1st Edition
A Gendered Profession
The issue of gender inequality in architecture has been part of the profession’s discourse for many years, yet the continuing gender imbalance in architectural education and practice remains a difficult subject. This book seeks to change that. It provides the first ever attempt to move the debate about gender in architecture beyond the tradition of gender-segregated diagnostic or critical discourse on the debate towards something more propositional, actionable and transformative. To do this, A Gendered Profession brings together a comprehensive array of essays from a wide variety of experts in architectural education and practice, touching on issues such as LGBT, age, family status, and gender biased awards.
Section 1: Practice, politics, economics
1. Six Myths About Women in Architecture
Justine Clark
2. Architecture: A Suitable Career for a Woman?
Sandra Manley and Ann De Graft-Johnson
3. On Age and Architecture
Sophie Hamer
4. Why Men Leave Architecture
Doric
5. G.F. Bodley and the Gravy: Describing Architecture on the Tangent
Hugh Pearman
6. Women in Architecture: Stand up and be Counted
Virginia Newman
7. The Hero's Journey
Karen Burns
8. Lost and Found
John Fitzgerald and Ruth Morrow
9. Site Parade
Julian Williams
Section 2: Histories, theories & pioneers
10. The Queer Architect In Germany
Wolfgang Voigt and Uwe Bresan
11. Sister Practices
Ruth Morrow
12. Architecture: A Villainous Profession?
David Gloster
13. The "Transition" As A Turning Point For Female Agency In Spanish Architecture
Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno
14. Redesigning the Profession
Julie Humphreys
15. Remembering Queer Space
Anthony Graham
16. Women in Architecture Awards
Laura Mark
17. Designers of the World Unite
Joe Kerr
Section 3: Place, participation and identity
18. Woods and Treasure
Cany Ash and Robert Sakula
19. Down To Earth
James Soane
20. Vauxhall is Burning
Alexis Kalli
21. On Looking And Learning
Paul Davies
22. Scenes of Emancipatory Alliances
Brian McGrath
23. The Eradication of London's Queer Pubs
Sam Douek
24. Architecture 2.0
Gem Barton
Section 4: Education
25. Surveys, seminars, and starchitects: Gender studies and architectural history pedagogy in American architectural education
Catherine Zipf
26. Interiority Complex
House and Harriss
27. Gender, Architectural Education and the Accruing of Capital
Igea Troiani
28. Hit Me Baby, One More Time
Lesley Lokko
29. And Then We Were The 99%: Reflections on Gender and the Changing Contours of German Architectural Practice
Mary Pepchinski
30. A Gendered Pedagogy
Harriet Harriss
31. Look Who's Talking: Numbers Matter
Lori Brown
32. Symbolic Violence
Flora Samuel
Biography
Dr James Benedict Brown is Lecturer in Architecture at the Leicester School of Architecture, where is he is Year One Leader of the BA(Hons) Architecture course.
Dr Harriet Harriss is a Senior Tutor in Interior Design & in Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London.
Professor Ruth Morrow leads the new suite of cross-disciplinary Masters Courses in Sustainable practices in the Built Environment at Queen’s University, Belfast.
James Soane is a qualified architect, teacher and writer.
