Minding Her Business
Women, Architecture, and Design
Samenvatting
Women have influenced the development of modern architecture and design through a wide variety of entrepreneurial activities. This book highlights their contributions to the construction industry, editorial production, and real estate development, as well as the cultivation of social spaces and delivery of philanthropic interventions. With a global focus, the contributors provide case studies ranging from eighteenth-century Britain and early twentieth-century Istanbul to postwar Finland, mid-century America, and post-independence Kenya, demonstrating the breadth of roles women have created for themselves, whether by challenging patriarchal systems and the capitalist marketplace or by working effectively within them. Recognition of these roles supplements the increasing attention being paid to women architects and enables us to understand the full scope of the impact that women have long had in shaping the built world around us.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Alborz Dianat and Kathleen James-Chakraborty
**Part 1. Materials and Construction**
Chapter 1. Written in Stone: Eleanor Coade and the Building World of Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
Dana Arnold
Chapter 2. A Woman on the Margins: The Trailblazing Career of Mary Louise Schmidt and the Making of Los Angeles in the Twentieth Century
Andrea Thabet and Jenna Snow
Chapter 3. Myriam Ratinoff: A Concrete Architectural Practice in 1960s Chile
Gabriela García de Cortázar Galleguillos
**Part 2. Domesticity in Journalism and Real Estate Development**
Chapter 4. Beauty in Revolution: Late Ottoman Feminists and the Everyday Aesthetics of Home Crafts in 1920s Women’s Magazines
Damla Göre
Chapter 5. Editors and Entrepreneurs: Women’s Writing on Architecture and Design in Britain, 1918–39
Alex Banister
Chapter 6. ‘A Live Career for Women’: Building Homes for the Working Class in Interwar Britain
Alexandra Quantrill
Chapter 7. Not Her Mother’s Suburb: Women in American Real Estate and Their Promotion of Modern Architecture in the Mid- Twentieth Century
Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy
**Part 3. Nurturing Spaces for New Ideas**
Chapter 8. Maire Gullichsen and Norrmark Handicraft: Matron of Finnish Design and Champion of Postwar Craftsmanship
Sini Rinne-Kanto
Chapter 9. Barbara Hill and the Most Intimate Coffee House in Perth , Western Australia, 1956–1960
Andrew Murray
Chapter 10. Lena’s Bookshop: Uncomfortable Knowledge, Modern Architecture, and the Building of a Southeast Asian Space, 1976–2004
Eunice Seng
**Part 4. Social Entrepreneur ship**
Chapter 11. The Invisible Hand: Female Bureaucrats and the Architecture of Foreign Aid in Post-Independence Kenya
Maryia Rusak
Chapter 12. Architectural Adjacency: Sheltered Housing Architectures and the Place-based Practices of Sister Stanislaus Kennedy (RSC) in 1960s–1990s Ireland
Ellen Rowley and Haylee Derrickson
Chapter 13. Representing Black Women? Black Philanthropy, Architectural Design, and the Cosby Academic Center at Spelman College, 1988–1996
E. James West
Bibliography
About the authors
Index
