Although little is determining in gender, we are culturally groomed to associate certain qualities with males and others with females: hard/soft, cool/warm, tough/delicate, exterior/interior…. And these qualities come in and out of favor in design. Bit in Western architecture, the association of civilization in general with masculinity and the male body has been strong and persistent. Modernism, neo-modernism, and minimalism have, in the view of many, reinforced this habit of thought. This Harvard Design Magazine addresses the question: what may have been neglected, undervalued, or overvalued because of gender associations in the culture of design?
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Table of Contents
Essays
“Matrix of Man”
A Postcard from the Volcano
Disarrayed Distinctions
Environmental Stoicism and Place Machismo
Grounds for Dispersal
Past St. Louis
Perspecta 9/10
St. Louis
Reviews
A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
Los Angeles by Reyner Banham
Mathematics of the Ideal Villa by Colin Rowe
Pioneers of Modern Design by Nikolaus Pevsner
The City in History by Lewis Mumford
The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
Trotzdem by Adolf Loos