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Women and Architectural History: The Monstrous Regiment Then and Now book cover

1st Edition

Women and Architectural History The Monstrous Regiment Then and Now

Edited By Dana Arnold Copyright 2025
232 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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SAHGB Colvin Prize Commendation 2025 In this book, prominent architectural historians, who happen to be women, reflect on their practice and the intervention this has made in the discipline. Of particular concern are the ways in which feminine subjectivities have been embodied in the discourses of architectural history. Each of the chapters examines the author’s own position and the... Read more

1. Assembling the Monstrous Regiment

Dana Arnold

Part 1 (Auto)Biographies

2. Refracting Feminine Subjectivities Through Space, Time, and Architectural History

Dana Arnold

3. Maude & Me

Annmarie Adams

4. Looking Back: Small Spaces as Countermapping Architectural History

Swati Chattopadhyay

Part 2 Spatial Position and Temporality

5. Against the Grain: Women Architects Rereading and Reimagining the Archive and Monograph

Mary N. Woods

6. In Plain Sight: Women In and Around the Archive

Elizabeth Darling

7. Making the Zaha Hadid Foundation

Jane Pavitt

Part 3 Social and Cultural Flows

8. Feminist Architectural History 2.0

Alice T. Friedman and Nora Wendl

9. Expanding Agency: Ethel Power, House Beautiful, and the Writing of the History of American Architecture

Kathleen James‑Chakraborty

Part 4 Spatial Experience

10. Beyond the Walls: Traversing the Boundaries of Architectural History

Elizabeth McKellar

11. Looking Softly at Architectural History: Eroding the Hegemony of Formalism

Joan Coutu

Afterword

12. Afterword

Nancy Stieber

Biography

Dana Arnold is Professor of Art and Cultural Heritage at the Sainsbury Institute, University of East Anglia. Her work focuses on histories and historiographies of architecture and urbanism in relation to social and cultural theory. She is the author of The Georgian Country House: Architecture, Landscape and Society (1998); Re‑presenting the Metropolis (2000); Reading Architectural History (2002); Rural Urbanism: London Landscapes in the Early Nineteenth Century (2006); The Spaces of the Hospital: Spatiality and Urban Change in London 1680–1820 (2013); and Architecture and Ekphrasis: Space, Time and the Embodied Description of the Past (2020). Her most recent book British Architecture: A very short introduction, was published in 2024.

"Its essays by female historians on their work and approaches reflect on what architectural history can and should be, and form a significant work of reference as well as a valuable teaching resource."

Judges, SAHGB Colvin Prize

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