Voices are raised - Feminisms and architecture

Selected and introduced by researcher and activist Stéphanie Dadour, the This anthology offers the unpublished translation of a dozen texts representative of the theoretical and professional commitment of several generations of feminists. These writings emanating mainly from the scene Anglo-American architecture in the last three decades of the 20th century. Like so many others, the world of architecture is a field of inequalities. between men and women. Majority in the student body, they are still largely underrepresented in liberal and salaried practice of the profession and suffer from significant pay gaps compared to their male counterparts. If today, in the wake of the #metoo movement, the situation seems to be changing, yet it has been more than half a century since voices of women architects rise: to renew the way in which The history of architecture is written in order to re-evaluate certain objects and certain figures, neglected by the dominant historiography; to reflect on an architecture that would specifically translate feminist theories, the scale of the house to that of the city; to denounce domination masculine in teaching, practice and instances of consecration and claim alternative forms of architectural practice, nourished by the particular experience of women and minorities. Selected and introduced by researcher and activist Stéphanie Dadour, the present anthology offers the unpublished translation of a dozen important texts, little known in France, representative of the theoretical, political and professional of several generations of feminists. Reading these writings emanating mainly from the Anglo-American architectural scene in the The last three decades of the 20th century can only enrich the debates of today and arm the struggles to come. They will speak as well to the architectural environment as well as in the feminist environment.