{"product_id":"making-space-women-and-the-manmade-environment-9781839765711","title":"Making Space: Women and the Manmade Environment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimely re-issue of the groundbreaking manifesto for feminist architecture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Space\u003c\/i\u003e is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women's lives. It exposes the sexist assumptions on gender and sexuality that have a fundamental impact on the way buildings are designed and our cities are planned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten collaboratively by the feminist collective Matrix, tthe book provide a full blown critique of the patriarchal built environment both in the home and in public space, and outline alternative forms of practice that are still relevant today. Making Space remains a path breaking book pointing to possibilities of a feminist future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome authors worked for the London-based Matrix Feminist Architect's collective, an architectural practice set up in 1980 seeking to establish a feminist approach to design. They worked on design projects--such as community, children and women's centres. Others were engaged in building work, teaching and research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe new edition comes with a new introduction examining the context, process and legacy of \u003ci\u003eMaking Space\u003c\/i\u003e written by leading feminists in architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatrix Feminist Design Co-operative was set up in 1980 as an architectural practice and a book group that grew out of the Feminist Design Collective. hey were one of the first architectural groups in Britain to take an overtly feminist stance in their way of working and designing, and in the projects they took on. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe practice was run as a workers' co-operative with a non-hierarchical management structure and collaborative working. Matrix worked in two main areas, design projects that were all publicly funded social projects and technical advice. Secondly, developing participatory design methods, acknowledging that architects' ways of working needed to be adapted in order to make the design process more understandable and engaging for clients and users. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough there were as many as twenty members of the collective, initial members include Frances Bradshaw, Susan Francis, Barbara McFarlane, Anne Thorne, Julia Dwyer, Jos Boys and Benedicte Foo.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50922779017490,"sku":"9781839765711","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0173a5fe-39da-424d-a010-0b170b5cf6d3.jpg?v=1738939486","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/making-space-women-and-the-manmade-environment-9781839765711","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}