Journal articles: 'Women architects'

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Devlin, Ann Sloan. "Architects: Gender-Role and Hiring Decisions." Psychological Reports 81, no. 2 (October 1997): 667–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1997.81.2.667.

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To examine architects' judgments of male and female applicants represented by the information in resumes, 204 architects, 156 men and 48 women, licensed in the state of Connecticut participated in a 2(job level) by 2(sex) between-subjects study. Architects were asked how they would rate applicants' potential (including the decision to hire) and gender-role characteristics judged on the basis of one-page resumes. Architects randomly assigned resumes for one of four evaluation conditions (intern or senior architect; male or female), rated the applicant on seven job-related characteristics, e.g., technical skill, potential for advancement, and completed the Bern Sex-role Inventory as they thought items applied to the applicant. Analysis indicated that male architect respondents were more likely to hire male applicants than female applicants as senior architects and that female applicants were judged to be as masculine-typed as were male applicants.

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Lakštauskienė, Violeta. "WOMEN ARCHITECTS: HISTORY OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND PRACTICE / MOTERIS ARCHITEKTĖ: PROFESINIO IŠSILAVINIMO IR VEIKLOS RAIDA." Mokslas – Lietuvos ateitis 7, no. 1 (May 6, 2015): 78–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/mla.2015.736.

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The article focuses on the development of activities performed by women architects in Lithuania. For a broader understanding of the object of study, the author also analysed analogous processes that took place in the US and Europe. This paper presents an overview of creative work and achievements of significant female architects. The purpose of this historical analysis of women in architecture is to introduce the first female architects in the US, Europe and Lithuania and to determine formation and development of women in architectural education, professional practice and their recognition. Analizuojma moterų dalyvavimo ir veiklos architektūroje raida Lietuvoje. Minimi analogiški aptariamojo laikotarpio procesai JAV ir Europoje. Apžvelgiama žymesnių architekčių kūrybinė veikla ir laimėjimai. Moterų pasireiškimo architektūroje istorinės raidos analizės tikslas – pristatyti pirmąsias JAV, Europos ir Lietuvos architektes, moterų architektūros srityje išsilavinimo, praktinės veiklos ir profesinio pripažinimo raidą.

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Fowler, Bridget, and Fiona Wilson. "Women Architects and Their Discontents." Sociology 38, no. 1 (February 2004): 101–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038504039363.

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Fowler, Bridget, and Fiona M. Wilson. "Women Architects and Their Discontents." Architectural Theory Review 17, no. 2-3 (August 2012): 199–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2012.744149.

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Thomas, Katie Lloyd. "Where Are the Women Architects?" Architectural Research Quarterly 20, no. 2 (June 2016): 178–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135516000385.

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S. Kharsade, Bhalchandra, Sakshi Shah, and Farrukh Ali. "Postural Awareness Among Architects with Musculoskeletal Pain - A Cross Sectional Study." International Journal of Health Sciences and Research 13, no. 6 (June 19, 2023): 282. http://dx.doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20230645.

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Musculoskeletal pain is a substantial health concern for architects. To meet a work requirement, the architect must adjust and adapt to various postures at work. So, the current research aimed to find postural awareness among architects with musculoskeletal pain. Material and Method: This cross-sectional study included 97 participants with backgrounds as architects. Both male and women participants were included in this cross-sectional study. Participants ranged in age and gender. A postural awareness scale is used to measure postural awareness. Results: Data were analyzed employing the Statistical Chi-square test and One-Sample-t test. In our investigation, the t-test produced a significant statistical result with a p-value below the 5% significance level (i.e., 0.001 < 0.05). Conclusion: Based on the current findings, it can be concluded that architects with musculoskeletal pain were significant awareness of their posture. Key words: postural awareness, musculoskeletal pain, architects

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Hervás, Josenia, and Silvia Blanco-Agüeira. "Women Architects outside the Spanish Borders: Patriarchal Models at International Congresses (1939–1975)." Arts 9, no. 1 (February 20, 2020): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts9010026.

