Women and Architectural History

Dana Arnold is Professor of Art and Cultural Heritage at the Sainsbury Institute, University of East Anglia. Her work focuses on histories and historiographies of architecture and urbanism in relation to social and cultural theory. She is the author of The Georgian Country House: Architecture, Landscape and Society (1998); Re‑presenting the Metropolis (2000); Reading Architectural History (2002); Rural Urbanism: London Landscapes in the Early Nineteenth Century (2006); The Spaces of the Hospital: Spatiality and Urban Change in London 1680–1820 (2013); and Architecture and Ekphrasis: Space, Time and the Embodied Description of the Past (2020). Her most recent book British Architecture: A very short introduction, was published in 2024.

• 1. Assembling the Monstrous Regiment Part 1 (Auto)Biographies 2. Refracting Feminine Subjectivities Through Space, Time, and Architectural History 3. Maude & Me 4. Looking Back: Small Spaces as Countermapping Architectural History Part 2 Spatial Position and Temporality 5. Against the Grain: Women Architects Rereading and Reimagining the Archive and Monograph 6. In Plain Sight: Women In and Around the Archive 7. Making the Zaha Hadid Foundation Part 3 Social and Cultural Flows 8. Feminist Architectural History 2.0 9. Expanding Agency: Ethel Power, House Beautiful, and the Writing of the History of American Architecture Part 4 Spatial Experience 10. Beyond the Walls: Traversing the Boundaries of Architectural History 11. Looking Softly at Architectural History: Eroding the Hegemony of Formalism Afterword 12. Afterword

"Its essays by female historians on their work and approaches reflect on what architectural history can and should be, and form a significant work of reference as well as a valuable teaching resource."Judges, SAHGB Colvin Prize