Zwischen Kollektiv und Küche: Rezeptionsgeschichte(n) und queer_feministische Raumpraxen

Abstract

This chapter examines how concepts of queer feminism and gender are differentiated in the history(s) of reception, architectural practice and theory. It traces how the reception of now canonised female architects such as Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Myra Warhaftig or Eileen Gray has shifted over the years: Which concepts of subjectivisation are virulent in the narratives about them, and why do certain spatial configurations, such as the kitchen, remain the primary received works of some of these architects, even though their oeuvres were certainly more diverse? Not only is the classic conflation of terms such as ‘woman’ and ‘domesticity’ critically questioned, but also the binary concept of ‘women architects’: What do queer and feminist spatial practices look like today, and what structures of inequality still need to be considered? How do artistic and participatory projects expand our understanding of architecture?