CONTENTS
List of Figures vii
Notes on Contributors xi
Preface xxi
1.Introduction 1
Lori A. Brown
2.Critical Spatial Practices: Setting Out a Feminist
Approach to some Modes and what Matters in Architecture 17
Jane Rendell
3 Inventing Feminist Practices: Women and Building in
Fin-de-Siècle Berlin 57
Despina Stratigakos
PART I FEMINIST PRACTICES IN DESIGN
4Breathing Spaces: Whispering Walls, Feminist Spatial Practice 83
Cynthia I. Hammond
5Blazing Inter
Alia: Tropes of a Feminist Creative Practice 99
Julieanna Preston
6Sister2 123
Kyna Leski
7Interior-scapes 139
Lois Weinthal
8Materializing the Tiger in the Archive: Creative Research and
Architectural History 155
Lilian Chee
PART II FEMINIST PRACTICES IN PEDAGOGY
9The Pedagogy and Practice of “Placing Space: Architecture,
Action, Dimension” 169
Ronit Eisenbach and Rebecca Krefting
10Axis Mundi Brazil Studio 199
Meghan Walsh
11Fishing for Ghosts 213
Margarita McGrath
PART III FEMINIST PRACTICES IN DESIGN RESEARCH
12Gender Roles at the Intersection of Public and Private Spheres:
Transformation from Detached House to
Apartment in Izmir,Turkey 239
Özlem Erdoğdu Erkarslan
13 Courtyards 263
Meghal Arya
14Politicizing the Female Body 277
Lori A. Brown
15Home Grown 295
Kim Steele
PART IV: FEMINIST PRACTICES IN COMMUNITIES
16.Urban Threads
317Janet McGaw
17 Preparations for the
Afterlife: Barking Town Square muf architecture/art 333
Liza Fior and Katherine Clarke (muf architecture)
18La Marqueta Mile: East Harlem, New York 347
Meta Brunzema
19Conclusion 367
Lori A. Brown
Index
373