El poder de la imagen: género y profesión en el campo de la arquitectura en Puerto Rico, 1945-1979

Abstract

This essay analyses how that the profession constructed an ideology of the practicing architect as male; how this ideology designated architecture as a man‘s work, and how it was transmitted. The perception that society and the profession had of the few women architects has been exposed through the analysis of images, articles and advertisements published in the press and the professional magazines in Puerto Rico. The theory of Roland Barthes has provided the necessary tools for the analysis of such documents, and has served to explore the relationship between women and domestic interiors, revealing that the profession, as well as society, divided work and space according to sex.

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11721/1518