Symposium “Fielding Architecture. Feminist Practices for a Decolonized Pedagogy”

The Fielding Architecture: Feminist Practices for a Decolonised Pedagogy symposium took place at the University of Brighton on 24 & 25 June, 2019. The interdisciplinary symposium organized by Emma Cheatle, Senior Lecturer, […]

Advance Notice: Public Panel Discussion “Bauen für die Kunst / Bauen für die Besucher_innen”

LE FOYER – IN PROCESS 22.06.2019, 16:00, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Grüzenstrasse 44, 8400 Winterthur Im Kontext der gegenwärtig realisierten Museumsneu- und -umbauten stehen grundlegendere Fragen zu Perspektiven des Bauens für die […]

Panel Discussion “Feministische Perspektiven in Kunst und Lehre”

21. Mai 2019, 18.30 RAA-G-01 (Rämistrasse 59) Welche unterschiedlichen feministischen und antirassistischen Perspektiven gibt es auf den Hochschulalltag? Inwiefern lassen sich patriarchale Verhältnisse und Rassismus in akademischen Strukturen und der […]

The Posthuman – Rosi Braidotti

by Giorgia Mini Rosi Braidotti was born in Latisana, Udine, Italy, on 28 September 1954. At the Liceo Classico in Udine she obtained her scientific high school diploma. In 1970 […]

Introduction: Posthuman Bodies – Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston

By He Xingyu Introduction to the author and background of the text: The text is an introduction from the posthuman body, an anthology co-edited by Judith/Jake Halberstam and Ira Livingston. […]

Advance Notice: Public Lecture by Joel Sanders “Alternative Futures: Questioning Design Standards”

Public evening lecture by Joel Sanders (Architect, New York & Professor Adjunct Yale University) organized by the Visiting Lectureship of the Theory of Architecture Dr. Torsten Lange, Institute gta, ETH […]

Advance Notice: Guest Lecture Prof. Jack Halberstam “Unbuilding Gender: Trans* Anarchitectures In and Beyond the Work of Gordon Matta-Clark”

Guest lecture by Jack Halberstam (Professor of Gender Studies and English, Columbia University New York) in the seminar “Architectures of Gender: body_building” hosted by the Visiting Lectureship of the Theory […]

Transgender Butch: Butch-FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum – Judith Halberstam

by Aurore Delory The Author Judith/Jack Halberstam is a professor of English, American studies and Ethnicity and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. He has authored six books: Skin Shows: […]

Advance Notice: Lecture by Dr. Huraera Jabeen “Gendered Space and Climate Resilience in Informal Settlements in Bangladesh”

UniBasel, Hörsaal 101 (Alte Universität) Rheinsprung 9/11, 4051 Basel. Climate resilience varies significantly based on gender and on location in different physical and social spaces. The relationship between the urban built […]

The Prosthetic Imagination: 
Enabling and Disabling the Prosthesis Trope – S. Lochlann Jain

by Masato SHODA S. Lochlann Jain’s is a professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford University, where she teaches medical and legal anthropology. Her research is primarily concerned with the […]

Embodying Space. An Interview and Lived Spatiality (The Spaces of Corporeal Desire) – Elizabeth Grosz

by Sven Fawer Elizabeth Grosz is an Australian philosopher and feminist theorists. She taught philosophy at various universities in Australia, the United States and Europe and is working as a […]

Doubles and Multiples – Peg Rawes

by Mebuki FURUTANI 1) The Author Peg Rewes is Professor in Architecture and Philosophy, Programme Director of the MA Architectural History, and a PhD Supervisor for Architectural Design and Architectural […]

Normate Template: Knowing-Making the Architectural Inhabitant – Aimi Hamraie

by Jamshidi Helia In today’s architecture practice it is self-evident to base our design on given norms, which build on a average user we can align on. As in the […]

Envisioning Cyborg Bodies – Jennifer González

by Jiang Weilan The term „cyborg“ was coined by Manfred E.Clynes and Nathan S.Kline in an astronautic article for a self-regulating human-machine, who can survived in the outer space. Cyborg […]

A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century – Donna Haraway

by Christopher Smith  Donna Haraway opens her text, A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, with the provocation that the essay is “an effort to […]

Feminist Perspectives on the Body – Kathleen Lennon

by Anna Kärtner Feminist Perspectives on the Body is a reference text that traces the historical lineage of philosophical thought on embodiment, and specifically female embodiment. The author, Kathleen Lennon […]