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In the complex political scene surrounding the death of Francisco Franco, Spanish female architects were crossing borders to try and understand what was happening abroad. This article provides unpublished data on the various experiences of female graduates in Spain when they shared their enthusiasm, concerns and energy with colleagues from other countries at international conferences that took place before the arrival of democracy. For almost four decades, between 1939 and 1975, Spanish female architects were limited by the patriarchal system’s own barriers and by the political barriers imposed by Franco’s regime. This paper aims to organise and articulate women’s memories, proving the implicit acceptance of patriarchal ideas and models at the start of the 20th century, the timidity of the congress resolutions in the sixties and the later awakening provided by UIFA (Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes) congresses. Finally, it is worth examining the metamorphosis that occurred in free western societies in the 20th century, with respect to the role played by women as a user and as a professional, through the attentive gaze of women architects from a nondemocratic country.

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Hedges, Susan. "Women architects in the modern movement." Fabrications 29, no. 2 (May 4, 2019): 306–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2019.1590761.

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Treadwell, Sarah, and Nicole Allan. "Limited Visibility: Portraits of Women Architects." Architectural Theory Review 17, no. 2-3 (August 2012): 280–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2012.736870.

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Willis, Julie. "FOUR EARLY WOMEN ARCHITECTS IN VICTORIA." Architectural Theory Review 1, no. 1 (April 1996): 95–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13264829609478265.

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James Chakraborty, Kathleen. "The Outsider as insider." arq.urb, no. 35 (December 14, 2022): 5–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.37916/arq.urb.vi35.624.

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The architects Louis Kahn (1901-1974) and Chloethiel Woodard Smith (1910-1992) were near contemporaries whose networks overlapped in multiple ways. Kahn’s best buildings offer transcendent experiences of community; Smith’s remain cherished, if far more ordinary, places to live and work. Although the level of fame the profession bestowed upon him eluded her, in the 1960s and early 1970s her singularity as a female architect working on a national scale led her to be frequently profiled in the popular press. Kahn began as an outsider because of his working-class Jewish background; Smith remained one because she was a woman, although she was highly ambivalent about, and -- when well enough established -- outrightly dismissive of being labeled a woman or – worse yet – lady architect. Each also benefited from their status as relatively privileged white Americans, while building for African Americans and in the Global South. Tracing the arc of their careers captures the opportunities for upward mobility that the postwar boom created in the United States, as well as ones that the Cold War bestowed upon its best-connected architects, even as it illuminates the obstacles that continued to hinder the progression of women in the profession.

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Savitri, Rika Triyunia. "GENDER EQUALITY ISSUES IN THE ARCHITECTURE PROFESSION." Journal of Development and Integrated Engineering 1, no. 2 (December 26, 2021): 111–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/jodie.v1i2.49245.

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This article discusses gender equality in the architectural profession. A number of studies that have been conducted by previous researchers show that architects are a profession that is famous for its macho culture which is dominated by men. Women who are involved in this profession still experience discrimination and barriers to work. This article discusses gender equality in the architectural profession, both in a narrative and in the world of practice. This article uses a qualitative descriptive method by referring to a literature review through several online references, one of which is Google Scholar, which was published from 2015 to 2022. The results of the literature review, it can be concluded that there is still a gender gap in the architectural profession. Nevertheless, several female architectural figures who can prove that women have produced architectural works that are not inferior to male architects. Of course, in the process of gender equality, female architects are faced with several obstacles and problems that occur in the world of practice such as inappropriate work wages, the occurrence of sexism, and inappropriate working hours. Keywords:Gender Equality, Architect

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Pérez-Moreno, Lucía C., and Luis M. Lus-Arana. "The Image of Women Architects in Films, 1912–1943: New Careers and Stereotyped Femininities." Arts 12, no. 1 (December 23, 2022): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts12010004.

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Contrary to what might be expected, portrayals of women architects in films can be found as far back as the early decades of the twentieth century. In this article, the authors review a few films released between 1912 and 1943 in which one of the characters is a woman architect, focusing on three of them: Dr. Monica (1934), Woman Chases Man (1937) and The Lamp Still Burns (1943). The article explores the ways in which architecture was used by screenwriters and directors as a suitable vehicle to portray the ‘new woman’, as well as the conflicts that arise when a woman practices a traditionally male profession. It analyses the differences and limitations of these depictions, and the stereotypes regarding femininity that permeated these works of fiction.

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Wagenfeld, Amy, and Daniel Winterbottom. "Coping on the inside: Design for therapeutic incarceration interventions - A case study." Work 68, no. 1 (January 29, 2021): 97–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/wor-203360.

