International Congresses in Architecture and Gender

Innovating and Reconnecting

Journal article (2018)

Authors

Nuria Alvarez Lombardero Architectural Association School of Architecture London
Patricia Santos University of Lisbon
Serafina Amomso Escuela de Arquitectura (UNIFI)
María Novas University of Seville, History, Form & Aesthetics - Architecture and the Built Environment
Amelia Vilaplana Architectural Association School of Architecture London
Research Group
History, Form & Aesthetics (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
Architecture Gender Feminism Congress Women
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Published Date

2018

Language

Multiple languages

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Architecture

Research Group

History, Form & Aesthetics

Abstract

Recent global events have highlighted a special emphasis on an awareness for women’s rights situation worldwide. A renewed critical reflection claims a place in all fields of knowledge regarding fundamental human rights, and so in architecture and related disciplines. There are different approaches to the understandingof both the social dimension of art or design practice and the figure of the architect itself. This is a scope full of tensions and contradictions, uncertainties, possibilities and discussions. Architecture operates at the intersections of various elements depending on contingencies, on contexts at a particular place and time. This field deals with a wide sets of power and production relations and has to face a complex set of cultural, political,
economic factors as well as systems of representation, objects, forms and meanings. Following thesepremises, the first three International Conferences on
Gender and Architecture (ICGA), opened in Spain in 2014, have created a pioneer space to meeting and debate about this need of questioning hegemonic positions
to be able to meet unattended challenges. A debate that has arrive to stay.

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