Week 6: Place and Power in Architecture

Home Planning and Gender in Mandatory Palestine Summary In this article, Sigal Davidi explores the question of how the Jewish community in Palestine responded to the idea of the “new woman” before the creation of the state of Israel, Sigel largely traces the architect...
Week 6 Reading

Week 6 Reading

Summaries: Home Planning and Gender in Mandatory Palestine by Sigal Davidi The article gives a brief historical context on the Architectural trend that followed the British mandated immigration from Berlin to Palestine. This is one of the key events that triggered...
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W6 Reading Post

Home Planning and Gender in Mandatory Palestine by Sigal Davidi In this article, the author focuses on house planning through the lens of gender, exploring the development of new household ideas from Germany to Palestine. To begin with, the author introduces the...

Wk 6: Right to the City, Morocco & Gender in Palestine

The Right to The City – By David Harvey (A review by L.A. Dilloway) What kind of people do we want to be? Promoting a better life politically, with empty promises of acting on them. Our cities have turned to urban decay as we neglect community in favor of indoor...
Week 6 Readings

Week 6 Readings

Home Planning and Gender in Mandatory Palestine written by Sigal Davidi Lotte Cohn, having graduated from the Technische Hochschule Berlin in architecture had a good grasp on European architecture and the modernist movement. She brought light to the need for logical...