Advance Notice: Lecture Series “Digitale Transformation und Geschlecht”, University of Bern, Spring Semester 2019

,,Nun ja, meine Stimme klingt wie die einer Frau, aber ich falle nicht wirklich unter das mensch­liche Geschlechterkonzept”, antwortet die persönliche Sprachassistenz-Software Siri auf die Frage, ob sie sich als Frau identifiziere. Siri wie auch andere Chatbots, die als persönliche Assistenz fungieren und „immer zu deinen Diensten” sind, werden hauptsächlich weiblich designt. Dass Siris Stimme „wie die einer Frau” klingt, ist deshalb nicht zufällig, vielmehr werden dadurch vorherrschende […]

Architectures of Gender III – body_building

We are continuing the “architectures of gender” seminar series, focusing on the issue of technologies and denaturalizations in relation to the (un)building of bodies this spring semester (2019).
The body as ontology, epistemology, and representation has long provided a model for architecture. Architecture, in turn, has contributed to the construction of the human body, especially in the modern era – for example, through techniques of measuring, norms and standards. How does this relationship change today, as the boundaries between human body and technology increasingly blur, and the presumed integrity of the body becomes subject to debate and alteration? […]

A Manual for Cleaning Women – Lucia Berlin

by Petronella Mill and Tamino Kuny     Nice to meet you, Lucia. Our names are Petronella and Tamino, we are two architecture students interested in Care Work. We have […]

Role Models IV: Sarah Nichols. A Portrait edited by Nora Molari (EN)

FRAU ARCHITEKT – SARAH NICHOLS …is an American architect living and working in Zurich. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the history and theory of architecture. Her dissertation is […]

Role Models III: Romina Grillo. A Portrait edited by Nora Molari (DE)

FRAU ARCHITEKT – ROMINA GRILLO …wurde 1984 in Como, Italien geboren. Sie studierte Architektur an der Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio in der Schweiz und schloss ihr Studium 2009 ab. Sie unterrichtete […]

Role Models II: Maria Conen. A Portrait edited by Nora Molari (DE)

FRAU ARCHITEKT – MARIA CONEN …studierte Architektur an der EPF Lausanne und der ETH Zürich. Nach ihrem Abschluss 2005 in Zürich arbeitete sie in verschiedenen Architekturbüros und in freier Zusammenarbeit […]

Role Models I: A Series of Portraits of Women in Architecture 2018 by Nora Molari (DE)

Im Rahmen einer Vertiefungsarbeit betreut von Dr. Gabrielle Schaad und Dr. Torsten Lange an der Gastdozentur für Architekturtheorie Dr. Torsten Lange ETH Zürich habe ich mich auf die Suche nach […]

Advance Notice: Lecture by Prof. Lori Brown “Between the Academy and Activism”, 13.12.2018, ETHZ, HIL E6, 17:00 

Lori Brown’s lecture, “Between the Academy + Activism,” will discuss her research and the opportunities it has unexpectedly created in real-world engagement and activism, bringing architecture out into broader current […]

Caring: Making Commons, Making Connections – Kim Trogal

by Zelda Frank and Wiebke Gude     Caring: Making Commons, Making Connections is a chapter in the book The Social (Re)Production of Architecture. Politics, Values and Actions in Contemporary […]

Visibility and Worth in Maintenance Work and Art – Mierle Laderman Ukeles

by Yagmur Kültür and Lena Stolze   The ‘Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!’, written by Mierle Laderman Ukeles and published in Artforum in 1971 is divided into two parts: the […]

Making Citizens, Reassembling Devices: On Gender and the Development of Contemporary Public Sites of Repair in Northern California – Daniela K. Rosner

by Emma Lindén and Tobias Lenggenhager   As we all know from our childhood, our pants still could be used even if there was more than one patch on it. […]

Not One of the Family. The Tight Spaces of Migrant Domestic Workers – Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Rachel Silvey

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California (USC). Prior to working at USC, she taught at a number of other universities […]

A Lecture by Britta Hentschel : “Why Do We Care? Architecture and Social Responsibility in Early Modern Europe”

by Deborah Augsburger and Xenia Strohmeyer Why do we care? Is it a natural given or of cultural and religious nature? And who do we care for? How can a […]

INTERDEPENDENT BODIES – Making Non-Normative Space(s) for Care

On October 29th, 2018, Dr. Gabrielle Schaad and Dr. Torsten Lange of the Visiting Lectureship of the Theory of Architecture at ETH initiated a roundtable discussion called „INTERDEPENDENT BODIES – […]

