley.

Synopsis

Gender and architecture is a growing area of teaching and research - however there are very few books devoted entirely to its study. This series of case study essays is designed with the student in mind, providing a framework where gender can be explored further. Chronologically structured over the period 1500-2000, from the birth of the modern through to the post-modern, the book looks at how architecture is gendered in terms of its profession, its uses and its meaning in the West. It also includes a contrasting essay on the Orient. The essays include contributions from literary and cultural historians as well as architectural historians, with as much attention paid to the historical analysis of masculinity as to femininity.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0471985333
• ISBN 13: 9780471985334
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Durning Louise, Wrigley Richard