I argue that the beautiful, passive, idealized women the panels represent constitute a discursive response to the social and cultural anxieties raised by the emerging figure of the girl-under-graduate, who was widely understood to...
This article examines storage furniture and chair designs created for the Herman Miller Furniture Company by the offices of George Nelson and Charles and Ray Eames in the 1940s and 1950s. (…) While it...
The Charged Void: Urbanism is the companion volume to The Charged Void: Architecture; the two together comprise the complete works of Alison and Peter Smithson. For the designers, architecture and urbanism were inseparable: buildings...
The Price of Desire tells the controversial story of how Le Corbusier effaced and defaced Eileen Gray’s moral right to be recognized as the author of her work and as one of the most...
Gray Matters strives to uncover and explain the enigma surrounding Eileen Gray, charting much of her artistic life journey – from ”early triumphs” through to ”middle-aged obscurity” and her ”re-discovery and acclaim”. The film...
Making Space is a full-length documentary film about five dynamic and accomplished female architects: Annabelle Selldorf (New York), Marianne McKenna (Toronto), Kathryn Gustafson (Seattle and London), Farshid Moussavi (London), and Odile Decq (Paris). Come...
Landscape frames our days: trees or flowers, sidewalks and walls, city parks or private gardens. But who envisions this framework for our daily lives? Women in the Dirt is a documentary about seven groundbreaking...
What role did women play in the studios of legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright? According to archival research done by theBeverly Willis Archure Foundationitect (BWAF), about 100 women architects and designers worked with Wright as...
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