Title & Author:

Women writing architecture 1700-1900 : expanding histories / edited by Anne Hultzsch and Sol Pérez Martínez.

Publication:

Zurich : gta Verlag, ETH Zurich, [2025]
©2025

Description:

1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits, plans

Restrictions:

Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Writing inclusive architectural histories / Anne Hultzsch and Sol Pérez Martínez -- Fringes and interstices: spatial practices in Rashsundari Debi's Amar Jiban / Tania Sengupta -- 'It was not he ... but I': Marianne of Orange-Nassau, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and the building of Kamenz Palace in Lower Silesia / Laura Hindelang -- Sensing the dome: Madame de Maisonneuve and the beginnings of architectural criticism in Paris / Christina Contandriopoulos -- The pursuit of pleasure: a re-turn / Jane Rendell -- Rosa Araneda: urban spaces through female popular poetry in Chile / Sol Pérez Martínez -- 'A lady': Valparaíso's waterfront through the eyes of the flâneuse / Michelle Prain and Jennifer Hayward -- Clorinda Matto de Turner: mapping gender in Peru / Francesca Denegri -- Wet nurses: reframing the history of the nineteenth-century Brazilian modern house / Ana G. Ozaki -- Dolores Veintimilla: spaces of the death penalty debate in Ecuador / Christian Parreno -- Fanny Fern: beauty and skeletons in Gotham / Barbara Penner -- Phillis Wheatley: a 'bright abode' and poetic spaces of liberation / Mabel O. Wilson -- Jane Franklin: architecture, science, and imperial agency / Karen Burns and Harriet Edquist -- Anne Pépin: Goréen matron and mediator of African modernity / Yannick Etoundi -- Bibi Khānoum: recalling the agency of anonymity / Niloofar Rasooli -- Nigâr Hanım: homemaking in Ottoman women's diaries / Damla Göre -- Shan Shili: from boudoir poetry to travel notes / Wu Lingyu -- Marie-Anne de La Trémoille, Princesse des Ursins: female artistic agency at the Spanish court / Alba Carballeira -- Isabelle Eberhardt: architectural observations en route / Helen Thomas -- Friederike Riedesel: enactments of home during the American Revolutionary War / Elena Rieger -- Marianne Ehrmann: writing as public office in Germany and Switzerland / Anne Hultzsch -- Celia Fiennes: commonplacing architecture / Matthew Lloyd Roberts -- Jemima Morrell: reading landscapes of mass tourism / Nitin Bathla -- Layers of freedom and duty: reading the depiction of urban modernity in the Chilean periodical La Mujer / Pía Montealegre -- 'On the outside, not the inside, of the door I open': gallery-going with Anna Jameson / Hilary Fraser -- Charlotte Anne Eaton and Jane Watts: navigating the presumptions of others / Richard Wittman -- Ascribing meaning to the built: Germaine de Staël writing on architecture / Sigrid de Jong.
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Summary:

"From India to Chile and Britain to Senegal, women have influenced architecture for centuries by exerting power over space through their writing. By exploring a wide variety of sources, from diaries and travelogues to inventories and political pamphlets, this publication expands histories of architecture to include these women. The contributing authors reveal female spatial agencies using rare written sources, novel methodologies, and in-depth re-readings of canonical histories. Housewives, princesses, novelists, travellers, nurses - writing as clients, users, or critics - are all relevant voices for understanding the past of the built environment. Examining specific spaces such as churches, homes, gardens, boulevards, kitchens, or shacks, this book proposes a novel take on feminist historiographies."-- provided by distributor.

Resources:
Online Resource

ISBN:

9783856764913
3856764917

Subject:

Architecture and women.
Architectural writing.
Women architects.
Architectural criticism.
Architecture.
Feminist theory.
Historiography.
Information commons.
Critique d'architecture.
Théorie féministe.
Historiographie.
Carrefours de l'information et de l'apprentissage.
Architecture et femmes.
Architecture Art d'écrire.
Femmes architectes.
architectural criticism.
architecture (discipline)
historiography.

Form/genre:

Collections
Discursive works.

Added entries:

Hultzsch, Anne, editor.
Pérez Martínez, Sol, editor.