Strolling Into Imaginaries. When the Constitution of Space Produces Disabled Bodies – No Anger

by Laia Meier and Alex Walter   It’s something the majority of us don’t really think about much. We walk around in streets and parks and open doors to enter buildings […]

Advance Notice: SIA Vaud – “Débat Urbanités: Une Ville Virile?”, 10.12.2018, Lausanne

URBANITÉS: Une ville virile? Lundi 10 Décembre 2018, 18H30 au forum d`architectures, lausanne Avenue de Villamont 4, Lausanne     Intervenant-e-s Sarah Neumann / Députée au Grand Conseil vaudois Elke […]

Call for Abstracts: The International Archive of Women in Architecture Center // 2019 IAWA Symposium – March 20­-22, 2019

The International Archive of Women in Architecture Center School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 2019 IAWA Symposium – March 20­-22, 2019   Expanding the ‘Archive’. Latent […]

Invisibility Work? How Starting from Dis/ability Challenges Normative Social, Spatial and Material Practices – Jos Boys

by Lorena Bassi und Vivienne Yao   The text Invisibility Work? How Starting from Dis/ability Challenges Normative Social, Spatial and Material Practices was written by Jos Boys and published in […]

Advance Notice: “Under Same Skies”, 10.–11.11.2018, Zurich

Event: Under Same Skies – Gender perspectives in Arab countries and beyond 10.  &  11. November 2018 at Clubraum, Rote Fabrik, Zürich Link: https://rotefabrik.ch/de/programm.html#/events/3468 What do we know about the […]

The Mobility of Care – Inés Sánchez de Madariaga – Global Urban Lecture

Introducing Gender-Aware Concepts in Transportation Planning aims at providing a better understanding of travel patterns of women and men, by taking into account the travel implications of daily tasks performed […]

Koolhaas Houselife – Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine

by Daniela Gonzalez and Alexander Poulikakos The 58-minute film “Koolhaas HouseLife” by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine was first shown in 2008 being the first release of four documentaries called „Living […]

The Industrial Revolution In The Home – Ruth Schwartz Cowan

by Mirjam Kupferschmid and Manon Mottet  From today’s point of view, we can barely imagine that only a few decades ago, women were washing clothes in a tub or had to […]

The House That Did The Housework – Margalit Fox & Amisha Padani

by Petra Steiniger and Viviane Zibung Margalit Fox, born in 1961 is an American wirter. In the 1980s, already before she went to journalism school, she worked in magazine and […]

Advance Notice: “Arbeit als Liebe. Liebe als Arbeit”

31. Oktober 2018, 18 Uhr, Museum Haus Konstruktiv FILMVORFÜHRUNG UND GESPRÄCHSRUNDE I Arbeit als Liebe. Liebe als Arbeit. Ein Filmprojekt von Brigitte Dätwyler und Lena Maria Thüring, in Zusammenarbeit mit […]

Wages Against Housework – Silvia Federici

by Julia Kobzar and Dzulija Jakimovska   In 1975 Silvia Federici published a book called “Wages Against Housework“. This book deals with the issue of domestic work, analyzing it as […]

What Would A Non-Sexist City Be Like?  – Dolores Hayden

by Sara Finzi and Carola Hartmann   Review of Dolores Hayden’s article of 1980 „What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work”   […]

Reproductive Commons: From Within and Beyond the Kitchen – Julia Wieger

by Achilleas Lehmann   Julia Wieger is an architect and researcher. She works as a architecture department in the Academy of fine arts in Vienna. She is interested in collective […]

The Critical Potential of Housework – Catharina Gabrielsson

by Nora Molari and Bing Yang   Part I Catharina Gabrielsson is an architect, critic and writer. She is assistant professor in urban theory at the School of Architecture KTH and […]

Contradictions of Capital and Care – Nancy Fraser

by Tatjana Bergmeister and Matthieu Schwartz The text we are going to focus on is written by Nancy Fraser, a feminist and critical theorist from Baltimore, US. Professor of philosophy […]

Advance Notice: Architectural Access, Code and Care

This fall semester, as part of MIT Architecture’s Experiments in Pedagogy, Gabriel Cira and Emma Watlington have organized an evening lecture series called “Architectural Access, Code and Care”. Speakers include Wendy […]

