Interlacing Architecture with Gender Studies

Essay, expanding design practices, Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno, No Density, Politics and economics

Architecture, Architecture&Gender, Cultural agitator, Culture, Design, Discipline, Diversity, Education, Essay, Gender, Humanity, Modernity, Network society, Political jurisdiction, Society, Spain, Urban design

Excerpt from Perspectivas de género en la Arquitectura published by Abada Editores

In 2013, Ealasaid Munro published the article “Feminism: A Fourth Wave?” [1] in Political Insight. This text questioned whether we are living a new feminist wave: a fourth wave characterized by the diversity of purposes and by the Internet’s role in its proliferation and social acceptance. In the field of architecture, more and more often, professionals are questioning whether it is possible to talk about feminist architecture, whether the gender of the designer influences a design and whether gender is relevant to urban planning and design. This is a subject of some complexity that has been present in architectural culture for years but still generates a certain bewilderment in some architects as well as in university students, teachers and in society in general.