Women's Places - Architecture and Design 1860-1960

Zusatztext 'An interesting book.' -Kosta Mathéy! Trialog! 2004 Informationen zum Autor Brenda Martin, Penny Sparke Klappentext What was different about the environments that women created as architects, designers and clients at a time when they were gaining increasing political and social status in a male world? Through a series of case studies, Women's Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960, examines in detail the professional and domestic spaces created by women who had money and the opportunity to achieve their ideal. Set against a background of accepted notions of modernity relating to design and architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this book provides a fascinating insight into women's social aspirations and identities. It offers new information and new interpretations in the study of gender, material culture and the built environment in the period 1860-1960. Zusammenfassung This book provides new information and new interpretations in the study of gender, material culture and the built environment in the period 1860-1960. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction  1. Questions of Identity: Women, Architecture and the Aesthetic Movement  2. Creating 'The New Room'. The Hall sisters of West Wickham and Richard Norman Shaw  3. Elsie de Wolfe and her Female Clients, 1905-1915: Gender, Class and the Professional Interior Decorator  4. Your Place or Mine? The Client's Contribution to Domestic Architecture  5. Architecture and Reputation: Eileen Grey, Gender, And Modernism  6. Marie Dormoy and the Architectural Conversation  7. A House of her Own. Dora Gordine and Dorich House (1936)  8. Elizabeth Denby or Maxwell Fry? A Matter of Attribution?

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Darling, Brenda Martin, Kathleen Richmond, Penny Sparke
• Assisted by: Brenda Martin (Editor), Penny Sparke (Editor), Sparke Penny (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2003
• EAN: 9780415284486
• ISBN: 978-0-415-28448-6
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, Architectural structure & design, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Architectural structure and design