Care Work: Swiss Women’s Strike – 1991/2019 in Swiss newspaper WOZ, 20.09.2018

WOZ, Nr. 38/2018 vom 20.09.2018 FRAUENSTREIK «Wir haben schon entschieden: Der Streik wird stattfinden» 1991 streikten in der Schweiz die Frauen. 2019 werden sie es wieder tun. Hunderte von Frauen […]

Advance Notice: “Interdependent Bodies – Making Non-Normative Space(s) for Care”, 29.10.2018, 17:00–19:00, ETH Hönggerberg

Monday, 29.10.2018, 17.00–19.00, ETH Zürich Hönggerberg, venue (tba) Public roundtable discussion with inputs by Dr. Jos Boys (independent scholar, Dis/Ordinary Architecture Project, UK), Caroline Cardus (artist, UK), Prof. Adam Caruso (architect, […]

Architectures of Gender II – Care Work

We are continuing the “architectures of gender” seminar series, focusing on the issue of care work this fall semester (2018). Care work is at once omnipresent and invisible. It encompasses […]

Advance Notice: “Cooperative Cities. Feminist, Social and Emancipatory”, 28.09.2018, The New School, NYC

Friday, September 28th, 3:00-6:30pm The New School University Center Room L105 (Lower Level) 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Please join us for the launch of Volume 9 of the […]

Interview with An Fonteyne in Swiss newspaper NZZ, 05.09.2018

An Fonteyne: “Es ist kein architektonisches, sondern ein politisches Versäumnis, dass sich Subkulturen entwickelt haben” An Fonteyne, Professorin an der ETH Zürich, ist die Architektin der Stunde: Sie engagiert sich […]

Advance Notice: “Downtown Denise Scott Brown”, 22.11.2018–18.03.2019, Architekturzentrum Wien

For 50 years Denise Scott Brown has shaped the course of architecture. It’s time for the world’s first extensive solo exhibition on the work of this 86-year-old architect, urban planner, […]

CFP: “Intimacy Exposed. Toilet, Bathroom, Restroom”, 15.10.2018 (submissions deadline), Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD), Geneva

Intimacy Exposed Toilet, Bathroom, Restroom Confirmed keynote speakers: Nacho Alegre (Apartamento Magazine, Barcelona) Ignacio G. Galan (Barnard+Columbia Colleges, New York) Renaud Haerlingen (Rotor-Deconstruction, Bruxelles) Catherine Ince (V&A Museum, London) Alexandra […]

Symposium: “MoMoWo 2018. Women’s Creativity since the Modern Movement (1918–2018)”, 13.–16.06.2018, Politecnico di Torino

MoMoWo Symposium 2018 International Conference | Women’s Creativity since the Modern Movement (1918-2018): Toward a New Perception and Reception After almost four years of successful project activities, and in accordance […]

Advance Notice: “Saffa 58. The Women’s ‘Landi’”, 28.06.–09.09.2018, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich

A long awaited exhibition finally covers one of the most interesting topics in Swiss Postwar History! (Co-curated by Dr. Eliana Perrotti and Dr. Katia Frey) In 1958, years prior to […]

Advance Notice:  “Eileen Gray – A Grey Experience”, 31.05.2018, ETHZ, lecture by Jennifer Goff

LECTURE 31ST MAY 2018, 18.00 Jennifer Goff, “Eileen Gray – a Grey experience” ETH Zurich Hönggerberg, Siemens Auditorium HIT E 51 […]

“E. 1027” by Bess Laaring, Alexander Poulikakos, Magdalena Stolze

Cape Martin, South of France. A house built in 1929 sits on a cliff, overlooking the sea. Dear Badovici, Thank you for hosting us recently in your sea-side villa. I […]

Workshop “Building Diversity”

On Tuesday, May 16, 2018 TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment will host the first workshop “Building Diversity” organized by the working group on gender parity and […]

Wildness – Complexity, Contradiction and Failure

Time is borrowed. It changes everything. Faces. Relationships. Neighbourhoods. There are not many like me left. And I wonder, what will become of me? How can I explain my legacy? (Movie […]

Learn To Unlearn To See

In her article « Situated Knowledges : The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perpective », Donna Haraway is questioning the traditional scientific approach that claims to be completely objective. […]

A Room of One’s Own: Creation of a Queer Space

  In both analyzed texts « A Queer Analysis of Eileen Gray’s E.1027“ by Katarina Bonnevier and „Closets, Clothes, disClosure“ by Henry Urbach, the queer space is discussed. In his text, […]

