Negotiating Domesticity : Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture

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. Modernity And Domesticity: Tensions And Contradictions / Hilde Heynen. -- Figures Of Wo/man In Contemporary Architectural Discourse / Gülsüm Baydar. -- A Citizen As Well As A Housewife: New Spaces Of Domesticity In 1930s London / Elizabeth Darling. -- The Housewife, The Builder, And The Desire For A Polykatoikìa Apartment In Postwar Athens / Ioanna Theocharopoulou. -- Promoting Catholic Family Values And Modern Domesticity In Postwar Belgium / Fredie Floré. -- Rehearsing Domesticity: Postwar Pocono Honeymoon Resorts / Barbara Penner. -- Only Where Comfort Ends, Does Humanity Begin: On The Coldness Of Avant-garde Architecture In The Weimar Period / Karina Van Herck. -- The Uncanny Architect: Fears Of Lesbian Builders And Deviant Homes In Modern Germany / Despina Stratigakos. -- A Queer Analysis Of Eileen Gray's E.1027 / Katarina Bonnevier. -- An Architecture Of Twenty Words: Intimate Details Of A London Blue Plaque House / Lilian Chee. -- Denatured Domesticity: An Account Of Femininity And Physiognomy In The Interiors Of Frances Glessner Lee / Laura J. Miller. -- Unequal Union: La Casa Estudio De San Angel Inn, C. 1929-1932 / Ernestina Osorio. -- Looking At/in/from The Maison De Verre / Christopher Wilson. -- Mediating Houses: Marie-josé Van Hee's Domestic Architecture / André Loeckx. -- Photography's Veil: Reading Gender And Loos' Interiors / Charles Rice. -- The Modernist Boudoir And The Erotics Of Space / Anne Troutman. Edited By Hilde Heynen And Gulsum Baydar. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The home is the very place where the intricate relations between architecture, gender and domesticity become visible. This book investigates the multi-layered themes evoked by the interconnections between these terms.Despite Modern Architecture's prominent emphasis on housing, the point is often made that modern art and architecture were about the suppression, rather than the glorification of domesticity. The contention of the authors however is that the modern era marked the rise of a new sense of domesticity that developed simultaneously with re-definitions of gender roles and that led to unprecedented articulations of sexuality with domestic space. The essays brought together in this book address this issue through interdisciplinary contributions that enrich architectural theory and history with sociological, anthropological, philosophical and psychoanalytical approaches. They explore the relationship between modern domestic spaces and sexed subjectivities in a broad range of geographical locations of Western modernity. The home as part of material culture is the very place where the intricate relations between architecture, gender and domesticity become visible. This text investigates the multi-layered themes evoked by the interconnections between these terms A series of essays to challenge and stimulate, examining the links between gender, domesticity and architecture from a number of different perspectives and disciplines.