Domestic orbits
By: Frida Escobedo ; editors, Xavier Nueno, León Muñoz Santini ; texts by Frida Escobedo, Mauricio Patrón, Alejandro Hernández Gálvez ; translated by Robin Myers
Contributors: Patrón, Mauricio, 1984- author; Hernández Gálvez, Alejandro, author; Nueno, Xavier, editor; Muñoz Santini, León, editor
Series: News -- 2; News (Mexico City, Mexico) -- 2.
Publisher: Gato Negro Ediciones
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Mexico City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9786079796976
Subjects: Domestic Architecture; Designs and plans; Architecture and society; Women household employees; Social conditions
Other titles: Frida Escobedo :
Description: "Frida Escobedo's Domestic Orbits is a speculative essay of critical cartography that explores how the domestic space is configured around orbits of exclusion that shape the trajectories of domestic workers.  How is the space articulated according to specific gendered, classist, and racist configurations of the social sphere?  Organized through a series of case studies that range from the 1950s until today in Mexico City, Domestic Orbits looks at the different scales by which domestic labor is erased by architects and planners.  It studies the architectural plans of five well known projects from a perspective that aims highlight the social and economic relationships involved.  In that sense, Domestic Orbits sketches a counter-history of modern architecture that questions the duality of the visible and invisible: those who count and those whose not."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Title from cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Domestic orbits; title: Casa-Estudio Luis Barragán; title: Condominio Varsovia; title: Anatole France 71 and 90; title: Bosque Real; title: Torre Cervantes; title: Voices spinning off the orbit : testimonials from three domestic workers.