Book Chapter. Doina Petrescu, in Architecture and Participation, ed. by P. Blundell Jones, D. Petrescu and J. Till , 2005. “…we think any society is defined not so much by its contradictions as by its lines of flight, it flees all over the place, and it’s very interesting to try and follow the lines of flight taking shape at any particular moment.” G. Deleuze, ‘Control and Becoming’
Author: Ralph Mackinder
Book, ed. Doina Petrescu (London: Routledge, 2007). This collection of essays offers a fresh overview of contemporary feminist practices, with particular emphasis on the politics and poetics of space.
Book, ed. Emma Cheatle (UK); chief editors L. Brown and K. Burns (Bloomsbury, 2022). The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopaedia of Women in Architecture will fill a void in architectural history, giving students, scholars and professional architects an authoritative reference to women architects and their work, and to key terms for gender and feminism in architecture.
Book, Emma Cheatle (London: Routledge, 2017). Part-Architecture presents a detailed and original study of Pierre Chareau’s Maison de Verre through another seminal modernist artwork, the Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp.
The Live Projects are a pioneering educational initiative introduced by the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield. Masters architecture students work in Live Project groups with a range of clients including local community groups, charities, health organisations and regional authorities.
Interview Nishat Awan
Nishat Awan is a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths University of London, based at the Centre for Research Architecture. She undertook her architectural studies at Sheffield School of Architecture […]
Kim Trogal, DipArch Dissertation, 2003. This thesis introduces the notion of ‘feminine’ tactics to explore the possibilities for change in everyday architectural practice.
Symposium, 2019. The Symposium ‘It’s Grim Down South’ was a celebration of Northern practice, and a challenge to the notion that by working in London and the South, practitioners are at the forefront of design.
Symposium, 2020. The symposium explored the effect feminism has on the education system and practitioners daily experience of practice.
Event, 2019. The event celebrated women in the profession, with practitioners and educators invited to present talks based on the theme.
MatriArch facilitates discussions on architectural education and practice, with the aim to share more female and non-binary voices and create a better more accessible environment.
Nishat Awan, DipArch Dissertation, 2003. The dissertation seeks to address the relationship between ‘architecture’ and ‘race’ and is based in my personal experience as a Pakistani who moved to UK at an early age. Here I address issues concerning ‘diasporas’ […]
Nishat Awan, MArch Dissertation, 2006. A literature review on the relationship between architecture and migrancy, […]
The Feminist Research group is an SSOA initiative which began in 2018. It came about due to the recognition that a number of staff and PhD students were engaging various feminist approaches in their research.
Conference Paper. Emma Cheatle and Catalina Mejía Moreno, presented at the 16th Annual International Conference of the AHRA in Dundee, 2019. We are two, and many. Alone, two, and a collective (Lacan, 2006 [1949]; Irigaray, 2001). In 2018 we, and others, intersected with a collaborative, Feminist Art and Architecture Collaborative (FAAC), to write the manifesto, ‘To Manifest’ […]
Book Chapter. Emma Cheatle, in Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies, ed. by H. Frichot, C. Gabrielsson and H. Runting, 2018. This piece of writing is an excerpt from an essay that speculates on the importance of spatial and material references […]
Article. Catalina Mejía Moreno, in Journal of Architectural Education, 74.2, 2020. As a micro-narrative, this piece stems from the urgency of exposing a wearisome situation in Colombia where violence, displacement […]
Article. Emma Cheatle, in Text Journal, 55, 2019. Through an exposé of my research, ‘The Architecture of Lying-in: From the Dark and Airless Room to the Hospital for Women’, this paper explores creative-critical methods of writing architectural history. Until the 1740s, women […]