"On Margins: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration," builds on the following two premises: that the dynamic of a situated and re-situated perspective is foundational to feminist histories of architecture, and that feminist historiographical approaches destabilize presumptions of fixity that have propelled the writing of architectural Read More
histories. Through histories of architectures that emerged from individual or collective acts and experiences of migration, the texts in this collection investigate migration and confinement as drivers for modern architecture and its histories, focusing on works by professionally qualified women architects as well as uncredited makers of the built environment. These architectures of migration bring into view margins—whether architectural, structural, cultural, (geo)political, environmental, or economic. This themed section, as one intervention in the broader "Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration" collection sited on three open-access platforms—namely the Canadian Centre for Architecture and Aggregate as well as ABE—posits expanded historiographies that emerge from intersections of architecture, migration, and margins. These offer possibilities to restore absences and silences in the historical record and open onto new theorizations and perspectives situated around the world.histories. Through histories of architectures that emerged from individual or collective acts and experiences of migration, the texts in this collection investigate migration and confinement as drivers for modern architecture and its histories, focusing on works by professionally qualified women architects as well as uncredited makers of the built environment. These architectures of migration bring into view margins—whether architectural, structural, cultural, (geo)political, environmental, or economic. This themed section, as one intervention in the broader “Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration” collection sited on three open-access platforms—namely the Canadian Centre for Architecture and Aggregate as well as ABE—posits expanded historiographies that emerge from intersections of architecture, migration, and margins. These offer possibilities to restore absences and silences in the historical record and open onto new theorizations and perspectives situated around the world
Dossier : On Margins: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration
Editorial, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi et Rachel Lee
Sophie Hochhäusl, "Dear Comrade", or Exile in a Communist World: Resistance, Feminism, and Urbanism in Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's Work in China (1934-1956)
Armaghan Ziaee, On Contradictions: The Architecture of Women's Resistance and Emancipation in Early twentieth-Century Iran
Varia
Sarah Melsens, Inge Bertels et Amit Srivastava, The Architectural Production of India's Everyday Modernism: Middle-class Housing in Pune (1960-1980)139Monika Motylińska et Phuong Phan, "Not the Usual Way?" On the Involvement of an East German
Couple with the Planning of the Ethiopian Capital DebateKathleen James-Chakraborty, Response to Murray Fraser
DocuMents/sources
Assia Samaï-Bouadjadja, Le fonds d'archives Georgette Cottin-Euziol : archive de toute une vie
Dissertation abstracts
Sophie Paviol, Penser le patrimoine guadeloupéen du xxe siècle255
Reviews
Mary Pepchinski, The Gendered User and Generic City: Simone de Beauvoir, America Day by Day
Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Hilde Heynen, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy: Architecture, Modernism and its Discontents
Laura Fernández-González, Guadalupe García, Beyond the Walled City : Colonial Exclusion in Havana
Ronan Bouttier, Caroline Herbelin, Architectures du Vietnam colonial. Repenser le métissage