What it Means to Build Without Bias: Questioning the Role of Gender in Architecture
Which is more male: a stadium or a nursery" Hannah Rozenberg, a recent graduate of the Royal College of Art, says that it?s the former?and she has an algorithm to prove it.
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Which is more male: a stadium or a nursery" Hannah Rozenberg, a recent graduate of the Royal College of Art, says that it?s the former?and she has an algorithm to prove it.Rozenberg?s thesis project, ?Building without Bias: An architectural language for the post-binary,? hinges on the notion that architecture can, by design, be gendered. To illustrate this point, she references St. James, an exclusive London neighborhood that houses dozens of gentlemen?s social clubs. ?Women are either not even allowed in the clubs or have to follow different rules,? Rozenberg told ArchDaily. ?One of the gentlemen?s clubs for example, is Boodle's. Women have to enter through the back entrance there.?
Courtesy of Hannah Rozenberg
You'd be forgiven for assuming that, since the foundation of the St James' gentleman's clubs in the 18th and 19th centuries, architecture had become less overtly gendered. Rozenberg argues the opposite. In her research, she explains that even as technology becomes more and more relevant to the way architecture is designed and built, gender-biased architecture will persist. Why" Because gender is built into the technology we use every day.
Take Google Translate, a program which Rozenberg says c...
Courtesy of Hannah Rozenberg
Which is more male: a stadium or a nursery" Hannah Rozenberg, a recent graduate of the Royal College of Art, says that it?s the former?and she has an algorithm to prove it.Rozenberg?s thesis project, ?Building without Bias: An architectural language for the post-binary,? hinges on the notion that architecture can, by design, be gendered. To illustrate this point, she references St. James, an exclusive London neighborhood that houses dozens of gentlemen?s social clubs. ?Women are either not even allowed in the clubs or have to follow different rules,? Rozenberg told ArchDaily. ?One of the gentlemen?s clubs for example, is Boodle's. Women have to enter through the back entrance there.?
Courtesy of Hannah Rozenberg
You'd be forgiven for assuming that, since the foundation of the St James' gentleman's clubs in the 18th and 19th centuries, architecture had become less overtly gendered. Rozenberg argues the opposite. In her research, she explains that even as technology becomes more and more relevant to the way architecture is designed and built, gender-biased architecture will persist. Why" Because gender is built into the technology we use every day.
Take Google Translate, a program which Rozenberg says c...
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