Women in Architecture | Campaign & Awards

Naked ambition: blurring the line between creator and consumer in the porn industry

As pornography has moved from the public to the private sphere, stage sets have increasingly mirrored the domestic settings in which it is consumed

Out of space: changing homosexual geographies

State control over homosexuality in public has given way to spatial divisions brought on by economic and technological pressures

Outrage: the prejudice against queer aesthetics

Architecture represses plurality and queerness in favour of heteronormative culture

Tortuous trajectories: the loves and lives of Modern couples

Activating multiple modernities and identities, the Barbican’s Modern Couples exhibition probed the explicit intertwining of lives and art

Stepping out: the flâneuse claims the city for herself

Forging a pattern for a new archetypal character distinct from that of her oft-cited male counterpart, the flâneuse savours the city in a way that has historically been denied her

Poem: phases of home life

Home futures brimming with desire and an aesthetics of domesticity

Pyjama party: what we do in bed

Place of work, protest, creativity, sexual gratification as well as slumber – the bed hosts myriad activities

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Body unbuilding: on cuts, stitching and anarchitecture

If the human form can be depicted as a house, what does it mean to dismantle it?

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Women with attitude: AAXX

From the advent of female undergraduates in 1917, the Architectural Association has spurred feminist activism in the profession

Unfair dismissal: the legacy of women architects working for London councils

The legacy of women architects working for London councils in the 20th century is often overlooked – for no good reason

Signs of the times: Learning from Las Vegas returns

The facsimile edition of Learning from Las Vegas, by Jane Drew Prize winner Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour, is long overdue

Women in a man-made world: the need to build more holistically

The exteriors of buildings are an expression of human sexuality and power, historically determined by men – we should now design more holistically

Loos and Baker: a house for Josephine

Adolf Loos’s lost house for Josephine Baker marked a seminal moment in the expression of cultural and social modernity

Built-in bias: hidden power and privilege in design

Hidden power and privilege can damage our reputations or place us in harm’s way

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The Williams sisters’ feminist space of possibility 23m by 8m long

Only resist: a feminist approach to critical spatial practice

Since the 1990s, a radical and interdisciplinary approach to spatial practice offers a rich and productive seam for feminism and architecture

Editorial: Awards for women architects will eventually become an anachronism

While it is still the case that women have yet to achieve equality in the architectural world, the Women in Architecture awards applaud first architectural quality, and then the architect – who happens to be a woman

The Invisible Women: How female architects were erased from history

As stars or workers, women are often not attributed with authorship of the work; they are oppressed by the fact of being women

‘Despite the pulls of gender, there is still the work – the ideas, designs and buildings that transcend any single notion of identity’

Identifying as an architect is a kind of drag, a mannered persona donned for effect

Editorial: Five years ago, I asked a question: why do women leave architecture?

I could not find a single answer to this question, but a whole spectrum of experience only partially captured by the responses to the Women in Architecture (WIA) survey. With women making up half of architecture students, as then editor of the Architects’ Journal, I hunted the spectre of the missing 25 per cent among qualified architects.