Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research, University of Florida, 1994-2000

Issues of gender theory, interdisciplinary education, and resistance to conventional academic hierarchies inform and qualify our programmatic charge to renovate a historic structure for the recently established Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida. Althoug...

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Published in:Journal of architectural education (1984) 2001-11, Vol.55 (2), p.81-89
Main Authors: Tanzer, Kim, Constant, Caroline
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Architecture
Buildings
Educational buildings
Gender equality
Gender roles
Gender studies
Historic gardens
School campuses
Universities
Womens studies
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Summary:Issues of gender theory, interdisciplinary education, and resistance to conventional academic hierarchies inform and qualify our programmatic charge to renovate a historic structure for the recently established Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida. Although a clear, insistent design vision guides our proposal, we believe this vision should be implemented without the hero-architect rhetoric we were trained to deliver. Instead, we hope that participation in ongoing campus decision-making processes will contribute thoughtful commentary on gender and education to the project's evolution. To carefully cultivate the larger context will entail absorption into the process of institutional bureaucracy, advocating the proposal's value interstitially rather than autonomously.
ISSN:1046-4883
1531-314X
DOI:10.1162/104648801753199509