Architecture and Gender: Essay

About this programme

By working with writing projects, the course aims at enabling the student to develop tools for feminist interpretations of architecture and in an extended sense, to create new architectures. During the course we will study feminist writing within architectural theory and critical practice. The course is built up with individual assignments, essay-writing, and seminars. Please note that Students not located in Sweden may have problems attending a course at KTH. You could meet obstacles if you're required to pay fees or if you do not have a Swedish Mobile BankID. Please note: all information from the Course syllabus is available on this page in an accessible format. The course consists of exercises and a writing project and it contains five seminars and an assignment of 2000 words and illustrations. During the course we will study feminist writing within the feminist theory and critical practices of architecture. The course contains lectures and tutorial seminars. The following themes are dealt with in the lectures: Writing feminism; Voice and address; Place, space, situation and dialogue; Academic conventions. The writing project is supported by current assignments. The objective of the course is that the student, through working with an essay, will develop tools for feminist interpretations of architecture and in an extended sense to create new architecture. On completing the course, the student will have a basic orientation concerning feminist writing practices within architecture and interior design, and have initiated the development of a personal relation to it.