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BACKGROUND: Adjusting to incarceration is traumatic. An under-utilized strategy understood to buffer and counteract the negative impacts of incarceration are nature interventions. OBJECTIVE: Outcomes of an interdisciplinary design studio course focused on developing masterplans for a women’s prison in the Pacific Northwest (US) are presented. Course objectives included comprehension and application of therapeutic and culturally expressive design principles to increase the benefits of environmental design within a carceral setting; collaboration, developing a deeper, more representative understanding of how design processes can improve the lives of marginalized populations; and enhancing design skills, including at masterplan and schematic scale using an iterative process and reflection. METHODS: A landscape architect, occupational therapist, and architect teaching team, with support from architects and justice specialists facilitated an elective design studio course to redesign the Washington Corrections Center for Women campus. RESULTS: In a ten-week academic quarter, six student design teams created conceptual masterplans for therapeutic outdoor spaces at the Washington Corrections Center for Women. Students presented their plans to prison staff, current and ex-offenders, and architects and landscape architects in practice, and then received positive feedback. CONCLUSION: Despite well-documented need for and value of nature interventions to improve health and wellbeing for everyone regardless of circumstance or situation, the project awaits administrative approval to move forward to installation.

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Stratigakos, Despina. "Architects in Skirts: The Public Image of Women Architects in Wilhelmine Germany." Journal of Architectural Education 55, no. 2 (November 2001): 90–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/104648801753199518.

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Cordero Ampuero, Angel. "Women Architects in the Transition: Comparative Analysis of ‘Palomeras’ Dwellings, Madrid (Spain)." Arts 9, no. 2 (April 14, 2020): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts9020048.

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This study examines the contribution of women architects to Palomeras operation projects in the context of the Spanish transition and the Madrid housing emergency in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Works were selected according to their professional impacts; 11 projects were analyzed by redrawing and studying the main types of dwelling. The current reading interpretation—according to a gender perspective—focuses on reproduction of tasks in main spaces at home: in-depth testing of the scope of kitchen surface and glazing ratios, as well as direct lighting, views and minimum distance of housekeeping paths. Furthermore, the comparative and qualitative analysis was based on meaningful data, which yield subtle but expressive results about the consequences of gender-inclusive architect teams. Thus, it is possible to approach and discuss the role played by some women architects of the Madrid School after second-wave feminism, in a key time for gender change in architectural practice in Spain.

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Benhamouche, Sanaa, Malika Lebdiri, Mustapha Benhamouche, and Inès Sanchez De Madariaga. "Women Architects in Practice: Opportunities and Challenges in Algeria." International Society for the Study of Vernacular Settlements 10, no. 8 (August 10, 2023): 236–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.61275/isvsej-2023-10-08-17.

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A significant imbalance exists between the number of female graduates from Algerian universities in different regions and registered women in the National Board of Accredited Architects. In this context, this paper examines the issue of the under-representation of accredited women architects in Algeria. The research employs an online survey as a methodology. Three hundred and one women architects were sent an online questionnaire. According to the survey, this discrepancy is attributable to the withdrawal of some women from the job market due to external factors and intrinsic constraints and the migration of another segment to other fields allied to architecture. Among the challenges facing women are the heavy duties of the architects, the stressful and time-consuming nature of their work, and the persistence of the male-dominance. However, besides the ever-narrowing gap between practicing male and female architects, other emerging factors in the field appear to have promising prospects for women. These include the gradual shift to remote work, flexible routines at local and global levels, and the flourishing of new innovative fields allied to architecture that favor women.

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Ivanović-Vojvodić, Jelena, and Milena Zindović. "Women in architecture in Serbia." Tehnika 75, no. 4 (2020): 379–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/tehnika2003379i.

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This article presents women's work in architecture in Serbia since the beginning of the 20th century, until today. First part of the article is dedicated to the historical review of some of the important women architects and their work and accomplishments, based on the data gathered through the project Women in Architecture, which explores this topic since 2013. The second part of the article is a review of contemporary women's architectural production, since 1990. until today. Considering the large number of active women architects and their production, the valorization of the authors and work is based primarily on important professional awards received by women architects in the last 30 years. This review showcases the development of architecture in Serbia, as well as the important, although often neglected in academic circles, women's contribution and creativity in this field.

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B. Ladinski, Vladimir. "Early Engineers and Architects Born on the Territory of Present North Macedonia." History of Engineering Sciences and Institutions of Higher Education 7 (October 25, 2023): 98–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.7250/hesihe.2023.007.

