WOMANIZING  NEW YORK, Una anarqueología de diagnóstico para construir una subjetividad alternativa.

Rem Koolhaas says “the fatal weakness of manifestos is their inherent lack of evidence. The problem of Manhattan is the opposite: a mountain of evidence without a manifesto,” but what if this manifesto is also feminist?

This research explores the formative but largely unrecognized role played by women; cis, trans and racialized women, in the configuration of the material and intellectual cultural productions of architectural devices in the city of New York from the colonial establishment in 1626 to the present.

Women who have been in some way invisible, removed from the leading spaces to which they belonged: Alva Vandervilt, Gertrude V. Whitney, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lillie P. Bliss, Mary Q. Sullivan, Peggy Guggenheim, Leonora Carrington, Phyllis Lambert, Storme de Larverie, Martha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Jane Jacobs, Edie Sedwigck, Susan Sontag, Patti Smith, Agnes Denes, Gloria Steinem, Wayne County, Marta Shelley, Ana Mendieta, Madelon Vriesendorp, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lena Dunham, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Jari Jones, or Daniela Ortiz, among others. They are all human agents who, through their lives, their writings, paintings, performances, poems, demands, collected spaces and public and private acts, promote an alternative vision to Koolhaas’ manhattanism, beyond that until now known from the framework hegemonic architecture. A reconfiguring atlas of protest-fragments.

This work does not question the hegemony of the text Delirious New York as an indisputable story in the specific field of architectural knowledge. This research aims to be what it lacks. The missing pages, the not introduced fragments. Layers that provide complexity and form a web of trans-scalar relationships, synchronies and also utopias. Stories that, collectively united and located in a specific territory, make sense, generating a new transfeminist and anticolonial skyline of the modern history of New York.