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Leslie Kanes Weisman (born 1945) is an American architecture educator, activist and community planning department official. Weisman was one of the founding faculty members of the New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Architecture in Newark, New Jersey. She was also one of the founders of the Women's School of Planning and Architecture.

Life

Weisman was born in 1945. She was an assistant professor at University of Detroit from 1968 to 1975. Weisman joined the faculty at New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1975 as an associate professor of architecture. She served as associate dean from 1984 to 1985 and was promoted to professor of architecture in 1998. Weisman was a visiting professor of women's studies at Brooklyn College in 1980.

She was involved with Heresies 11, "Making Room: Women and Architecture". She has been instrumental in creating and promoting universal design applications for design practice and pedagogical models for design teaching.

She retired around 2000, and moved to Southold, New York, where she has played an instrumental role on the local zoning commission.

Selected works

Books

• Weisman, Leslie (1992). Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-made Environment. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-01849-7.
• Agrest, Diana; Weisman, Leslie; Conway, Patricia, eds. (1996). Sex of Architecture. Contributors: Beatriz Colomina, Diana Balmori, Jennifer Bloomer, Joan Ockman. Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 978-0-8109-2683-7.

Journal articles

• Weisman, Leslie Kanes. Our Architecture Ourselves, On The Issues Magazine (Winter 2009).
• Interview with Cristina Cerulli and Florian Kossak, "Educator, Activist, Politician', field: a free journal for architecture, 3 (2009)
• "Women's Environmental rights." Making Room: Women and Architecture. Heresies no. 11 (1981: 6-8).
• Weisman, Leslie Kanes and Noel Phyllis Birkby. "Women's Fantasy Environment: Notes on a Project in Process." Heresies 2(May 1977): 116-117.
• "Patriarchitecture and Feminist Fantasies." Liberation 19, no 8 & 9 (Spring 1976): 45-52.
• "A Woman Built Environment: Constructive Fantasies, Quest 2, no. 1 (Summer 1975): 7-18.

References

1. "Women's School of Planning and Architecture Records". Sophia Smith Collection. Five College Archives & Manuscript Collections. Archived from the original on 2014-05-17.
2. "How Feminists Sought to Make Architecture a Truly Collective Endeavor". Metropolis. August 8, 2019.
3. "Weisman, Leslie Kanes | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
4. "Women's Environmental Rights: A Manifesto" (PDF). Heresies. 3 (3): 6–8. 1981.
5. "The Environmental is Political: Universal Design and Social Sustainability with Leslie Kanes Weisman". Universal Design News. Archived from the original on 2014-05-17.
6. Young, Beth (January 5, 2011). "2010 Public Servant of the Year: Leslie Kanes Weisman". Suffolk Times.
7. Reviews of Discrimination by Design:
   • Beavis, Mary Ann (June 1994). Canadian Journal of Urban Research. 3 (1): 100–101. JSTOR 44320319.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Dubrow, Gail Lee (1993). Journal of Planning Education and Research. 12 (2): 172–174. doi:10.1177/0739456X9301200216.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Favro, Diane (September 1994). The Journal of American History. 81 (2): 834–835. doi:10.2307/2081424. JSTOR 2081424.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Feldman, Roberta M. (Fall 1993). Design Issues. 9 (2): 83–84. doi:10.2307/1511681. JSTOR 1511681.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Guilfoil, Joanne K. (1994). "Review". Journal of Social Theory in Art Education. 14: 191–196.
   • Huxley, Margo (July 1996). Women's Studies International Forum. 19 (4): 474–475. doi:10.1016/0277-5395(96)82379-x.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Keigher, Sharon M. (March 1993). Contemporary Sociology. 22 (2): 173–175. doi:10.2307/2075723. JSTOR 2075723.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Leavitt, Jacqueline (November 1993). "Designing appropriate space". Journal of Architectural Education. 47 (2): 113–114. doi:10.2307/1425172. JSTOR 1425172.
   • Meyer, Esther da Costa (Spring 1993). NWSA Journal. 5 (1): 127–129. JSTOR 4316247.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Nierhaus, Irene (January 1994). L'Homme. 5 (1). doi:10.7767/lhomme.1994.5.1.165. S2CID 147643786.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Seager, Joni (January 1993). "Blueprints for inequality". The Women's Review of Books. 10 (4): 1+3–4. doi:10.2307/4021423. JSTOR 4021423.
   • Shane, Grahame (1997). Harvard Design Magazine (1).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Somerick, Nancy M. (December 1994). Public Relations Review. 20 (4): 402–403. doi:10.1016/0363-8111(94)90105-8.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Stall, Susan (Spring 1995). Journal of Architectural and Planning Research. 12 (1): 87–89. JSTOR 43030164.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • "Shorter reviews". International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 18 (4): 713–716. December 1994. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.1994.tb00296.x.
8. Reviews of Sex of Architecture:
   • Hanna, Bronwyn (November 1996). "Review". Architectural Theory Review. 2 (1): 212–215. doi:10.1080/13264829609478312. ISSN 1326-4826.
   • Lahiji, Nadir; Friedman, D. S. (1999). "Review". AA Files (40): 84–87. ISSN 0261-6823. JSTOR 29544180.
   • Crout, Durham (2000). "Review". Journal of Architectural and Planning Research. 17 (3): 260–267. ISSN 0738-0895. JSTOR 43030543.
   • Rosner, Victoria (2000). "Review". Signs. 25 (3): 981–986. doi:10.1086/495507. ISSN 0097-9740. JSTOR 3175442.

• 1945 births
• Living people
• Architectural theoreticians
• Architecture educators
• New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty
• 20th-century American women writers
• 21st-century American women writers
• 20th-century American educators
• 21st-century American educators
• 21st-century American women educators
• 20th-century American women educators
• American women academics