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Buildings have always been an expression of human sexuality. In this book, architecture critic and curator Aaron Betsky takes a look at the man-made world and concludes that it is just that: made by men and not women. The structure of buildings and the layout of cities in the modern world have almost always been determined by men, and the abstract and alien order of grids and columns that has resulted imprisons us in a way of living based on repression and, in some cases, oppression. By contrast, it is women who create the interior spaces within these man-created environments. Comfortable, beautiful, seductive, and logical, these interiors act as areas of escape, self-definition, and sometimes even revelation. Drawing on a wide range of architectural examples, from African mud huts to modern apartment complexes, Betsky explores what effects this division of architectural labor has had on our sensibilities and, indeed, on how we relate to one another as men and women. He believes that although it has always been thus, we do not have to live within this dichotomy between the exterior and the interior, the made and the lived, the masculine and the feminine, forever. It is possible, says Betsky, to create "spaces of liberation, spaces in which we can re-construct our selves and our world."

Gender identity --- Architecture and women. --- Feminism and architecture --- Architecture and society. --- Identité sexuelle --- Architecture et femmes --- Féminisme et architecture --- Architecture et société --- Architecture and women --- Architecture and society --- Identité sexuelle --- Féminisme et architecture --- Architecture et société --- Gender identity.

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Discrimination by Design is a fascinating account of the complex social processes and power struggles involved in building and controlling space. Leslie Kanes Weisman offers a new framework for understanding the spatial dimensions of gender and race as well as class. She traces the social and architectural histories of the skyscraper, maternity hospital, department store, shopping mall, nuclear family dream house, and public housing high rise. Her vivid prose is based on exhaustive research and documents how each setting, along with public parks and streets, embodies and transmits the privileges and penalties of social caste. In presenting feminist themes from a spatial perspective, Weisman raises many new and important questions. When do women feel unsafe in cities, and why? Why do so many homeless people prefer to sleep on the streets rather than in city-run shelters? Why does the current housing crisis pose a greater threat to women than to men? How would dwellings, communities, and public buildings look if they were designed to foster relationships of equality and environmental wholeness? And how can we begin to imagine such a radically different landscape? In exploring the answers, the author introduces us to the people, policies, architectural innovations, and ideologies working today to shape a future in which all people matter. Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, Discrimination by Design is an invaluable and pioneering contribution to our understanding of the issues of our time--health care for the elderly and people with AIDS, homelessness, racial justice, changing conditions of work and family life, affordable housing, militarism, energy conservation, and the preservation of the environment. This thoroughly readable book provides practical guidance to policymakers, architects, planners, and housing activists. It should be read by all who are interested in understanding how the built environment shapes the experiences of their daily lives and the cultural assumptions in which they are immersed.

Architecture and women --- Feminism and architecture --- Architecture et femmes --- Féminisme et architecture --- Architectuurkritiek ; feministische --- 72.01 --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Féminisme et architecture --- Women and architecture --- Sociology of environment --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Environmental planning --- Architecture --- architecture [discipline] --- sex discrimination --- women [female humans] --- United States --- Women --- -Women and architecture --- Architecture and women - United States --- Architecture et femmes - États-Unis --- United States of America --- -Architecture and women --- Feminist criticism --- Spatial planning --- Housing --- Book --- -Sociology of environment

