In Conversation with Women Architects: The Interview as a Tool for Postgraduate Feminist Research

Abstract

This paper addresses an experience that integrates research and teaching with a gender-based perspective in the qualifying Master of Architecture at the University of Alicante. This experience interweaves heuristic and hermeneutic strategies with the purpose of providing students with methodologies and tools for analysis that encourage a critical approach to the built environment. The study of collective housing complexes created by women architects in Spain is the catalyst for a biographical inquiry and personal encounters with their works and with the residents, in which the interview becomes an instrument to overcome the condition of architecture as an object and explore its epistemic and political fecundity.

Keywords

• spanish women architects
• interview
• oral archive
• research tools
• collective housing
• feminist pedagogies
• postgraduate studies