Architecture and Feminist Critical Theory by Hilde Heynen, Lu... - 9789462704640

Architecture and Feminist Critical TheorySelected Writings by Hilde Heynen\nAuthor(s): Hilde Heynen, Luca C. Prez-Moreno\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Leuven University Press, Belgium\nImprint: Leuven University Press\nISBN-13: 9789462704640, 978-9462704640\nSynopsis\nThree decades of intellectual work on architectural theory and feminist discourse.\n\nHilde Heynen is a Belgian architectural theorist whose work bridges neo-Marxist critical theory and current feminist discourse, applying these perspectives to architectural culture. This volume collects her most significant texts from three decades of intellectual work, centred on three feature concepts: mimesis, dwelling, and displacement. It offers readers incisive reflections on architects' roles in shaping societies and the alliance between ideology, societal structures of injustice, political economy, housing and the built environment.\n\nWithin a fierce post-critical debate among scholars who have begun to question the relevance.