Los Angeles by Reyner Banham
16: HARDSoft CoolWARM… Gender in Design, plus Classic Books Part II
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?
Articles
Table of Contents
Essay
“Matrix of Man”
Hilde Heynen
A Postcard from the Volcano
Camilo José Vergara, Wallace Stevens
After the Flood
Esther da Costa Meyer
Curtain Wars
Joel Sanders
Disarrayed Distinctions
Elizabeth Wilson
Environmental Stoicism and Place Machismo
Michael Benedikt
Grounds for Dispersal
Paul Shepheard
Past St. Louis
Lisa Johnston
Perspecta 9/10
Mark Linder
St. Louis
Mitchell Schwarzer
Review
A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
William S. Saunders
Los Angeles by Reyner Banham
Robert Fishman
Mathematics of the Ideal Villa by Colin Rowe
Daniel Naegele
Pioneers of Modern Design by Nikolaus Pevsner
Alina Payne
The City in History by Lewis Mumford
Thomas Bender
The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
Gwendolyn Wright
Trotzdem by Adolf Loos
Christopher Long