Women, houses and cities

Abstract

Review of the book “Women, Houses and Cities” written by Zaida Muxí Martínez, an architect and urban planner and a specialist in urban planning, architecture, and gender. The work brings a reflection on domestic space and society in order to provide a critique of the premises and scientific criteria established in the fields of architecture and urban planning. Gender, as an analytical category, is the core of the book and its implications make explicit the hierarchical
roles contained in the social relations that shape these fields. Women – or rather, the figures of female architects and their work – take center stage, as their previously invisible contributions are revealed throughout history. The book contributes to a current analysis, through works imbued with differentiated responses to the prevailing thought, bringing new references and approaches to architecture and urbanism.