Kemba Beth Mitchell, Special Study Dissertation, 2020. Based on a review of key literature and two case studies, Cooking Up a Storm explores in detail the relationship between age, disability and gender and the impact these factors have on how kitchens are used and perceived.
Aisha Khan, Special Study Dissertation, 2020. This study outlines the evolution and transformation of ideas within British feminist architectural practices to assess the priorities of ideas within the field. Following this development of specific feminist […]
Bonnie Jackson, Special Study Dissertation, 2019. The last century has seen drastic changes to the roles women are permitted and afforded within society, yet discourse on gender in an architectural context only began within the last 50 years.
Scholars have noted […]
Rachael Cowan, Special Study Dissertation, 2019. In 1792 the early English feminist philosopher, Mary Wollstonecraft, called for dissent from hegemonic, patriarchal ‘false systems of education’ dominated by male scholars with the objective of educating the male gender in their own history; while […]
Claudia Amico, DipArch Dissertation, 2005. This journey is an attempt to understand the urban context of a city as dictated by social and political spheres, traveling through a symbolic route.
Interview Rachel Sara
Rachel Sara is Oscar Naddermier Professor of Architecture at Birmingham City University. She undertook her architectural studies at Sheffield School of Architecture […]
Symposium, 2019. The symposium was part of the Initiative Climate Care, a collective initiative addressing global environmental change through a feminist ethics of care.
Climate Care is a collective initiative developed by Beatrice de Carli, Claudia Rojas Bernal, Emma Cheatle and Krzysztof […]
Book Chapter. Carolyn Butterworth and Prue Chiles, in Architecture and Field/Work, ed. by S. Ewing, J. M. McGowan, C. Speed and V. C. Bernie, 2010. In the squeaky-clean world of the architectural journals the new house is described by a particular sort of building study giving a critical view of formal, technical and material approaches […]
Journal, ed. Karin Reisinger and Meike Schalk, Field:, 7.1, 2017. Field is an international peer-reviewed journal for the discussion of critical, theoretical, political and playful accounts of architecture, and an open electronic forum.
Holly Barker, MArch Design Project, 2014. The thesis develops upon an understanding that place is made by people over time. Partnering through the year with council arts initiative ‘Blackburn is Open’, the project combines […]
Louise Taylor, MArch Dissertation, 2018. First conceived as an accessible guide to feminism within architecture, Feminism & Architecture: A Manifesto explores the disciplinary areas that contemporary feminist theory traverses.
Rosa Turner Wood, MArch Dissertation, 2019. This dissertation evaluates off-site manufacturing, self-build homes, and robotics as methods of construction that can be utilised as a means to address gender inequality within the construction industry and […]