The Sex of Architecture

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Edited by Diana Agrest, Patricia Conway and Leslie Kanes Weisman

Harry N. Abrams Inc.

Due/Published October 1996, 320 pages, paper

ISBN 0810926830

91 black and white illustrations. Expressing the power and diversity of women's views on architecture today, The Sex of Architecture presents a dialogue among women historians, theorists, educators, and practitioners concerned with critical issues in architecture and urbanism. Essays by Eiana Agrest, Ann Bergren, Jennifer Bloomer, M. Christine Boyer, Zeynep ‚elik, Beatriz Colomina, Esther da Costa Meyer, Catherine Ingraham, Sylvia Lavin, Mary McLeod, Joan Ockman, Denise Scott Brown, Leslie Kanes Weisman, and others explore history, public space and the city, domesticity, housing, consumerism, and discourse itself. They re-examine some long-held "truths" about men, women, and architecture and are accompanied by illustrations of historical as well as contemporary architecture, including work by some of the contributors.