Description:
Three decades of intellectual work on architectural theory and feminist discourse
Hilde Heynen is a Belgian architectural theorist whose work bridges neo-Marxist critical theory and current feminist discourse, applying these perspectives to architectural culture. This volume collects her most significant texts from three decades of intellectual work, centred on three feature concepts: mimesis, dwelling, and displacement. It offers readers incisive reflections on architects' roles in shaping societies and the alliance between ideology, societal structures of injustice, political economy, housing and the built environment.
Within a fierce post-critical debate among scholars who have begun to question the relevance of architectural theory to the discipline in the early twenty-first century, Heynen's position remains constant throughout her writings in defence of architectural theory as a social and transformative practice. This collection is essential reading for new generations of architects and cultural theorists interested in modernity, gender and criticality.
Ebook available in Open Access.
Contributors: Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno (University of Zaragoza), André Loeckx (KU Leuven), Lieven De Cauter (KU Leuven), C. Greig Crysler (UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design), Stephen Cairns
Review Quotes:
Het boek positioneert zich daarmee expliciet binnen het huidige debat over gender(on)gelijkheid, sociale rechtvaardigheid en architecturale cultuur. Het biedt lezers scherpe inzichten in de rol van architecten bij het vormgeven van de samenleving. - Floortje Keijzer, de Architect, 28 januari 2026 - Lees de recensie