1st Edition

Women, Practice, Architecture Resigned Accommodation' and 'Usurpatory Practice'

Edited By Naomi Stead Copyright 2014
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

The image of the architect is undeniably gendered. While the male architect might be celebrated as the ideal man in Hollywood romantic comedies, blessed with practicality and creativity in equal measure to impeccable taste and an enviable lifestyle, the image of the woman architect is not so clear cut. While women have been practicing and excelling in architecture for more than a hundred years,... Read more

1. Editorial   2. Keynote: Women Architects and Their Discontents  3. Identification Through Disidentification: A Life Course Perspective on Professional Belonging  4. The Woman/Architect Distinction  5. ‘‘Nothing Else Will Do’’: The Call for Gender Equality in Architecture in Britain  6. Hard Hats and Aprons: Pioneering Female Architects Portrayed by the Press in Puerto Rico  7. Limited Visibility: Portraits of Women Architects  8. Aptitude and Capacity: Published Views of the Australian Woman Architect  9. Genius, Gender and Architecture: The Star System as Exemplified in the Pritzker Prize  10. ZAHA: An Image of ‘‘The Woman Architect’’  11. A Cross-National Study of Accommodating and ‘‘Usurpatory’’ Practices by Women Architects in the UK, Spain and France  12. A ‘‘New Institutional’’ Perspective on Women’s Position in Architecture: Considering the Cases of Australia and Sweden  13. Fabrication and Ms Conduct: Scrutinising Practice Through Feminist Theory

Biography

Naomi Stead is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland, where she is a member of the Research Centre ATCH (Architecture | Theory | Criticism | History).