Essays about: "feminism and architecture"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words feminism and architecture.

  1. 1. A Public Boudoir : – Exploring Radical Feminism, Architectural History, and Publicness in the Design of a Space for Women

    University essay from Konstfack/Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign

    Author : Christine Dybing; [2023]
    Keywords : spatial design; interior architecture; design; social sustainability; feminist architecture; radical feminism; public space; publicness; architectural heritage; architectural history; transformation; borders and boundaries;

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  3. 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)

    Author : Rana Noorzadeh; [2022]
    Keywords : Women of architecture; female architects; feminine architecture; female urban planners; design language; architectural variables; feminism and architecture; gender equality; Sweden; female pioneers of architecture; Ingrid Wallberg; Agnes Magnell; Leonie Geisendorf;

    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

  4. 3. A Female-Friendly Community in Husby

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Yanshao Gu; [2022]
    Keywords : feminism; residential building; public; visible; safety; kitchen;

    Abstract : Referring from Swedish collective housing, this project is a extension from Beate Holmbakk's project Four Houses, Four women to a community for five typical women. The aim is to study if architecture can be an intervention of diffrent women identities in households situation when it is combined with the urban context of a specific site. READ MORE

  5. 4. Gardens of Compost

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Anton Lindström; [2020]
    Keywords : anthropocene; storytelling; deleuze; haraway; critical; theory; environmentalism; rhizome; SF; string figures; care; painting; feminism; dystopia; apocalypse;

    Abstract : An interrogation of architecture's prevailing myths, and a practice for how to live and die well as an architect in the Anthropocene epoch.  It is an effort to combine joyful representation and speculation (because architecture is both too serious and not nearly serious enough), with philosophy, for still possible pasts, presents and futures. READ MORE

  6. 5. President of Crimea. Constitution : Author(s) Autonomous Republic of Xena-Maria

    University essay from Konstfack/Institutionen för Konst (K)

    Author : Mariia Kulykivska; [2020]
    Keywords : Maria Kulikovska; art in exile; exile; displacement; body; borders; art and borders; migration; sculpture; performative sculpture; performance; action; live performance; objects; art of Eastern Europe; architecture; feminism; crimean artist; ukrainian artist; swedish immigrant artist; political art; installation; manifestation; Louise Bourgeois; Joseph Beuys; degenerative artists; forbidden artists; female artist; Mariia Kulikovskaya; queer art; alien art; productive alienation; Masha Kulikovska; Masha Kulikovskaya; Мария Куликовская; Маша Куликовская; Марія Куликівська; Марія Куліковська; художник в изгнании; искусство в изгнании; искусство в иммиграции; восточно европейское искусство; запрещенное искусство; запрещенные художники; дегенеративное искусство; крымская художница; украинская художница; художница-переселенка; шведские художники-иммигранты; тело; границы; феминизм в искусстве; квир художник;

    Abstract : In this essay, two voices are heared, from two women: a certain artist Xena, who talks about her life and its dramas, interwoven with her own experiences from her diaries; and the voice of Maria, who analyzes Xena's life story and her art, diffracted through the prim of the history of 21stC art.  Art the outset, "President of Crimea. READ MORE