Join the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning as Dolores Hayden of Yale University presents "Domestic Revolutions: Spaces of Care, Then and Now.”

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During the pandemic, parents engaged with paid work at home have also struggled with essential work including cooking, cleaning, and childcare, making unpaid nurturing more visible, but few of us have the right words to name these conflicts. Debates about caring work range from campaigns for kitchen less houses and apartment hotels in the 19th century to contemporary demands for feminist housing policy and gender-neutral cities. Private or public, paid or unpaid, how has carework evolved, and what does this labor mean for architecture and urban design?

Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and American Studies Emerita at Yale University, writes about built environments and the politics of place. For over four decades, she has pioneered the study of vernacular buildings and urban landscapes to explore questions about gender, class, and race. Her award-winning books on the contested history of cities and suburbs include Seven American Utopias (MIT Press, 1976); The Grand Domestic Revolution (MIT Press, 1981); Redesigning the American Dream (W.W. Norton, 1984, rev. ed. 2002); Building Suburbia (Pantheon, 2003); and A Field Guide to Sprawl (W.W. Norton, 2004). In Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s, Hayden founded and directed The Power of Place, a non-profit that developed a downtown itinerary of urban livelihoods to promote preservation and public art recognizing the history of women and people of color. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (MIT Press, 1995) captures that work. Hayden is a former president of the Urban History Association and a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians.