Hilde Heynen & Lucía Pérez-Moreno: Feminist ecologies and architecture.

About this episode

The episode features a discussion on feminist ecologies and architecture with Professors Hilde Heynen and Lucía Pérez-Moreno.

If one were to be the sort of inelegant person to point such things out, one might point out that despite all the egalitarian rhetoric, we still live in an architectural culture that cultivates dominance, not in the sense of dominion as rooted in domus, home, but in the dual senses of control and territory. The star architects we are assured we must look to, the big, bold, challenging buildings they erect, condition folk to see a casual way of acting act relative to ecologies, economies, cultures and justice as normative, ideal, something to believe in. In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, I spoke to Professor Hilde Heynen professor of architectural theory at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Professor Lucia Pérez-Moreno, Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Zaragoza in Spain. Together, Hilde and Lucia have gathered together a number of Hilde’s most significant essays in a new book, Architecture & Feminist Critical Theory: Selected Writings by Hilde Heynen , published by Leuven University Press in 2025 and which tracks an evolving position, which emerges out of critical theory into feminist theory and latterly towards an…

People in this episode

Host: Ambrose Gillick

Guests: Hilde Heynen, Lucía Pérez-Moreno

Topics covered

• feminist ecologies
• architecture
• critical theory
• environmental justice
• gender in architecture

Keywords

• feminism
• architecture theory
• environmental justice
• gender equity
• critical theory

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Zaragoza, Leuven University Press

Books & works: Architecture & Feminist Critical Theory: Selected Writings by Hilde Heynen

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