Symposium: Noncompliant Bodies – Social Equity and Public Space

The discipline of architecture tends to overlook or actively exclude persons who fall outside white, male, heterosexual, able-bodied norms. This symposium, convened by Joel Sanders and Susan Stryker, assembles a […]

Discussion – #MeToo

The Literaturhaus invites you to Cabaret Voltaire, where Annette Hug, Sylvia Sasse, Nadia Brügger and Manuel Bamert are going to have an open discussion. Women and men are currently trying […]

Exhibition: “Frau Architekt. Seit mehr als 100 Jahren Frauen im Architektenberuf”, 30.09.2017–08.03.2018, Deutsches Architekturmuseum DAM, Frankfurt

FRAU ARCHITEKT: SEIT MEHR ALS 100 JAHREN FRAUEN IM ARCHITEKTENBERUF Die Ausstellung Frau Architekt. Seit mehr als 100 Jahren: Frauen im Architektenberuf ist vom 30. September 2017 bis am 8. März […]

The Architect as Shopper – Katie Lloyd Thomas

The Architect as Shopper: Women, Electricity, Building Products and the Interwar ‘Proprietary Turn’ in the UK Katie Lloyd Thomas held her Presentation at ETH Zürich on December 7th 2017   […]

Review – Flora Ruchat-Roncati, Research on Woman Architechts

On this first day of the new semester, I wanted to come back on a lecture that took place, mostly unnoticed, on the Hönggerberg campus on November 27th, as announced […]

Advance Notice: Gender in Digital Reality

Opening program on Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Klingenstrasse 23 Zürich: 6-9 pm: Opening of the exhibition 6.30-7 pm: Performance by Martina Mächler 7-9 pm: Multimedia installation by Philip Tsapaliras, Paula […]

Review – Arab Women in Architecture

  As announced on this blog here, the 1. Architektur Film Tage in Zurich took place on November 17-19th and hold the projection of the documentary “Arab Women in architecture”. […]

Prix français des femmes architectes (article en français)

Ce prix a été fondé en 2013 par l’Association pour la recherche sur la ville et l’habitat (ARVHA) et dirigé par Catherine Guyot afin de mettre en avant le travail […]

Advance Notice: Kosmospolitics – Sex in Brain: Nature or Culture 

Women are gifted in multitasking, men have a good spatial orientation – and that is, as many say, because of their brains. But is the “female” and the “male” brain […]

Advance Notice: Zürcher Philosophie Festival

From the 18th to 20th of January, the Zurich Philosophy Festival will take place for the first time at KOSMOS. The topic of the first edition is “Me, Me, Me”. […]

Matrix Feminist Design Cooperative

The Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative was set up in 1980 as an architectural practice and a book group that grew out of the Feminist Design Collective. They were one of […]

Advance Notice: Lecture by Nina Power

Nina Power is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University in London, author and blogger, combining philosophy, art, film and political activism in her work. She wrote the book […]

CFP: “Women’s Creativity Since the Modern Movement (1918-2018)”

Women’s Creativity since the Modern Movement (1918-2018): Toward a New Perception and Reception International Conference on 13th til 16th June 2018 – Politecnico di Torino – Lingotto Campus Via Nizza […]

Advance Notice: The Queer Ball is back in Neumarkt

The Zurich gay network “Der Kreis” organized regular balls from the 1940s to the 1960s at the Theater Neumarkt. These lavish parties were of great importance to the scene far […]

Book Discussion – Desiring Practices

    During one of our lectures, the question came: How, as architect, can we design spaces for everyone ? Are the spaces that we create based on the binary […]

Didi Contractor – Leben im Lehmhaus

Didi Contractor – Leben im Lehmhaus is the title of an 80-minute documentary. The protagonist Didi Contractor has been working as an architect for more than 20 years and by […]

Pioneering Women in American Architecture

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Women in Architecture is the global campaign to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of women in architecture and to increase female contributors to Wikipedia. “Pioneering Women in American Architecture” asks: […]

Advance Notice: Lecture by Prof. Katie Lloyd Thomas “The Architect as Shopper”

  The Architect as Shopper: Women, Electricity, Building Products and the Interwar ‘Proprietary Turn’ in the UK December 7th @ 18h00 HIL H40.4 (Plaza) More information on the GTA website […]

Lacaton/Vassal or the Architecture of Generosity

The room was full for the conference of Anne Lacaton of Lacaton & Vassal Architects on November 21 at Hönggerberg. Their vision of architecture is simple: to give more and […]

