Minding her business : women, architecture, and design / edited by Alborz Dianat and Kathleen James-Chakraborty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dianat, Alborz, editor.

James-Chakraborty, Kathleen, 1960- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and women--History.

Architecture and women.

Women architects--History.

Women architects.

Physical Description:

349 pages : illustrations (color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Women have influenced the development of modern architecture and design through a wide variety of entrepreneurial activities. This book highlights their contributions to the construction industry, editorial production, and real estate development, as well as the cultivation of social spaces and delivery of philanthropic interventions. With a global focus, the contributors provide case studies ranging from eighteenth-century Britain and early twentieth-century Istanbul to postwar Finland, mid-century America, and post-independence Kenya, demonstrating the breadth of roles women have created for themselves, whether by challenging patriarchal systems and the capitalist marketplace or by working effectively within them. Recognition of these roles supplements the increasing attention being paid to women architects and enables us to understand the full scope of the impact that women have long had in shaping the built world around us

Contents:

Part 1. Materials and Construction. Written in Stone: Eleanor Coade and the Building World of Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain / Dana Arnold

A Woman on the Margins: The Trailblazing Career of Mary Louise Schmidt and the Making of Los Angeles in the Twentieth Century / Andrea Thabet and Jenna Snow

Myriam Ratinoff: A Concrete Architectural Practice in 1960s Chile / Gabriela García de Cortázar Galleguillos

Part 2. Domesticity in Journalism and Real Estate Development. Beauty in Revolution: Late Ottoman Feminists and the Everyday Aesthetics of Home Crafts in 1920s Women’s Magazines / Damla Göre

Editors and Entrepreneurs: Women’s Writing on Architecture and Design in Britain, 1918–39 / Alex Banister

‘A Live Career for Women’: Building Homes for the Working Class in Interwar Britain / Alexandra Quantrill

Not Her Mother’s Suburb: Women in American Real Estate and Their Promotion of Modern Architecture in the Mid- Twentieth Century / Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy

Part 3. Nurturing Spaces for New Ideas. Maire Gullichsen and Norrmark Handicraft: Matron of Finnish Design and Champion of Postwar Craftsmanship / Sini Rinne-Kanto

Barbara Hill and the Most Intimate Coffee House in Perth , Western Australia, 1956–1960 / Andrew Murray

Lena’s Bookshop: Uncomfortable Knowledge, Modern Architecture, and the Building of a Southeast Asian Space, 1976–2004 / Eunice Seng

Part 4. Social Entrepreneur ship. The Invisible Hand: Female Bureaucrats and the Architecture of Foreign Aid in Post-Independence Kenya / Maryia Rusak

Architectural Adjacency: Sheltered Housing Architectures and the Place-based Practices of Sister Stanislaus Kennedy (RSC) in 1960s–1990s Ireland / Ellen Rowley and Haylee Derrickson

Representing Black Women? Black Philanthropy, Architectural Design, and the Cosby Academic Center at Spelman College, 1988–1996 / E. James West.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-335) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9789462705104

9462705100

OCLC:

1545280823

Publisher Number:

CIPO000354671