Architectural Historiography and Fourth Wave Feminism

Lange, Torsten; Pérez-Moreno, Lucía C.

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“…Feminist approaches to architectural history have evaluated and contextualized the contributions of women over the past 50 years (Rendell, 2012). Lange and Perez-Moreno (2020) posited four waves of feminism in architectural historiography. This work fits best in an approach they called the “recovery of biographies” focused on the contributions of women alongside their male counterparts (p. 26).…”

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“…Prejudice nourished anonymity” (Paine, 1977, p. 54). Yet, the interpretation of victimized women is currently being challenged in the literature (Lange & Perez-Moreno, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…More recent investigations address women architects’ contributions through monographs primarily highlighting women of the Modernist period (Lange & Perez-Moreno, 2020). Implicit in the dialog surrounding many of these inquiries is the superior value of modernist architecture with a lesser role played by interior design (décor-based).…”

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The Women of the Architects’ Small House Service Bureau: Contributions to the Well-Designed Single-Family House

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Recently, scholars have highlighted the contributions of female designers to the careers of their better-known male counterparts. The role of women in architecture in the early 20th century is largely relegated to the residential sector for which they were believed to be “naturally suited.” Despite this, when working alongside male architects in the residential arena, their contributions were often overlooked. The goal of this research was to identify and highlight the women behind the Architects’ Small House Service Bureau (ASHSB) and their contributions to the enterprise. The methods used for this work included a systematic literature review of the published resources of the ASHSB, which comprised seven years of The Small Home monthly publication, five plan books published by the ASHSB with regional and reprinted variations, and an analysis of 53 banker boxes of ASHSB headquarter original documents (correspondence, membership lists, policies, and marketing materials). The outcomes of the research confirm that women were involved in all aspects of the residential designs marketed and sold by the ASHSB to consumers. Women contributors were featured with innovative designs for the interiors of the houses including kitchen designs with substantial interior detailing and built-ins, materials and furnishing selections, and advice to homeowners. Articles written by men were frequently credited while significantly fewer women received attributions, leaving the majority of articles and house design descriptions unattributed and anonymous. These women are an important part of the history of interior design in North America.

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“…Prejudice nourished anonymity” (Paine, 1977, p. 54). Yet, the interpretation of victimized women is currently being challenged in the literature (Lange & Perez-Moreno, 2020).…”

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“…This notion, Jaque states, can be found both in research-based projects as well as in design projects and help us "rethink daily life as the trans-enactment of heterogeneous technologies, materialities, performativities and practices" [39] (p. 14). Within these processes, the inclusion of gender perspective allows us to implement its own tools in the analysis of existing architecture, not only by laying emphasis on the experience of women, but also by combating the relationships of power and the prevailing gender norms which feminist thinkers have criticized [40][41][42]. It also offers a constant conversation and transfer of methodologies between disciplines, such as that proposed by queer theory [43][44][45][46][47][48].…”

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Inclusive Higher Education and the Built Environment. A Research and Teaching Agenda for Gender Mainstreaming in Architecture Studies

2021

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As one of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda, gender equality is a necessary foundation for a peaceful and sustainable world. The integration of the frameworks of analysis and action provided by gender perspective into the design, development and assessment of any program related to university education, research and management is essential to the fulfillment of both quality higher education and an effective transfer of knowledge and values to society. Starting from a standpoint of commitment to this progressive outlook, this essay focuses on the specific case of the University of Alicante, Spain, and on its Architecture studies. It seeks to underline the achievements of this institution in the fostering of a critical spirit and the empathy of its students by way of the implementation of gender perspective as a tool for the conception of complex, diverse and integrating projects, aligned to the objective of mutual care between people and the environment. This is crucial for the co-education of future generations of architects, who will play a central role in the definition of new practices and policies related to space and materials, which favor a more sustainable, inclusive and caring scenario for both humans and non-humans.

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“…Women studies in architecture have been developing both quantitatively and qualitatively over the last five decades. They have been inspired by different ways of thinking, which more or less coincide with the sequence of four waves in feminism (CHAMBERLAIN, 2017;HEYNEN, 2011;LANGE and PÉREZ-MORENO, 2020). It is thus possible to distinguish four 'paradigms': difference thinking, equality thinking, constructionist thinking and intersectionalist thinking.…”

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Narrating Women Architects’ Histories. Paradigms, Dilemmas, and Challenges.

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2022

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Women studies in architecture have been inspired by different ways of thinking, which can be summarized in four ‘paradigms’: difference thinking, equality thinking, constructionist thinking and intersectionalist thinking. By revising seminal books, articles and exhibitions, this paper explores the historiographical dilemmas and challenges that narrating women architects’ histories involves, focusing on two of the most relevant ones: the question of authorship and the canonical understanding of the architecture as the design of new architectural objects. The paper discusses the impact of women studies in art on the methodologies used in narrating women architects, but also presents the differences that should be taken into account when exploring the work of women artist and architects.

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Architectural Historiography and Fourth Wave Feminism

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

The Women of the Architects’ Small House Service Bureau: Contributions to the Well-Designed Single-Family House

The Women of the Architects’ Small House Service Bureau: Contributions to the Well-Designed Single-Family House

Inclusive Higher Education and the Built Environment. A Research and Teaching Agenda for Gender Mainstreaming in Architecture Studies

Narrating Women Architects’ Histories. Paradigms, Dilemmas, and Challenges.

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