Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021)

Roles of Female Architects in the Process of Design Practice and Their Impacts on Feminist Spaces - Comparison between Genders

Authors
Tiantian Xie1, *
1University of Sheffield, School of Architecture, Sheffield, United Kingdom, S10 2TN
*Corresponding author. Email: tiantian_xie@163.com
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Tiantian Xie
Available Online 17 January 2022.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220105.163How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Architecture practice; female architects; feminist spaces
Abstract

Female architects in the professional industry or feminist spaces design are explored as two main aspects or topic in the study of feminism in architecture. Architectural design practice, as collective, cooperative and immaterial work, mostly produces space. In this research, relationship between participation of women architects in the cooperative link of professional team and creation of feminist space is explored. A questionnaire, designed for both male and female architects in China, was sent to architectural design industry forum and chat rooms via internet, discussing female architects’ labour division in the team and the implementation of feminist space. In the results, men architects have a certain bias against women architects’ strengths and characteristics as well as cognition of feminist compared to that of female’s responses. At present, the division of labor in the team is generally dominated by men in the gender-neutral approach of architecture design. Meanwhile, male architects are less aware of feminist spatial needs than women. Increasing female architects’ participation in core professional links would have positive effects on design and implementation of feminist space.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
17 January 2022
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.220105.163
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220105.163How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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