Women Architects and Politics: Intersections between Gender, Power Structures and Architecture in the Long 20th Century

by Mary Pepchinski (Editor), Christina Budde (Editor)

Overview

In the late 1960s, the feminist scholar Kate Millet broadly defined "politics" as arrangements of power which enable individuals collectively to assert authority over others. Taking this definition, case studies by scholars from Europe, Israel and the United States explore the gendered professional in the 20th century as she navigated arrangements of power including organised religion, emancipation movements, cultural norms and shifting forms of government to practice architecture. Additional contributions reflect upon power structures in contemporary architectural education, practice and history to propose other means of architectural knowledge, representation and professional activity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837656305
Publication date:	08/27/2022
Series:	Architecture
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mary Pepchinski, professor for architecture and society at the Technical University Dresden until 2021, studied at Columbia University in New York and the University of the Arts in Berlin. She researches about architecture and gender, and held guest professorships in women's and gender studies at the Technical University Graz (2002) and the University of Applied Sciences Mainz (2017-18). She was the scientific advisor to Frau Architekt. Over 100 Years of Women as Architects at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) (2017).
Christina Budde served as a curator for public architectural education at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt/Main until 2020. She studied English and politics at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Warwick (UK). At DAM her curatorial projects and publications focused on contemporary architecture, photography, and cultural education, as well as informal learning processes. In 2017 she co-curated the exhibition and catalog Frau Architekt. Over 100 Years of Women as Architects at DAM.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 9
Nicht zuschütten 21
Care Trouble 27
Gertrud Goldschmidt 47
"A small flock of female students" 65
Judith Stolzer-Segall 85
Politics, Privilege and Architecture 97
"Ideas that may be of benefit to your own country." 109
Conservative Ideology, Progressive Design 127
"I do not assert myself." 147
Maria Schwarz 161
Denise Scott Brown and Zaha Hadid 179
Recording and Reflecting 199
Frau Architekt 215
About Frau Architekt 231
Making Difference 243
Introducing Gender and Spatial Theory to the Technical University of Darmstadt 261
A Gendered Profession 275
Authors 285

Editorial Reviews

"A very good and smart book."

Christopher Long