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Abortion Across Borders Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services, 2019

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The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2015, is a ground-breaking docu... more The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2015, is a ground-breaking documentary project that maps the diversity of women’s practice in the built environments of the Global North and South during a key historical period from 1960 to 2015. Over 360 scholars and architects from across the world are collaborating on this large-scale international survey of women’s ideas, architecture, actions, and activism that includes over 1150 entries.The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2015, es un proyecto documental innovador que mapea la diversidad de la práctica de las mujeres en los entornos construidos de los hemisferios norte y el sur, durante un período histórico clave de 1960 a 2015. Más de 360 ??académicos y arquitectos de todo el mundo están colaborando en esta encuesta internacional a gran escala sobre las ideas, la arquitectura, las acciones y el activismo de las mujeres que incluye más de 1150 entradas

Journal of Architectural Education, 2020

Women: A Cultural Review, 2014

Anyone who has seen antiabortion protests outside of clinics or read about new state laws legisla... more Anyone who has seen antiabortion protests outside of clinics or read about new state laws legislating the width of abortion clinic hallways and janitor's closets would know that space matters to the abortion debate. In Contested Spaces, architect Lori Brown examines the spatial practices and politics of abortion access and, to a lesser extent, women's shelters in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. (The United States, however, gets by far the most attention in this volume.) Brown asserts that architecture as a field has ignored the politics of spaces. Thus her book, she claims, "reinsert[s] architecture back into contemporary culture and the built environment of everyday space" (3). Beyond the field of architecture, she attempts to use the interventions of both feminist theory and spatial theory to understand better the day-today realities and hardships of getting an abortion. This project is a necessary one. As Brown points out, antiabortion activists have excelled at finding the weaknesses in abortion laws regulating protest outside of clinics and an even better job locating weaknesses in the clinics themselves. Where the parking lot is located, how far the sidewalk is from the building, whether there is a fence between the street and the clinic: all affect the levels of harassment women experience while receiving reproductive health care. Brown suggests, and I concur, that architects, activists, and politicians must adapt to the spatial tactics of antiabortion protesters to secure women's rights and abilities to choose. Brown's book is divided into four very different chapters. In her first substantive chapter (chapter 2), Brown reviews the theoretical literature on space, gender, sexuality, and the body, from Elizabeth Grosz to Linda McDowell. Brown concludes from this literature that architecture can provide "spaces of possibility" whereby reimagined spaces can produce change and "work against hegemony" (36). Her next chapter focuses on the spatial implications of abortion law in the three countries under review. After recounting each country's histories of abortion law, she contends that the United States has much to learn from the lessrestrictive Canada and the more-restrictive Mexico, because Canada has entirely decriminalized abortion and provides abortions through the national This topic deserves more attention. For this alone, Brown's book should be useful to a discipline that, as she claims, does not consider the politics of space.

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Abortion Across Borders Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services, 2019

The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2015, is a ground-breaking docu... more The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2015, is a ground-breaking documentary project that maps the diversity of women’s practice in the built environments of the Global North and South during a key historical period from 1960 to 2015. Over 360 scholars and architects from across the world are collaborating on this large-scale international survey of women’s ideas, architecture, actions, and activism that includes over 1150 entries.The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2015, es un proyecto documental innovador que mapea la diversidad de la práctica de las mujeres en los entornos construidos de los hemisferios norte y el sur, durante un período histórico clave de 1960 a 2015. Más de 360 ??académicos y arquitectos de todo el mundo están colaborando en esta encuesta internacional a gran escala sobre las ideas, la arquitectura, las acciones y el activismo de las mujeres que incluye más de 1150 entradas

