Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession

Front Cover
University of Toronto Press, Jan 1, 2000 - Architecture - 190 pages

Historically, the contributions of women architects to their profession have been minimized or overlooked. 'Designing Women' explores the tension that has existed between the architectural profession and its women members. It demonstrates the influence that these women have had on architecture in Canada, and links their so-called marginalization to the profession's restrictive and sometimes discriminatory practices.

Co-written by an architectural historian and a sociologist, this book provides a welcome blend of disciplinary approaches. The product of much original research, it looks at issues that are specific to architecture in Canada and at the same time characteristic of many male-dominated workplaces.

Annmarie Adams and Peta Tancred examine the issue of gender and its relation to the larger dynamics of status and power. They argue that many women architects have reacted with ingenuity to the difficulties they have faced, making major innovations in practice and design. Branching out into a wide range of alternative fields, these women have extended and developed what are considered to be the core specializations within architecture. As the authors point out, while the profession designs women's place within it, women design buildings and careers that transcend that narrow professional definition.

 

Contents

Introduction
3
The PostPioneering Years 1970 to 1992
19
Deregistered Professionals
26
Conclusion
34
Methodology
125
Additional Tables
131
Lexicon
149
BIBLIOGRAPHY
171
INDEX
183
Copyright

Other editions - View all

'Designing Women': Gender and the Architectural Profession
Annmarie Adams,Peta Tancred
Limited preview - 2000
Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession
Annmarie Adams,Peta Tancred
No preview available - 2000

Common terms and phrases

advertisement AIBC Architects by sex architects in Canada architectural associations architectural practice architectural profession ARCOP Association of Architects Barott Blanche Lemco British Columbia building Canadian architecture Canadian women architects career census cent chapter Chard Wisnicki construction context contributions de-registered architects de-registered professionals decade of entry definition Designing Women domestic dominate early example experience Expo 67 F T F female fession firm Ginkel housing immigrant included innovative Institute of Canada interviews major male colleagues Manitoba McGill University megastructure mommy track Montreal noted number of women Ontario women Place Bonaventure planning profes profession in Canada profession of architecture proportion of women provincial associations Quebec women architects RAIC Journal registered architects respondents role School of Architecture sion social Statistics Canada tects tectural tion Toronto Total tural University of Manitoba unregistered professionals Vecsei Walford woman women archi women exiting women graduates Women in Architecture women registrants workplace

References to this book

About the author (2000)

ANNMARIE ADAMS is an associate professor of architecture at McGill University. PETA TANCRED is a professor of sociology at McGill University.

Bibliographic information

TitleDesigning Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession
Heritage Series
AuthorsAnnmarie Adams, Peta Tancred, Dr Peta Tancred
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press, 2000
ISBN080208219X, 9780802082190
Length190 pages
Subjects › 

Architecture / General
Architecture / Professional Practice
Social Science / Women's Studies
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan