In the home the intricate relations between architecture, gender and domesticity become visible. Negotiating Domesticity investigates the many and complex themes evoked by the interconnections between these terms.
Topics covered include famous as well as less well-known architectural examples and architects, which are explored from sociological, anthropological, philosophical and psychoanalytical approaches. The authors explore the relationships between modern domestic spaces and sexed subjectivities in a broad range of geographical locations of Western modernity.
This richly interdisiplinary work presents architects and postgraduate students with an in-depth exploration of domesticity in the modern era.
Introduction: Modernity and Domesticity. Tensions and Contradictions.
Figures of Woman in Contemporary Architectural Discourse. Gendered
Subjects:'A Citizen as well as a Housewife.' New Spaces of Domesticity in
1930s London. The Housewife, the Builder and the Desire for a Polykatoikia
Apartment in Post-War Athens.Promoting Catholic Family Values and Modern
Domesticity in Post-War Belgium. Rehearsing Domesticity: Post-War Pocono
Honeymoon Resorts.Sexual Articulations: 'Only where Comfort Ends does
Humanity Begin.' On the Coldness of Avant-Garde Architecture in the Weimar
Period. The Uncanny Architect: Fears of Lesbian Builders and Deviant Homes in
Modern Germany.A Queer Analysis of Eileen Grey's E.1027. An Architecture of
Twenty-Words: Intimate Details of a London Blue Plaque House. Denatured
Domesticity: An Account of Femininity and Physiognomy in the Interiors of
Frances Glessner Lee. Spatial Practices: Unequal Union: La Casa Estudio de
San Angel Inn, c. 1929-1932. Looking at/in/from the Maison de Verre. The
Third House: Marie-Jose Can Hee's Dealings with Domesticity. Photography's
Veil: Reading Gender and Loo's Interiors.The Modernist Boudoir and the
Erotics of Space.
Hilde Heynen is a professor of architectural theory at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. She published Architecture and Modernity-A Critique (MIT Press, 1999). She is co-editor of a substantial anthology of 20th century texts on architecture, and co-edited Back From Utopia, The Challenge of the Modern Movement and Inside Density. She regularly publishes in periodicals such as The Journal of Architecture and Home Cultures.Gülsüm Baydar teaches in the Deaprtment of Interior Architecture and Environment Design at Bilkent University. She is co-editor of Post-Colonial Space(s) (Princeton Architectural Press, 1997). Her articles, which question the disciplinary boundaries of architecture, appeared in such journals as Assemblage, The Journal of Architectural Education, The Journal of Architecture and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