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This article presents the initial results of the ongoing research into the early engineers and architects born in the past on the territory of present North Macedonia, who graduated before the establishment of the country on 2 August 1944, prior to the founding of the first Technical Faculty in Skopje in 1949. The majority of the identified engineers and architects were men who graduated within the interwar period from the Technical Faculty at the University of Belgrade (Serbia), founded in 1846. Women started entering engineering and architecture in the 1930s. Some of the early graduates pursued their professional careers elsewhere. Three graduates of Riga Polytechnic Institute (Latvia) were identified, who had their degrees recognized by the Technical Faculty in Belgrade, as well as one Serbian woman, an engineer, and an architect who briefly lived in Riga within the researched period. This study contributes to the history of engineering and architecture in North Macedonia.

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Hanna, Bronwyn. "Australia's Early Women Architects: Milestones and Achievements." Fabrications 12, no. 1 (June 2002): 27–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2002.10525160.

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Caven, Val. "Constructing a career: women architects at work." Career Development International 9, no. 5 (August 2004): 518–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13620430410550763.

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Ruane, Caitrlona. "Women in belfast: Architects of social change." Women: A Cultural Review 1, no. 1 (April 1990): 60–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09574049008578022.

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Marciani, Florencia, and Inés Moisset. "Arquitectas en la web." Hábitat y Sociedad, no. 11 (2018): 223–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/habitatysociedad.2018.i11.13.

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Chernenko, A. A., and A. D. Stoianova. "LITTLE WOMEN IN BIG ARCHITECTURE." Regional problems of architecture and urban planning, no. 16 (December 23, 2022): 152–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.31650/2707-403x-2022-16-152-158.

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The history of architecture knows a lot of man’s names. It’s not surprising, even though most of the history of worldly professions was occupied by the people themselves, but women didn’t have the right to take away the space and introduce such contagious places for us, like theaters, musical comedy and other kinds of controversy. The article bears the knowledge of the nature and reveals the role of women in the architecture of the New World, tells about historical turns that redevelop the development in this sphere. A gendered approach is first traced to Jane Jacobs' book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, where she criticizes modernist urban planners for cultivating «male experience» or «male ways of life» while disassociating vital functions of the city. In contrast to men's daily practices, the traditional «women's experience» in public spheres includes a significant share of the private sphere: housekeeping, shopping, raising children, caring for the elderly and the sick. Today, the situation in the world favors gender equality, at least when it comes to choosing professions and positions. At the Faculty of Architecture, more girls are entering universities all over the world. However, the way their career develops afterwards is alarming. It is difficult for a woman to combine her personal life and work as an architect, so few manage to apply the knowledge gained at the university in practice. This is also confirmed by the figures of the Federal Chamber of Architects (Bundesarchitektenkammer): in 2016, the share of female architects in the field of construction and freelance employees was approximately one fifth. Among city planners, the share of women is only nine percent. Since the 20th century, small women have taken a big step in the contribution of world architecture, confidently moving forward according to new world trends.

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Heynen, Hilde, and Lucía Pérez-Moreno. "Narrating Women Architects’ Histories. Paradigms, Dilemmas, and Challenges." arq.urb, no. 35 (December 14, 2022): 110–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.37916/arq.urb.vi35.635.

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Women studies in architecture have been inspired by different ways of thinking, which can be summarized in four ‘paradigms’: difference thinking, equality thinking, constructionist thinking and intersectionalist thinking. By revising seminal books, articles and exhibitions, this paper explores the historiographical dilemmas and challenges that narrating women architects’ histories involves, focusing on two of the most relevant ones: the question of authorship and the canonical understanding of the architecture as the design of new architectural objects. The paper discusses the impact of women studies in art on the methodologies used in narrating women architects, but also presents the differences that should be taken into account when exploring the work of women artist and architects.

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Davidi, Sigal. "By women for women: modernism, architecture, and gender in building the new Jewish society in Mandatory Palestine." Architectural Research Quarterly 20, no. 3 (September 2016): 217–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135516000452.

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This article explores issues of gender and modern architecture in Mandatory Palestine in the context of 1920s and 1930s modernism. Women architects, newly immigrated from Germany, collaborated with WIZO, Women's International Zionist Organisation, in building Domestic Science and Agriculture training schools for Jewish immigrant women in the country. WIZO adopted the concept of the modern domestic sphere, particularly the rational kitchen, believing that a modern and efficient household will benefit women and society as a whole. Thus, their planned schools were to be modern both in appearance and in their built-up space: rational, airy and full of light. The women architects who studied and worked in Germany prior to their immigration, emphasised these modernist concepts in their design. These early ambitious architectural achievements by women for women were unique in the context of modernism and helped structure the national identity of the ‘New re-formed domestic woman’ in Mandatory Palestine.

