Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture traces the life, work, and networks of lesbian feminist architect Phyllis Birkby (1932–1994), who pushed design professionals and the public to imagine a built environment beyond the confines of existing male-dominated forms. Inspired by the women’s movement and gay liberation, she joined one of the first lesbian feminist consciousness-raising groups, staged a feminist building occupation, and co-founded the Women’s School of Planning and Architecture. Her most groundbreaking intervention, however, was a series of workshops that encouraged women to imagine and draw their “fantasy environments”—the home and community spaces they would like to inhabit. Fantasizing Design takes Birkby and her circle of friends, lovers, and collaborators as a lens on the broader ways feminists and lesbian feminists have worked to remake architectural practice, domestic space, and the broader built environment.
Curators: Stephen Vider and M.C. Overholt
Graphic Designer: Marissa Martonyi
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Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture is made possible in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture traces the life, work, and networks of lesbian feminist architect Phyllis Birkby (1932–1994), who pushed design professionals and the public to imagine a built environment beyond the confines of existing male-dominated forms. Inspired by the women’s movement and gay liberation, she joined one of the first lesbian feminist consciousness-raising groups, staged a feminist building occupation, and co-founded the Women’s School of Planning and Architecture. Her most groundbreaking intervention, however, was a series of workshops that encouraged women to imagine and draw their “fantasy environments”—the home and community spaces they would like to inhabit. Fantasizing Design takes Birkby and her circle of friends, lovers, and collaborators as a lens on the broader ways feminists and lesbian feminists have worked to remake architectural practice, domestic space, and the broader built environment.
Curators: Stephen Vider and M.C. Overholt
Graphic Designer: Marissa Martonyi
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Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture is made possible in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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