Architecture and Feminism

Bachelard's House Revisited: Toward a New Poetics of Space

“…In the field of cultural studies, gender and queer theory have questioned the dominant masculine, heterosexual point of view in our culture, a point of view that obscured hidden conflicts and alternative lifestyles. Their critique proved of course especially relevant for the analysis of modern domesticity, as a crucial factor in the construction of cultural identities (see, among others, Coleman et al 1996;Rendell et al 2000;Heynen and Baydar 2005). In his Poétique, the imaginary Bachelard discusses implicitly affirms the gendered perspective of the home as a cozy shelter, a safe haven against the frenzy of the outside world.…”

Trialectics of Migrant and Global Representation: Real, Imaginary, and Online Spaces of Empowerment in Cybermohalla

“…This scholarship engages architecture being productive of gender identity and focuses on built social environments of communities to reveal embedded assumptions of gender and sexuality (Coleman et al, 1996). As Coleman et al note, this perspective engenders an exploration of architectural spaces (i.e., the design of houses, living spaces, or buildings, and their environment with lit streets or alleys) that privilege both architectural practice as well as the experiential act of inhabiting built spaces.…”

“…We ground our study in feminist spatial theorizing that recently has shifted attention to contemporary urbanism, that is, ''to everyday life within the built (socially produced) environment of the city, and to the philosophy, epistemology, and cultural politics of spatiality'' (Soja, 1996b, p. 108). To explore the forms of marginalization and historically embedded oppression from this theoretical center, we also draw on feminist architectural critiques (Coleman, Danze, & Henderson, 1996) alongside cultural analyses of globalization, marginalization, and analytic borderlands that define developing urban landscapes (Appadurai, 1996;Sassen, 1998).…”

Para além da disciplinaridade e da dicotomia de gênero? A contribuição da praxeologia de Pierre Bourdieu para estudos de gênero em arquitetura e urbanismo

“…Na linha de Teoria, a partir dos anos 90 destacam-se os livros Architecture from without: theoretical framings for a new practice (Agrest, 1991), Sexuality and space (Colomina, 1992), Architecture and Feminism (Coleman et al, 1996) e The Sex of architecture (Agrest et al, 1996). Estes escritos, embalados pela abordagem pós- teorias críticas e feministas de disciplinas afins como psicanálise, filosofia e estudos culturais, produziu-se uma história da arquitetura crítica de como patriarcalismo e sexismo produzem arquitetura.…”