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

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2022

Women Architects and Politics

Intersections between Gender, Power Structures and Architecture in the Long 20th Century

Edited by: Mary Pepchinski and Christina Budde
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2021: Frontlist Collection

Volume 60 in the series Architekturen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839456309

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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 and Israel explore the gendered professional in the 20^th 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.

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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.
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 (2017).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction Mary Pepchinski and Christina Budde Open Access Download PDF	9
I. The Politics of Representation (1): Gender, Memory, Care
Nicht zuschütten A personal remembrance of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Irene Nierhaus Open Access Download PDF	21
Care Trouble Thinking through gendered entanglements in architecture Elke Krasny Open Access Download PDF	27
II. Women Architects and the Experience of Exile, Migration and War
Gertrud Goldschmidt Architect and Zionist Sigal Davidi Open Access Download PDF	47
“A small flock of female students” Paul Schmitthenner’s Meisterklasse in Tübingen, 1944-1945 Wolfgang Voigt Open Access Download PDF	65
Judith Stolzer-Segall A cosmopolite between Europe and Mandatory Palestine/Israel Edina Meyer-Maril Open Access Download PDF	85
Politics, Privilege and Architecture Victoria zu Bentheim und Steinfurt (1887-1961), a pioneering woman architect in the tradition of the European high nobility during the 1930s and the 1940s Karl Kiem Open Access Download PDF	97
III. Women Architects in divided Europe 1945-1990
“Ideas that may be of benefit to your own country.” Two German women architects and the American Cultural Exchange Program during the early post-war years Kerstin Renz Open Access Download PDF	109
Conservative Ideology, Progressive Design Planning SAFFA 1958 Katia Frey and Eliana Perotti Open Access Download PDF	127
“I do not assert myself.” Women architects in State Socialist Hungary Mariann Simon Open Access Download PDF	147
Maria Schwarz Architect, wife, widow Annette Krapp Open Access Download PDF	161
IV. Gender and Global Practice
Denise Scott Brown and Zaha Hadid Peripheries and centers Kathleen James-Chakraborty Open Access Download PDF	179
V. The Politics of Representation (2): Women Architects on Display
Recording and Reflecting On AAXX100AA Women in Architecture 1917-2017 Elizabeth Darling and Lynne Walker Open Access Download PDF	199
Frau Architekt Two reasons and a résumé Christina Budde Open Access Download PDF	215
About Frau Architekt Stéphanie Bouysse-Mesnage in conversation with Mary Pepchinski Stéphanie Bouysse-Mesnage and Mary Pepchinski Open Access Download PDF	231
VI. Engaging the Academy, Challenging the Profession
Making Difference Reflections on teaching “Architectures of Gender” Torsten Lange and Gabrielle Schaad Open Access Download PDF	243
Introducing Gender and Spatial Theory to the Technical University of Darmstadt Donna J. Drucker Open Access Download PDF	261
A Gendered Profession Reflections on an experiment Harriet Harriss and Ruth Morrow Open Access Download PDF	275
Authors Open Access Download PDF	285

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 290
Keywords: Gender; Politics; Architectural Education; Architectural History; Care Studies; Museum Studies; Society; Civil Society; Gender Studies; Gender History

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Published: September 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839456309