The criteria for the architectural design of modern housing from a gender perspective

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Javier Caballero Galván

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If architectural space is understood as a spatial-objectual structure encoded in the symbolic order of the capitalist patriarchy, and therefore as a cultural production in which this socioeconomic organization is physically expressed, then the architectural design of modern housing is based on criteria heavily influenced by gender inequality. This paper addressed two of these: spatial dichotomization, a criterion that subdivides housing into public and private spaces, and the function of space, which assigns specific activities and meanings to each of these. A discourse of collective regulation and normalization will therefore be preserved and justified and the male sex will maintain a modality of privilege on the basis of the subsumption of everything female. Housing will therefore become a significance node responsible for hampering the political transformation that relations between the sexes must construct to establish a truly democratic society.

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Caballero Galván, J. (2016). The criteria for the architectural design of modern housing from a gender perspective. Debate Feminista, 51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.df.2016.03.002
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