Essays about: "feminine architecture"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words feminine architecture.
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1. The Atlas of Two Women: A Methodological Exploration for Seeing and Interpreting the Symptomatic Visual Motif
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : This thesis explores the under-recognised yet symptomatic visual motif of two women, a recurring theme within a vast array of pictorial examples. Its primary objective is to construct a theoretical and methodological framework capable of comprehending the multiplicity of images in the form of an image collection: The Atlas of Two Women. READ MORE
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2. The Place of Female Architecture as a Design Language : A study into the progression of the female architect and the variables of the feminine architecture in Sweden
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)Abstract : 100 years after the official acceptance of women into higher architectural education in Sweden’s technical institutions, I have tracked and summarized the progress of not just female students and female employees within the architecture industry, but also the extent of the creative space offered for women throughout the years to express their individual styles. This has been with the intention of detecting a female design language that can be read in the Swedish city, starting from Sweden’s earliest female pioneer in the late 1890s. READ MORE
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3. More Than A Helping Hand: Male Masturbatory Aids and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : In this paper, I explore the construction and articulation of heterosexual masculinity through male masturbatory aids, and how these aids manipulate and interact with heterosexual desires, pleasures and intimacies. The first chapter of this paper is given over to historically contextualising attitudes and perceptions of male masturbation and entwining this with a history of masculinity. READ MORE
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4. ‘WONDER WOMAN HAPPY MAGIC FUN SWORD GIRL SEXY! SEXY! FIGHT! FIGHT!’
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : In this thesis I explore the conceptual relationships between Parody, the body and space in via the writer Gail Simone’s version of the comic book heroine Wonder Woman. I develop a critical re-imag(e)ination of performativity, space and the body in contemporary mass culture via Gail Simone’s Wonder Woman. READ MORE
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5. CHICKIPEDIA
University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Institutionen TextilhögskolanAbstract : This paper explores the fundamental meanings of deconstruction in fashion design and has the aim to investigate deconstruction in feminine ideal. It also stresses other thoughts of deconstruction in terms of philosophy through Jacques Derrida, architecture and philosopher Peter Eisenman and how deconstruction can be applied to find parallels between its setting and the setting it is compared to. READ MORE