Advance Notice: Lecture by Flora Ruchat-Roncati Research Group “Doing Research on Women Architects”

Guest lecture by Eliana Perotti and Katia Frey about their Swiss National Science Foundation funded research project on the life and work of the architect Flora Ruchat-Roncati (1937–2012), who was […]

Advance Notice: Donna Haraway @ Porny Days – Film & Art Festival

From November 24th to 26th, the 5th edition of the Porny Days – Film & Art Festival will take place at the Rifftraff Kino in Zurich. The festival will present […]

Educating Women: A Feminist Agenda – by bell hooks

Educating Women: A Feminist Agenda – by bell hooks – Published in: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Boston: South End Press, 1984) In “Educating Women: A Feminist Agenda” bell […]

Advance Notice: Architektur Film Tage Zürich – Arab Women in Architecture

From November 17 to 19, the first Architektur Film Tage will take place in Zurich and present films from all over the world. The selection shows the diversity of architecture […]

Utopia and Heterotopia

In relation to the text “Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias” by Michel Foucault. Utopia comes from Greek “Ou” – no and “Topos” – place Utopias are arrangements, which have […]

The Closet

The Empty Closet, Genessee Valley, New York, 1971, Collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History > to be in the closet: do hide one’s homosexuality > get out […]

Performativity

Judith Butler developed the notion of performativity in “Gender Trouble” and noted that, “the view that gender is performative shows that what we take to be an internal essence of […]

Heterosexual Matrix

“Heterosexual Matrix” comes from Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble”.  It describes an invisible norm which does not appear to be constructed but comes through as “natural” – a norm that defines […]

Advance Notice: Film screening and discussion at Heldenbar

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Advance Notice: Doing Research on Woman Architects – Problems and Potentials: Flora Ruchat-Roncati at ETH

Lecture by Eliana Perotti and Katia Frey – Monday the 27. November 2017 – 10:00 to 11:00 – HIL H 40.9 – ETH Hönggerberg «So wie das Kompositkapitell einer tuskanischen […]

Symposium and Exhibition: AA XX 100. Celebrating 100 Years of Women at the Architectural Association

AA XX 100: AA Women in Architecture 1917-2017 International conference, book and exhibition October 7–December 9, 2017 Conference: Women & Architecture in Context 1917-2017: November 2–4 Paul Mellon Centre, London, […]

Lares – An Association for Gender and Everyday Life Building and Planning

The association Lares  was founded in 2013 in Switzerland. It aims to promote gender and everyday planning and building as a social dimension of sustainability and serves as a networking […]

Heteronormativity

In relationship to the article “(Dis)comfort and Norms” by Sara Ahmed   For a full and detailled description, click here (german) […]

Discussion: “(Dis)comfort and Norms”

Thoughts about the article “(Dis)comfort and Norms” by Sara Ahmed Heteronomativity  “Heterosexuality as a script for an ideal life” states Sara Ahmed at the beginning of her article. Hence, heteronormativity […]

Gender Salon 1 – Zwischen Duschgel und Schweissgeruch – eine Zustandsanalyse

November 9 @ 18h00 Hit4fit, Flüelastrasse 10, 8048 Zürich (Free entrance) Organized by the ZHdK N°1 Im Boxgym: Zwischen Duschgel und Schweissgeruch – eine Zustandsanalyse Wie äussert sich der Aspekt […]

Unisex Toilets Action at ETH

Last month, a group of student organized a small-scale action in the restrooms of the HIL building at ETH Zürich. During one day, they removed all gender signs on the […]

Advance Notice: Talk with Lena Henke

November 9 @ 18:30 ZHdK Lena Henke (born 1982 in Germany) lives and works in New York City and Frankfurt am Main. Henke has studied at the Städelschule Frankfurt under Professor […]

Advance Notice: Lecture by Anne Lacaton

November 21 @ 18:00 HIL E4 Anne Lacaton (*1955), currently a partner in the architecture firm Lacaton&Vassal, Paris, France, and Associate Professor of Architecture and Design of ETH. Lacaton is an […]

03.11.2017 @ 11h44

This is the time where women stop being paid considering the gender pay gap between men and women. Mad&Woman Agency, Paris The gender pay gap is a real issue in […]

The French Prize of Women Architects 2017

ARVHA, Association for Research about City and Housing, launches in 2017 the 5th edition of The Prize of Women Architects with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Ministry of Family, childhood, and women’s Rights, the city of Paris and the National council of the Order of Architects.

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