Home Atlas

Feminist Perspectives on Post-war Housing in the Netherlands

The research project and publication Home Atlas: Feminist Perspectives on Post-war Housing provides an insight into the history of post-war housing policies, and illustrates the influence of feminist design ideas, projects and writings on housing during the seventies and eighties. The project forms a critique on housing programmes focussed on single-family life, and identifies key concepts that today still influence design, such as the public-private divide, gender identity and sexual citizenship. The book proposes feminist design principles as a guideline to differentiate, transform and rethink post-war architecture. The publication is the result of a two year research funded by Stimuleringsfonds / Creative Fund NL (2021/2023). Exhibition in Arcam Amsterdam (June 2023).