Women in Architecture – take the survey
In August 1975 the magazine AD published an issue on Women in Architecture. It especially presented the result of a survey by the editor, Monica Pidgedon. Shes ent letters out
Exhibition: Guerrilla Girls – Grafica – 1985-2017
Guerrilla Girls – Grafica – 1985-2017 – at MASP, Sao Paulo – 29.09.2017-14.02.2018 The Guerrilla Girls are feminist activist artists. They wear gorilla masks in public and use facts, humor
Michelle Obama at AIA Conference on Architecture
The former First Lady was a guest at the AIA Conference on Architecture in April. But what did she have to say at the annual conference of the American Institute
Angela Deuber wins “Architekturpreis Beton 2017”
Since 1977, the “Architekturpreis Beton” has been awarded every four years. The competition promotes outstanding work with concrete and, for more than four decades, has occupied a special place in
#MeToo – The Importance of Language
Women all over the world started to share their personal stories of sexual harassment under the hashtag #MeToo. These posts blew up over social media sites after US producer Harvey
Sex Separation: Gendered Toilets
Why are our public restrooms genderly segregated ? Why do we feel unconfortable with the idea of shared public restroom ? This is what Terry Kogan tries to understand in
Advance Notice: Lecture by An Fonteyne
Professor An Fonteyne (*1971), currently Professor at Hasselt University, Belgium, as Associate Professor of Architecture and Design. An Fonteyne advocates a building culture that pays particular attention to the economic and social boundary conditions of construction, as a counterweight to the trend for self-oriented and object-related architecture. By appointing An Fonteyne, the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich is gaining an incisive teacher and an outstanding architect. With her particular background she introduces an important theme to the department: construction in existing contexts, which will be of increasing relevance to the architects of the future.
Advance Notice: Exhibition in Paris Women House
Women House is the meeting of two notions: a gender – the female – and a space – the domestic one. Architecture and public space have been masculine while the
Discussion: Texts by Beatriz Colomina and Paul Preciado
Thoughts about the texts “The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism” by Beatriz Colomina and “Pornotopia or the Architecture of Playboy” by Paul (Beatriz) Preciado. Loos and Materiality – As Loos is an
Denise Scott Brown
“My mother studied architecture and I thought it was women’s work” Many significant women architects of the 20th century were partnered with men, like Aino and Alvar Aalto, Ray and
Is Air-Conditionning Sexist ?
If there is well one question that most of us never asked ourselves is to know if air-conditionning regulations are sexist or not. Well, the article “Energy Consumption in Buildings and
Feminist
“Feminists are not all career obsessed monsters. I really want kids some day – and a white wedding” Anne-Sophie, 27, Feminist
Drag Queen
“Drag Queens need 3 things: high heels, lipstick and balls.” Tristan aka «Ennia Face», 37, Dragqueen
LGBTQ, Coming out, Queer, Intersex, Transgender
LGBTQ An initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer Coming out The process by which one accepts and/or comes to identify one’s own sexuality or gender identity
Advance Notice: AA XX 100: AA Women and Architecture in Context 1917-2017: an International Conference
London, AA and the Paul Mellon Centre in Bedford Square, London, W.C.1, November 2 – 04, 2017 AA XX 100: AA Women and Architecture in Context 1917-2017: an International Conference
Lina Bo Bardi
She built for the people – In Brazil the Italian architect Lina Bo Bardi made an amazing career. After the horrors of the Second World War, Brazil’s tropical and cheerful
Love has no Labels
Love has no gender – Love has no race – Love has no disability – Love has no age – Love has no Religion _Before anything else, we are
Can you find the Mistake II
Discussion at TUMünchen – 03.10.2017 “Wahrscheinlich sind alle meine Figuren auf die eine oder andere Weise romantisch. Ich glaube, dass Nihilismus die extremste Form von Romantik ist. Und wahrscheinlich ist
Women’s exhibitions as in the German Architecture Museum are well-intentioned, but in the end the new ghetto
Architects are rarely professors and are hardly exhibited in museums. The museum in Frankfurt am Main wants to end the exclusion and of all things organises a show only with
Pornotopia or the architecture of Playboy
We are at the beginning of the fifties, WWII is over, the Gis are returning home. The “suburban family” ideology is very strong. Women should stay at home taking care
Spaces for art
“One of the women that worked a lot for architecture and architectural dreams” Anette Gigon regarding Anne Lacaton, ETH Zürich october 2017
The Split wall: Domestic Voyeurism – Beatriz Colomina
Le Corbusier quoted ones Adolf Loos as followed: „A cultivated man does not look out of the window; his window is a ground grass; it is there only to
Discussion: Texts by Judith Butler and Michael Foucault
Misty and Jimmy Poulette in the Taxi, NYC, 1991, Nan Goldin > Butler arguments, that there is a natural difference between the two sexes. Gender on the other hand operates
ETH and Gender: Action Plan, Monitoring, Equal Reports and Women
In 2014 a Gender Action Plan has been adopted by the ETH Zurich explaining how it aims to achieve a gender balance, what actors are involved and who is in
Too many men on Swiss boards
Investor Hildebrand relies on female bosses The largest asset manager in the world votes against administrative boards – because they are men. This will force companies to be more diverse.
Advance Notice: Frau Architekt – Ausstellung DAM
FRAU ARCHITEKT – Seit mehr als 100 Jahren: Frauen im Architektenberuf Exhibition in DAM – Deutsches Architektur Museum in Frankfurt – 30th September 2017 till 8th March 2018 Over 100
Stand der Dinge – Annette Gigon
On Tuesday October 3rd, Annette Gigon gave a conference presenting the work of her office that she founded with Mike Guyer in 1989 in Zurich. Their projects can be found
Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Judith Butler
In her Text ”Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire”, (published in Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of Identity, New York: Routledge, 1990, 6-16) Judith Butler expands the feminist distinction of sex and
Advance Notice: Vernissage of the new RosaRot magazine
The RosaRot magazine is made by students of the university of Zurich and adresses questions of feminism and gender. On the 6th of October at 7 pm at Park Platz
Sex / Gender
To think of the body only in terms of the biological, anatomical or physiological, is limited Judith Butler Sex (biological) Sex is considered as being biologically given and is mostly
Sex ≠ Gender
“Berücksichtigt man die weiblichen und männlichen Formen der verschiedenen Kombinationen von biologischem Geschlecht (Englisch: «sex») und Geschlechtsidentitäten und -verhalten (Englisch: «gender»), so kennt die Natur mindestens elf Geschlechter, nicht nur
Advance Notice: Department Lecture Cecilia Puga
CECILIA PUGA – CROSSFADES Department Lecture at D-Arch ETHZ on Monday 2nd Oktober 2017 – 18:00 – HIL E4 Straits of Magellan Cruise Terminal Project, 2017 Cecilia Puga has her
Advance Notice: Open House Zürich
OPEN HOUSE ZÜRICH 30.09.2017 – 01.10.2017 in 80 Places around Zürich Different Buildings built by Women can be seen this weekend at Open House Zürich: Elli – Wohnhaus und Atelier
Lux Guyer
Lux Guyer was a Swiss architect and one of the first woman to establish her own office. She was born in Zürich in 1894 and she accomplished a lot to
The End of Theory for Men?
Symposium – gta 50 – Debate «The End of Theory?» In the evening of September 28th, Peter Eisenman, Kurt W. Forster and Jaques Herzog discussed whether architecture theory has come
Gender Equality: Saudi Arabia allows women to drive
The Kingdom is the last country in the world where woman are not allowed to drive a car. This is about to change. As from the middle of next year,
“Studierende?”
Anyone who still speaks of “Studentinnen und Studenten” at German universities stands under suspicion of discrimination. But whether or not discrimination is prevented by using “Studierende” is a different matter.
Women protest in Pissoirs
Out of protest dozens of Dutch women have symbolically taken possession of urinals on Saturday. Recently a Dutch woman got fined because of peeing in a public street in Amsterdam