This book argues that it is vital for all architectural students and practitioners to be exposed to a diversity of contemporary architectural practices, as this might provide a first step into broadening awareness and transforming architectural engagement. It considers the relationships between feminist methodologies and the various approaches toward design and their impact upon our understanding and relationship to the built environment. In doing so, this collection challenges two conventional ideas: firstly, the definition of architecture and secondly, what constitutes a feminist practice.
This collection of up-and-coming female architects and designers use a wide range of local and global examples of their work to question different aspects of these two conventional ideas. While focusing on feminist perspectives, the book offers insights into many different issues, concerns and interpretations of architecture, proposing through these types of engagement, architecture can become more culturally, politically and environmentally relevant. This 'next generation' of architects claim feminism as their own and through doing so, help define what feminism means and how it is evolving in the 21st century.
Lori A. Brown, Associate Professor, School of Architecture , Syracuse University, USA
Lori A. Brown Jane Rendell, Despina Stratigakos, Cynthia I. Hammond, Julieanna Preston, Kyna Leski, Lois Weinthal, Lilian Chee, Ronit Eisenbach, Rebecca Krefting, Meghan Walsh, Margarita McGrath, Özlem Erdogdu Erkarslan, Meghal Ayra, Kim Steele, Janet McGaw, Liza Fior, Katherine Clarke, Meta Brunzema.