Journal of Architectural Education, 2020

Women: A Cultural Review, 2014

Anyone who has seen antiabortion protests outside of clinics or read about new state laws legisla... more Anyone who has seen antiabortion protests outside of clinics or read about new state laws legislating the width of abortion clinic hallways and janitor's closets would know that space matters to the abortion debate. In Contested Spaces, architect Lori Brown examines the spatial practices and politics of abortion access and, to a lesser extent, women's shelters in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. (The United States, however, gets by far the most attention in this volume.) Brown asserts that architecture as a field has ignored the politics of spaces. Thus her book, she claims, "reinsert[s] architecture back into contemporary culture and the built environment of everyday space" (3). Beyond the field of architecture, she attempts to use the interventions of both feminist theory and spatial theory to understand better the day-today realities and hardships of getting an abortion. This project is a necessary one. As Brown points out, antiabortion activists have excelled at finding the weaknesses in abortion laws regulating protest outside of clinics and an even better job locating weaknesses in the clinics themselves. Where the parking lot is located, how far the sidewalk is from the building, whether there is a fence between the street and the clinic: all affect the levels of harassment women experience while receiving reproductive health care. Brown suggests, and I concur, that architects, activists, and politicians must adapt to the spatial tactics of antiabortion protesters to secure women's rights and abilities to choose. Brown's book is divided into four very different chapters. In her first substantive chapter (chapter 2), Brown reviews the theoretical literature on space, gender, sexuality, and the body, from Elizabeth Grosz to Linda McDowell. Brown concludes from this literature that architecture can provide "spaces of possibility" whereby reimagined spaces can produce change and "work against hegemony" (36). Her next chapter focuses on the spatial implications of abortion law in the three countries under review. After recounting each country's histories of abortion law, she contends that the United States has much to learn from the lessrestrictive Canada and the more-restrictive Mexico, because Canada has entirely decriminalized abortion and provides abortions through the national This topic deserves more attention. For this alone, Brown's book should be useful to a discipline that, as she claims, does not consider the politics of space.

Exhibition of postcard submittals for the ArchiteXX design action

Panel 3: Socio-political. Transections interdisciplinary symposium - April 12, 2014 at Slocum Hal... more Panel 3: Socio-political. Transections interdisciplinary symposium - April 12, 2014 at Slocum Hall. Featuring Michelle Provost, Shobha Bhatia, Laura Heyman, Lori Brown, and Yutaka Sho (Moderator)

ACME: An International E- …, 2008

This paper explores the potential of participatory action research (PAR) as pedagogy in urban uni... more This paper explores the potential of participatory action research (PAR) as pedagogy in urban university classrooms. We address models and ideals of service learning, participatory action research, and critical pedagogy. We then explain the design, implementation, and outcomes of a recent class co-taught in the

Recommended Citation Brandt, Kathleen; Lonsway, Brian; Brown, Lori; Chun, Junho; Cooke, Sekou; Co... more Recommended Citation Brandt, Kathleen; Lonsway, Brian; Brown, Lori; Chun, Junho; Cooke, Sekou; Corso, Gregory; Czerniak, Julia; Davis, Lawrence; Dixit, Mitesh; Louie, Jonathan; McIntosh, Nicole; Parga, Marcos; Park, Daekwon; Wang, Fei; Bartosh, Amber; Bedard, Jean-Francois; Chua, Lawrence; Hunker, Molly; Hubeli, Roger; Larsen, Julie; Krietemeyer, Elizabeth; Linder, Mark; Namara, Sinead Mac; Sho, Yutaka; Brown, Ted; Godlewski, Joseph; Miller, Kyle; and Shanks, David, "Faculty Publications for Academic Year 2018-19" (2019). Full list of publications from School of Architecture. 230. https://surface.syr.edu/arc/230

Architectural Histories, 2020

This essay uses an emergent transnational research project — a global encyclopaedia of women in a... more This essay uses an emergent transnational research project — a global encyclopaedia of women in architecture — as a site for unsettling the terms, chronology, and geography of feminist histories of architecture. By locating feminist architectural history in multiple geographies and histories, feminist practice can attend to the specific geopolitics of architecture and knowledge. This project uses a crowdsourced approach, rooted in local regional reference groups and writers, to facilitate a greater range of entries, voices, and expertise. Transnational histories are generated from difference and disseminate diverse models of architectural practice and lives. Biography is a central tool for providing these counter-narratives of architecture. In this essay feminist scholarship of the 1980s on women’s lives provides a critical foundation for the current biographical turn in journalism and academia. Life writing has long been foundational to women’s history writing, but contemporary bio...

for the College of Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley

invited speaker for Tulane University Students United for Reproductive Justice (SURJ)

Now What?! is the first exhibition to examine the little-known history of architects and designer... more Now What?! is the first exhibition to examine the little-known history of architects and designers working to further the causes of the civil rights, women’s, and LGBTQ movements of the past fifty years. The exhibition content, conversations, and stories will inspire a new generation of design professionals to see themselves as agents of change by looking at the past to see new ways forward.

Exhibition of postcard submittals for the ArchiteXX design action

School of Architecture Woodbury University Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA Jayna Zweiman and Christia... more School of Architecture Woodbury University Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
Jayna Zweiman and Christian Stayner, organizers

exhibition of women designers and architects employing feminist methodologies in their design work