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Barbara Penner is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. She is author of Bathroom (Reaktion, 2014 - short-listed for the RIBA President's Awards for Outstanding University-Located Research), Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America (UPNE, 2009), and is co-editor of Gender Space Architecture (Routledge, 2000).

Barbara regularly lectures in institutions across the UK, Japan, and North America. She is a regular columnist for architectural magazines like Places and Architectural Review. She serves as a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Architecture (2011-) and Interiors: Architecture, Design, Culture (2009-) and is a Board Member of the Society of Architectural ...more

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	Gender Space Architecture by Iain Borden (Editor), Iain Borden (Editor), Barbara Penner (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.31 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects by Barbara Penner (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Adrian Forty (Editor), Olivia Horsfall Turner (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bathroom 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow by Justin McGuirk, Florian Idenburg, Edwin Heathcote 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forty Ways to Think About Architecture: Architectural History and Theory Today by Iain Borden, Barbara Penner (Goodreads Author), Murray Fraser 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender by Olga Gershenson (Editor), Barbara Penner (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tell My Sister Where I Am and Other Stories by Barbara Penner (Goodreads Author), Hanhtiet Le it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sexuality and Gender at Home: Experience, Politics, Transgression by Brent Pilkey (Editor), Rachel Scicluna (Editor), Ben Campkin (Editor), Barbara Penner (Goodreads Author) (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Managing Fibromyalgia: A Six-Week Course on Self Care 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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WHY are bathrooms interesting to you?
- Even though bathrooms are very small spaces, they are full of paradoxes! On the one hand, we like to think of them as the most private and intimate spaces in the home: they are usually the only rooms that can be locked. On the other hand, few spaces in the home are less personal, in the sense that their designs and equipment are very s Read more of this blog post »

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