Journal article
Telling Transnational Histories of Women in Architecture, 1960–2015
Karen Burns, Lori Brown
Architectural Histories | Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | Published : 2020
DOI: 10.5334/ah.403
Abstract
This essay uses an emergent transnational research project — a global encyclopaedia of women in architecture — as a site for unsettling the terms, chronology, and geography of feminist histories of architecture. By locating feminist architectural history in multiple geographies and histories, feminist practice can attend to the specific geopolitics of architecture and knowledge. This project uses a crowdsourced approach, rooted in local regional reference groups and writers, to facilitate a greater range of entries, voices, and expertise. Transnational histories are generated from difference and disseminate diverse models of architectural practice and lives. Biography is a central tool for p..
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