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Sélectionnée et introduite par la chercheuse et militante Stéphanie Dadour, la présente anthologie propose la traduction inédite d'une douzaine de textes représentatifs de l'engagement théorique et professionnel de plusieurs générations de féministes. Ces écrits émanant principalement de la scène anglo-américaine de l'architecture dans les trois dernières décennies du XXe. Comme tant d'autres, le milieu de l'architecture est un terrain d'inégalités entre les hommes et les femmes. Majoritaires dans les effectifs d'étudiants, elles sont encore largement sous-représentées dans l'exercice libéral et salarié de la profession et souffrent d'importants écarts de rémunération par rapport à leurs confrères masculins. Si aujourd'hui, dans le sillage du mouvement #metoo, la situation semble évoluer, cela fait pourtant plus d'un demi-siècle que des voix de femmes architectes s'élèvent : pour renouveler la manière dont l'histoire de l'architecture est écrite afin de réévaluer certains objets et certaines figures, négligés par l'historiographie dominante ; pour réfléchir à une architecture qui traduirait spécifiquement les théories féministes, de l'échelle de la maison à celle de la ville ; pour dénoncer la domination masculine dans l'enseignement, la pratique et les instances de consécration et revendiquer des formes alternatives de la pratique architecturale, nourries par l'expérience particulière des femmes et des minorités. Sélectionnée et introduite par la chercheuse et militante Stéphanie Dadour, la présente anthologie propose la traduction inédite d'une douzaine de textes importants, peu connus en France, représentatifs de l'engagement théorique, politique et professionnel de plusieurs générations de féministes. La lecture de ces écrits émanant principalement de la scène anglo-américaine de l'architecture dans les trois dernières décennies du XXe siècle ne peut qu'enrichir les débats d'aujourd'hui et armer les luttes qui viennent. Ils parleront aussi bien au milieu architectural qu'au milieu féministe.

Women architects --- Femmes architectes --- History --- Histoire --- History. --- Théorie féministe --- Architecture et femmes --- Féminisme --- Rapports sociaux --- Architecture and women --- Feminist theory --- Théorie féministe. --- Architecture et femmes. --- Femmes architectes. --- Femme, thème --- Théorie de l'architecture --- Pratique architecturale --- Etude de genre --- Architecture and women. --- Théorie féministe.

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gender issues --- Sociology --- women [female humans] --- Architecture --- Psychology --- Architecture, Domestic --- Architecture and women --- Architects and patrons. --- Dwellings --- Architecture domestique --- Habitations --- History --- Histoire --- Architecture et femmes --- Architectes et mécènes --- Architects and patrons --- Architectes et mécènes --- Sociology of environment --- Domiciles --- Homes --- Houses --- One-family houses --- Residences --- Residential buildings --- Single-family homes --- Buildings --- House-raising parties --- Household ecology --- Housing --- Architecture, Rural --- Domestic architecture --- Home design --- Rural architecture --- Villas --- Women and architecture --- Women --- Patrons and architects --- Art patrons --- Architecture, Domestic - United States - History - 20th century --- Architecture and women - United States - History - 20th century --- Dwellings - History - 20th century --- Book

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In an effort to translate my state of mind and personal experiences into an architectural concept, I chose to design various spaces or materializations of various states of being, drawn together into a coherent structure. The result was an integrated architectural work that derives from a polyphony of cultures. These cultures communicate with each other in the designed spaces, at the same time giving an illusion of neutrality - a carte blanche. A place seemingly stripped of most political complexities, with a relationality based on human experience - a variety of cultures communicating in some third landscape. However, this romantic idea has also been the starting point for a discussion on cultural appropriation and cultural identity, shared with a few female artists and thinkers. They show the importance of opening reflective space up to contemporary discussion, of embracing critical narratives as a route to achieving a deeper understanding of our cultural conditioning. This project began with the idea to reflect on notions of reality through the individual perspective in a collective space. The investigation of personal experience within culture is echoed in the materiality of the architectural models, but also in the materiality of the various narratives of women living and creating in between cultures. Inbetween. A mélange of different architectural styles, sacrum and profanum, a trans-culture, a hybrid of civilizations. Cultural realms engaged in a dialogue. A quest for confusion, and a further quest for peace. Where is my identity now? I do not get a single answer, but a polyphony of voices.

Art --- drawings [visual works] --- architecture [discipline] --- Iranian --- architectural models --- Persian [culture] --- Sheikh Rezaei, Shervin --- Architecture and society --- Architecture and women --- 72.07 --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Women and architecture --- Women --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Social aspects --- Human factors