Krasny, Elke. ‘Care Trouble. Thinking through gendered entanglements in architecture.’ 2022

Krasny, Elke. ‘Care Trouble. Thinking through gendered entanglements in architecture.’ In Women Architects and Politics. Intersections between Gender, Power Structures and Architecture in the Long 20th Century, edited by Mary Pepchinski and Christina Budde, 27- 46, Bielefeld: transcript, 2022.

Is architecture a form of care? How to think, practice, build and write architecture
as care? The following ref lections are indebted to my growing concern
that architecture today, very much dominated by the form-follows-capital
mantra, must be more fully understood as a care practice. A closer look
reveals that there is virtually no limit to care in architecture. This includes
architecture in all its different phases and stages, from the organisation of
shared work in an architectural office to the completion of a building, from
interactions with clients and contractors to labor conditions on construction
sites, from considerations of material f lows in architecture to maintaining
or repairing existing buildings, from educating future architects to writing
about architecture.