Barbara Penner

Barbara Penner is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Her work consists of interdisciplinary investigations of the intersections between public space, architecture and private lives. She is author of Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America (UPNE, 2009) and editor of Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender (Temple University Press, 2009). Her essays have been published in several edited collections and scholarly journals, most recently in the Journal of International Women’s Studies, Negotiating Domesticity, Winterthur Portfolio, and Architecture and Tourism: Perception, Performance and Place. With Jane Rendell and Iain Borden, she edited Gender Space Architecture.

Contact Information:
b.penner [at] ucl.ac.uk
www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/research/architecture/profiles/Penner.htm

Posts by Barbara Penner

PLACES: “We shall deal here with humble things” (11.13.12)
PLACES: Flush with Inequality: Sanitation in South Africa (11.18.10)
PLACES: The Wedding at Cana: A Vision by Peter Greenaway (04.26.10)
PLACES: Niagara: It Has It All (09.24.09)

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