BUILDINGS | BODIES
TRANSMUTATING COVALENCIES
Project: Swiss Alps Wellness Retreat_ Competition Entry
BUILDINGS | BODIES
TRANSMUTATING COVALENCIES
Project: Swiss Alps Wellness Retreat_ Competition Entry
BUILDINGS | BODIES
TRANSMUTATING COVALENCIES
Project: Swiss Alps Wellness Retreat_ Competition Entry
QUASIPACE
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WHAT IS FEMINISM ??
Compiled and Written by Gazal Nanwani
SUPPORT RESEARCH_
THEME- GENDER AND CONCEPT OF BODIES
DISCUSSION- 'Queering'
SUPPORT RESEARCH_
THEME- GENDER AND SPACE
DISCUSSION- 'Loos and Lily Reich'
SUPPORT RESEARCH_ BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Beatrize Colomina
Laura Maulvey
Meghan Morris
Dolores Hayden
Susana Torre
Judith Butler
Daphne Spain
FEMINIST PRACTICES OF INTEREST
DESPINA STRATIGAKOS
WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE = DEAD FISH IN THE SEA ??
Do you think women are disadvantaged to their own circumstances
GENDER EQUALITY -- both have dispropotional access to thing & should be equal oportunities
Feminism is about ‘ demand for equality & not equality ‘. WHITE WOMEN BLACK WOMEN WHITE QUEEN BLACK QUEEN. I believe that women / others genders are not farthest than men ( considering no relevance of. class , race here ) & thus need only equal opportunities to prove their potential .
Gender Equality comes here to play where gender equality is something where women , queens
other groups who are farthest behind need to watch up to the achievements & thus need to be given more to bring them equal to men which is not true !
Of we talk about another substance were race , class division exist , then
Gender Equality would come into play as women or group farther down the chain of hegemony & queen from lover class much differentiated down as compared to upper class women /queen to men
Gender Equality is needed.
Where are women architects?
DOLORES HAYDEN
DOLORES HAYDEN - spoke against the notion of ‘’women’s ‘’ place is in the home.Social-economic & environmental changes are necessary to deal with & gender stereotype
Taking the ‘ feminism voice /perspective offering theoretical position & practical solution for the egalitarian built environment
1.Transforming the economic situation of traditional home maker .
2.Transform the domestic situation of employed women .
3.Is it possible to non – sexist neighbourhoods . Where new approach to planning and design recognize our employed women & their families as a constituency .
4.HOME 9{ Home Makers ( for re organize & work ) Organization ( groups who work together efficiently ) for a more eglatarian society .
5.Child care & unpaid labor on equal bases involve men & women in paid labor force on equal basis , minimize unpaid domestic labour & waste of energy consumption .
Feminism is about demanding equality .
It presumes that women don’t want ‘fair’ don’t want equality , don’t want to be raised proportionally to their limits of needs , age , appetite . Rather they believe they have substantial potential and needs to be raised to men’s level , that their needs , age , appetite , passed men’s level and then gender is not disproportional in any manner
In Architecture , even if you give equal resources , does I fit ? Is it equal / work for everyone ? It might although not be fair & that is where equality kicks in . It’s often not about equality – it’s about preferences .
MEN-800 WOMEN-10000
Do you achieve equality ?
YES . Finding a shoe is important but finding a shoe of a right size is more important .
Right demands are necessary .
We wish to route for equality .
We don’t want to be treated like men , right ?
We are ignoring biology that we are not men . We as women are taking more & more responsibility with passing years & asking for respect for doing multiple jobs avoiding them well – we are wanting to be treated more seriously .
In Architecture we do demand for gender equality but in the built environment it’s Gender Equality that we are talking of .
BEATRIZ COLOMINA _ SEXUALITY AND SPACE
On gendered spaces in design
Article meraki - instead of treating spaces as gender-neutral , there needs to be awareness about the subtile spatial prejudice which is overwoved for instance in a traditional setting , women are generally expected to remain in the inner closed off area whereas men interact & occupy outer spaces ( there is non uniform representation of women as designer & consumers of design entities ) .
Beatriz colomina
1) Politics of space are always sexual even of space is meant for ensure of sexuality .
2) Space is a form of representation & dose relationship b/w sexuality & space are hidden within everyday practices .
3) If architecture has to be read / re read in terms of sexuality , the idea that it is an object is abaudoned .
Beatriz Colomina, “The Secret Life of Modern Architecture or We Don’t Need Another Hero”
HISTORICAL DOMINANCE
Focusing on 2 iconic figures LE CORB & GLEN MERCUTT & their mythical status as star architects . She says that situation of why western theory modernist , post modernist remains masculist in outlook & expressions , not because of socio – economic facts on ground or historical absence of women from progression or their continuing under representation or women’s relative rarity as client – it’s embedded in the very epistermological & institution phenomena –
‘THE BODY HOUSED BY ARCHITECTURE IS ASSUMED TO BE MALE AND MIND WHICH REDUCES ARCHITECTURE IS MORE TO BE MASCULINE’
MASCULINE HAS BEEN
•Subjugaded with human . It is so natural to acknowledge ‘human’ as ‘man’ .
•Creativity is associated with ‘genius knowledge reason , order , mastery’ all masculine .
•Masculinity is contrusive of nature & the very ethos of architecture .
•These stereotypical masculine manifested myths have cultural particularities associated with Architectural profession .
Feminism is about demanding equality .
It presumes that women don’t want ‘fair’ don’t want equality , don’t want to be raised proportionally to their limits of needs , age , appetite . Rather they believe they have substantial potential and needs to be raised to men’s level , that their needs , age , appetite , passed men’s level and then gender is not disproportional in any manner
In Architecture , even if you give equal resources , does I fit ? Is it equal / work for everyone ? It might although not be fair & that is where equality kicks in . It’s often not about equality – it’s about preferences .
MEN-800 WOMEN-10000
Do you achieve equality ?
YES . Finding a shoe is important but finding a shoe of a right size is more important .
Right demands are necessary .
We wish to route for equality .
We don’t want to be treated like men , right ?
We are ignoring biology that we are not men . We as women are taking more & more responsibility with passing years & asking for respect for doing multiple jobs avoiding them well – we are wanting to be treated more seriously .
In Architecture we do demand for gender equality but in the built environment it’s Gender Equality that we are talking of .
