Gender and Architecture
History, Interpretation and Practice
1st Edition
Published on 20. April 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
VI, 218 pages
978-0-471-98533-4 (ISBN)
Description
Until now, the study of gender and architecture has been confined to femininity and the 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.
More details
Edition
1., Aufl.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 24.3 cm
Width: 16.9 cm
Weight
484 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-98533-4 (9780471985334)
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Introduction: women on top - Lady Margaret Beaufort's building at Christ's College, Cambridge; "O Tower Most Worthy of Praise!" the paradox of freedom, captivity and gender in literary architecture of sixteenth-century France; "Masculine and Unaffected" - Inigo Jones and classicism; metaphors of the body - virginity and female aristocratic convent churches in Baroque Naples; gender and the architect - women clients of French architects during the enlightenment; ramblers and cyprians - mobility, visuality, and the gendering of architectural space; harems and hotels - the Orientalisation of the subject in Ottoman domestic space; through the looking glass darkly - gendering the primitive and the significance of constructed space in the practice of the brucke.