Women’s ‘nature’ and architectural design

dc.contributor.authorOlivier, Bert
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-01T09:31:09Z
dc.date.available2009-06-01T09:31:09Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractIn this article I examine the startling work of Leonard Shlain on the provenance of certain ‘natural’,cortico-neurally based predispositions on the part of women as opposed to men, and offer an interpretation of his work regarding the potential contribution of women architects (and male architects who adopt this ‘feminine’ approach) to architectural design that would be commensurate with the ‘natural’ disposition described by Shlain. Care is taken to point out that Shlain does not advance a neurological determinism, instead arguing that neurological predispositions carry specific associations with different social values. Having set out Shlain’s argument, I then proceed to examine the work of the Iraqiborn architect, Zaha Hadid, as exemplifying the kind of complex, non-reductive ‘intertwinement’ of distinguishable analytical and holistic qualities which Shlain associates with the ‘feminine’.en_US
dc.description.abstractAFRIKAANS: Vroue se ‘natuur’ en argitektoniese ontwerp. In hierdie artikel ondersoek ek die verrassende werk van Leonard Shlain oor die gronde van sekere ‘natuurlike’ brein- en neuraal-gebaseerde predisposisies by vroue, soos onderskeibaar van mans, en bied ‘n interpretasie van sy werk ten opsigte van die potensiële bydrae van vroulike argitekte (sowel as manlike argitekte wat hierdie ‘vroulike’ benadering volg) tot argitektoniese ontwerp, wat versoenbaar sou wees met Shlain se beskrywing van sodanige ‘natuurlike’ disposisie. Daar word egter sorg gedra om uit te wys dat Shlain geen neurologiese determinisme voorstaan nie, in die plek waarvan hy argumenteer dat sekere brein- en neurale predisposisies met bepaalde sosiale waardes geassosieer word. Vervolgens word die werk van die Irakees-gebore argitek, Zaha Hadid, ondersoek ten einde te demonstreer dat dit eksemplaries is van die soort komplekse, nie-reduseerbare ‘vervlegting’ van onderskeibare analitiese en holistiese kwaliteite wat Shlain met die ‘vroulike’ assosieer.
dc.identifier.citationOlivier, B 2008, 'Women’s ‘nature’ and architectural design', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 23, no.3, pp 66-74. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html]en_US
dc.identifier.issn0258-3542
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/10274
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.rightsArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectArchitectural designen_US
dc.subjectHadid, Zahaen_US
dc.subjectNaturalen_US
dc.subjectShlain, Leonarden_US
dc.subjectRight- and left-brainen_US
dc.titleWomen’s ‘nature’ and architectural designen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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