Architecture & Urban Geography - guest lecture Lesley Ann Noel

Architecture & Urban Geography

Lesley-Ann Noel The University of the West Indies Dept. of Creative & Festival Arts Lesley-ann.noel@sta.uwi.edu

Architecture is both the process and product of designing environments for people which re!ect a range of practical and aesthetic considerations

Architecture is both the process and product of designing environments for people which re!ect a range of practical and aesthetic considerations Spanish Cabildo Sackville St. Port of Spain, Trinidad

Architecture is both the process and product of designing environments for people which re!ect a range of practical and aesthetic considerations Old Port of Spain, Trinidad

Architecture is both the process and product of designing environments for people which re!ect a range of practical and aesthetic considerations Frederick St. Port of Spain, South of Woodford Square.

Practical? Aesthetic? Gehry Stata Center MIT

http://www.slate.com/slideshows/arts/in-praise-of-the-anti-icon.html

Practical? Aesthetic?

Gehry Walt Disney Concert Hall

Architecture is both the process and product of designing environments for people which re!ect a range of practical and aesthetic considerations Michael Sorkin

Master plan for WEED

Architecture is both the process and product of designing environments for people which re!ect a range of practical and aesthetic considerations

Architecture is both the process and product of designing environments for people which re!ect a range of practical and aesthetic considerations

Urban geography has a long history of examining architecture, initially considering buildings as cultural artifacts, and more recently as objects of value, as signs and in terms of the use and consumption of architectural spaces by people.

Forbidden City – Beijing, China

Urban geography has a long history of examining architecture, initially considering buildings as cultural artifacts, and more recently as objects of value, as signs and in terms of the use and consumption of architectural spaces by people.

Hanuman Statue Caripachaima

Trinidad

Urban geography has a long history of examining architecture, initially considering buildings as cultural artifacts, and more recently as objects of value, as signs and in terms of the use and consumption of architectural spaces by people.

Urban geography has a long history of examining architecture, initially considering buildings as cultural artifacts, and more recently as objects of value, as signs and in terms of the use and consumption of architectural spaces by people.

Temple on the Sea Waterloo Trinidad

Urban geography has a long history of examining architecture, initially considering buildings as cultural artifacts, and more recently as objects of value, as signs and in terms of the use and consumption of architectural spaces by people.

Oscar Niemeyer

Rocinha Sporting Complex

Urban geography has a long history of examining architecture, initially considering buildings as cultural artifacts, and more recently as objects of value, as signs and in terms of the use and consumption of architectural spaces by people.

The urban environment is largely "man-made", and architects play an in!uential role in transcribing gender roles and relations into the physical fabric of the city at a variety of scales.

Discussions about gender in architecture often begin with an analysis of forms:

This water storage tower from Zaragoza, Spain, is described as having amazon-like qualities.

Water  Storage  Tower  by  Mendaro  Corsini,  Isasi  Zaragoza  and  Gutierrez  Rodriguez  

Discussions about gender in architecture often begin with an analysis of forms:

Steps  –  Museum  of  Contemporary  Art,  Chicago  

Discussions about gender in architecture often begin with an analysis of forms:

Absolute Towers designed by Ma Yansong of MAD Studios, China are said to have feminine forms.

Absolute  World  Towers  (Marilyn  Monroe  Towers)  Mississauga  Ontario    

Discussions about gender in architecture often begin with an analysis of forms:

The Empire State Building is an example of ‘phallic architecture’ which has its origins in ancient Greece and Egypt.

Empire  State  Building  

Discussions about gender in should also include the gender balance in the profession:

Eva Castro was one of 6 women out of 44 presenters at a recent architecture conference demonstrating the profession’s bias towards men.

Eva  Castro,  Ground  Lab,  ‘Flowing  Gardens’  Xi’an  Expo  2009  

Discussions about gender in architecture often begin with an analysis of forms but should include architecture’s role in rede"ning housework and the housing needs of women and their families.

Truus Schroder co-designed this house with architect Gerrit Rietveld in 1924. She designed the equipment and built-in furniture and challenged traditional ideas of domestic spaces.

Rietveld  Schroder  House  1924  

Discussions about gender in should include architecture’s role in rede"ning housework and the housing needs of women and their families.

Eileen Gray designed an architecture that would address the needs of the occupants and the new family unit. Gray worked within the model of modern architecture. She worked with LeCorbusier on a house called E1027, a house which called into question the typical domestic group and gender relations.

At  E1027  house  –  early  20th  century.    

In an era of competitive globalization, iconic architecture is increasingly being used as a tool for economic development within cities.

In an era of competitive globalization, iconic architecture is increasingly being used as a tool for economic development within cities.

Fake Hills

Ma Yansong

In an era of competitive globalization, iconic architecture is increasingly being used as a tool for economic development within cities.

NAPA

Port of Spain Trinidad

In an era of competitive globalization, iconic architecture is increasingly being used as a tool for economic development within cities.

NAPA

Port of Spain Trinidad

In an era of competitive globalization, iconic architecture is increasingly being used as a tool for economic development within cities.

In an era of competitive globalization, iconic architecture is increasingly being used as a tool for economic development within cities.

In an era of competitive globalization, iconic architecture is increasingly being used as a tool for economic development within cities.

In an era of competitive globalization, iconic architecture is increasingly being used as a tool for economic development within cities.

Increasingly forms of 'fortress architecture' are evident in cities, where people reside in secured access environments exacerbating feelings of fragmentation and exclusion. .

Increasingly forms of 'fortress architecture' are evident in cities, where people reside in secured access environments exacerbating feelings of fragmentation and exclusion.

Increasingly forms of 'fortress architecture' are evident in cities, where people reside in secured access environments exacerbating feelings of fragmentation and exclusion.

Apartment building,

Maputo, Mozambique

Increasingly forms of 'fortress architecture' are evident in cities, where people reside in secured access environments exacerbating feelings of fragmentation and exclusion.

Sunrise Park,

Trincity, Trinidad

Increasingly forms of 'fortress architecture' are evident in cities, where people reside in secured access environments exacerbating feelings of fragmentation and exclusion.

This foyer in the Red House was once a public space and was used as a short cut for people walking from Woodford Sq to Wrightson Rd.

Increasingly forms of 'fortress architecture' are evident in cities, where people reside in secured access environments exacerbating feelings of fragmentation and exclusion.

Lack of use of some public spaces leads to their decline.