Women Architects and Politics - Intersections between Gender, Power Structures and Architecture in the Long 20th Century

In the late 1960s, the feminist scholar Kate Millet broadly defined »politics« as arrangements of power which enable individuals collectively to assert authority over others. Taking this definition, case studies by scholars from Europe and Israel explore the gendered professional in the 20 th century as she navigated arrangements of power-including organised religion, emancipation movements, cultural norms, and shifting forms of government-to practice architecture. Additional contributions reflect upon power structures in contemporary architectural education, practice, and history to propose other means of architectural knowledge, representation, and professional activity. Cover Contents Introduction Nicht zuschüttenA personal remembrance of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Care TroubleThinking through gendered entanglements in architecture Gertrud GoldschmidtArchitect and Zionist “A small flock of female students”Paul Schmitthenner’s Meisterklasse in Tübingen, 1944-1945 Judith Stolzer-SegallA cosmopolite between Europe and Mandatory Palestine/Israel Politics, Privilege and ArchitectureVictoria zu Bentheim und Steinfurt (1887-1961), a pioneering woman architect in the tradition of the European high nobility during the 1930s and the 1940s “Ideas that may be of benefit to your own country.”Two German women architects and the American Cultural Exchange Program during the early post-war years Conservative Ideology, Progressive DesignPlanning SAFFA 1958 “I do not assert myself.”Women architects in State Socialist Hungary Maria SchwarzArchitect, wife, widow Denise Scott Brown and Zaha HadidPeripheries and centers Recording and ReflectingOn AAXX100AA Women in Architecture 1917-2017 Frau ArchitektTwo reasons and a résumé About Frau ArchitektStéphanie Bouysse-Mesnage in conversation with Mary Pepchinski Making DifferenceReflections on teaching “Architectures of Gender” Introducing Gender and Spatial Theory to the Technical University of Darmstadt A Gendered ProfessionReflections on an experiment Authors In the late 1960s, the feminist scholar Kate Millet broadly defined »politics« as arrangements of power which enable individuals collectively to assert authority over others. Taking this definition, case studies by scholars from Europe, Israel and the United States explore the gendered professional in the 20th century as she navigated arrangements of power including organised religion, emancipation movements, cultural norms and shifting forms of government to practice architecture. Additional contributions reflect upon power structures in contemporary architectural education, practice and history to propose other means of architectural knowledge, representation and professional activity. Architecture;,Gender;,Politics;,Architectural,Education;,Architectural,History;,Care,Studies;,Museum,Studies;,Society;,Civil,Society;,Gender,Studies;,Gender,History Architecture,Gender,Politics,Architectural Education,Architectural History,Care Studies,Museum Studies,Society,Civil Society,Gender Studies,Gender History