The architectural profession is beginning to shift from its traditionally male domination. This book examines how the introduction of women to the main body of architecture might bring about a reconstruction of the orders that pervade architectural production and consumption. In a collection of autobiographical essays in which practice is both the site and the vehicle for change, 12 American and European architects reflect on the nature of critical practice and its relation to architecture. The contributors encompass a range of architectural practices from the intersection of theory and philosophy to the intersection of building process and industry. Together they present a critique of architectural culture and attempt to transgress the various mediums and territories of architecture, to recover and reopen certain discussions lost in the architectural discourse they have inherited.

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