The Architect

FRancesca Hughes has gathered a collection of writings by women architects with cunning and tact. The diversity of the writings prevents any reductionist reading of the confrontation of architecture and gender, while the text establishes itself as an unavoidable place for architectural thought.

Mark Cousins, Director of General Studies, Architectural Association

The Architect brings an elegant and personal vision to a wide range of ideas about a most critical subject.

Richard Rogers, Richard Rogers Architects Limited

A stunning new collection which provides a clear articulation of the profound gender crisis affecting architecture and its practices. These essays - written by the most respected and innovative names in contemporary architecture - interrogate what it is to be a woman architect, and what architecture would have to become for it to adequately accommodate women. It poses the crucial questions: what might be the terms for a critical feminist practice ina rchitecture as architect?

Elizabeth Grosz, Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies, Monash University

This extraordinary collection is destined to become a key text that arks where the real force is in architectural discourse today. One by one, the assumptions that organize the production and reception of architecture are transformed in a breathtaking display of creative rigor. By gathering together these writers and designers, Francesca Hughes forces the field to face its future.

Mark Wigley, Associate Professor of Architecture, Princeton University

The collection raises critical issues for the discipline of architecture in a generous and provocative manner. It should be readby all of us.

Steven Spier

Building Design