Architecture & Feminist Critical Theory

Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction. Hilde Heynen in Context, by Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno

Section 1. Architecture & Critical Theory
Background Notes
Chapter 1. Worthy of Question: Heidegger’s Role in Architectural Theory
Chapter 2. Functionalism and its Shadow
Chapter 3. Space as Receptor, Instrument or Stage : Notes on the Interaction between Spatial and Social Constellations
Chapter 4. Meaning and Effect: Revisiting Semiotics in Architecture

Section 2. Critical Theory & Projects
Background Notes
Chapter 5. In New Babylon, One Cannot Dwell: On Dealing with Poetry and Commonplace
Chapter 6. Scenes of Ambivalence : Concluding Remarks on Architectural Patterns of Displacement
Chapter 7. Signs, Images and Life: Researching the Mimetical Mode of Architecture
Chapter 8. A Critical Position for Architecture?

Section 3. Projects & Political Economy
Background Notes
Chapter 9. “What Belongs to Architecture?” Avant-garde Ideas in the Modern Movement
Chapter 10. The Exodus Machine
Chapter 11. The Intertwinement of Modernism and Colonialism: A Theoretical Perspective
Chapter 12. Lutopia: An Ideal City in an Ideal World

Section 4. Political Economy & Housing
Background Notes
Chapter 13. The Irreducibility of Dwelling
Chapter 14. Belgium and the Netherlands : Two Different Ways of Coping with the Housing Crisis 1945-1970
Chapter 15. Continuity or Discontinuity? Narratives on Modern Architecture in East and West Germany during the Cold War
Chapter 16. About the Displacement of Home

Section 5. Housing & Feminist Theory
Background Notes
Chapter 17. Mimesis, Dwelling and Architecture : Adorno’s Relevance for a Feminist Theory of Architecture
Chapter 18. Places of the Everyday: Women Critics in Architecture
Chapter 19. Modernity and Domesticity: Tensions and Contradictions
Chapter 20. Uncanny and In-Between: The Garage in Rural and Suburban Belgian Flanders
Chapter 21. Anticipating the Future: Three Lines of Development

Section 6. Feminist Theory & Architecture
Background Notes
Chapter 22. ‘Matrix of Man.’ Sibyl Moholy-Nagy’s Neglected Histories
Chapter 23. Genius, Gender and Architecture: The Star System as Exemplified in the Pritzker Prize
Chapter 24. Where Have all the Women Gone? Women’s Visibility in Architectural Culture in Flanders
Chapter 25. A Feminist in Disguise? Sibyl Moholy-Nagy’s Histories of Architecture and the Environment
Chapter 26. Narrating Women Architects’ History: Paradigms, Dilemmas, and Challenges

Coda. The Displacement of Criticality , by Hilde Heynen

List of Figures
List of Original Publications in Chronological Order
Short Curriculum of the Authors