Architecture For Feminism?: The Design Of The Women's Library, London

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  • Annmarie Adams McGill University

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Building design, Art and Music, Libraries, Feminist architecture

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Cet article explore la "Women's Library," à Londres, en Angleterre, concue par Wright & Wright Architects. Il discute que la conception de l'édifice est implicitement féministe dans toute sa construction, l'absence d' hiérarchie spatiale, sa position environnementale, et sa relation avec l'architecture londonienne millénaire.

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Annmarie Adams, McGill University

Annmarie Adams is associate professor and Dawson Scholar at the School of Architecture, McGill University, Montréal, Québec. She is author of Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 (1996) and co-author of Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession (2000). Her current research is on 20th-century hospital architecture.

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2004-10-01

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