1st Edition
Women's Places Architecture and Design 1860-1960
200 Pages
57 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
57 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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What was different about the environments that women created as architects, designers and clients at a time when they were gaining increasing political and social status in a male world? Through a series of case studies, Women's Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960 , examines in detail the professional and domestic spaces created by women who had money and the opportunity to achieve their... Read more
Introduction 1. Questions of Identity: Women, Architecture and the Aesthetic Movement 2. Creating 'The New Room'. The Hall sisters of West Wickham and Richard Norman Shaw 3. Elsie de Wolfe and her Female Clients, 1905-1915: Gender, Class and the Professional Interior Decorator 4. Your Place or Mine? The Client's Contribution to Domestic Architecture 5. Architecture and Reputation: Eileen Grey, Gender, And Modernism 6. Marie Dormoy and the Architectural Conversation 7. A House of her Own. Dora Gordine and Dorich House (1936) 8. Elizabeth Denby or Maxwell Fry? A Matter of Attribution?
Biography
Brenda Martin, Penny Sparke
'An interesting book.' -Kosta Mathéy, Trialog, 2004