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Barros dos Reis, Patricia Orfila. "Diverse Perspectives. A Review of Women Architects: Mode(s) of (R)existing. Reflections Based on a Cycle of Talks." Arts 9, no. 1 (February 26, 2020): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts9010030.

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The book Women Architects: Mode(s) of (R)existing. Reflections Based on a Cycle of Talks (2018, edited by Patrícia Santos Pedrosa, Joana Pestana Lages, and Lia Gil Antunes, Lisbon, Women in Architecture Association, 100p), published as a bilingual collection (Portuguese and English), is structured around thirteen narratives by women architects, from a cycle of talks which took place from September 2017 to March 2018 in Lisbon. The book presents a concise record of the event’s purpose, which was to initiate a debate that takes into account both the gender perspective and women architects’ invisibility, as well as their multiple implications in the creation of Portuguese architecture, cities and territories within a traditionally male profession.

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Muxí, Zaida. "C. ESPEGEL - Women Architects in the Modern Movement." ZARCH, no. 13 (October 8, 2019): 301. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2019133973.

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Boulgarides, James D. "Success Patterns of Professional Women: A Study of 452 Women Architects." Equal Opportunities International 6, no. 4 (April 1987): 7–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb010473.

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Wasilah, Wasilah, and Andi Andi Hildayanti. "ARCHITECTURAL PERSPECTIVE OF GENDER ROLE IN DIGITAL ERA." JURNAL SIPAKALEBBI 4, no. 1 (July 1, 2020): 243–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.24252/jsipakallebbi.v4i1.14488.

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Many influential architects—many of them female—have been able to change how the world sees architectural design and the built environment. Their works are masterpieces that have not only been able to transform how the world understands architecture, but have also forefronted gender equality. This study thus seeks to forefront the building design of female architects who have influenced world civilization. Using a case study method, this research explains the architectural flow adopted by women architects, as well as the function, design, and characteristics of their works. It shows that women such as Julia Morgan, Zaha Hadid, and Norma Merrick Sklarek have been able to balance and inform urban development around the world, providing role models for young female architects in the digital era . Publication Rationale: We desire to show that gender equality exists in the world of architecture, and that the works of female architects have been able to influence world civilization.

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Ruudi, Ingrid. "Adopting or Dodging the Heroic Model: Professional Trajectories of Estonian Women Architects." Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 92 (April 2024): 73–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/fejf2024.92.ruudi.

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The article focuses on gender-specific experiences of Estonian women architects in the late Soviet and post-Soviet Estonia. Architecture has been, and to a great extent still remains, a rather masculinist field, adhering to an image of heroic individualist creative genius and supporting a very demanding and uncompromising work culture. These preconceptions often make it complicated to forge different career paths or to appreciate alternative or more cooperational modes of practice. The article asks if and to what extent the unwritten rules and prejudices have affected Estonian women architects’ experiences in studying architecture, establishing their careers, combining the responsibilities of professional and private lives, and building up their image as (women) designers in a general sense. Based on in-depth interviews with 16 professional architects aged 33–92, the article also highlights the differences and similarities of practising architecture as a woman in the Soviet and post-Soviet social and economic contexts, mapping them onto findings of international feminist research in the context of both Western Europe and the former Eastern Bloc. Additionally, the article refers to the productive possibilities of oral history as a method to complement and challenge the conventional architecture historical writing as well as the intersubjective character of the narratives thus constructed.

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Gutiérrez-Mozo, María-Elia, José Parra-Martínez, and Ana Gilsanz-Díaz. "Women and the Making of the University of Alicante Campus: Critical Reappraisals of Modern Architecture (1982–1999)." Arts 9, no. 2 (April 30, 2020): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts9020057.

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A stroll around the University of Alicante campus is like a journey through the history of Spanish architecture of the last 40 years, as many of its buildings exemplify the best production of the period. This legacy also tells a story about the role played by female architects within the profession. In fact, a gender reading reveals that only two women, Pilar Vázquez Carrasco, the architect of the Faculty of Sciences (FS, 1982) and the Social Club I (1987), and Dolores Alonso Vera, responsible for the Higher Polytechnic School IV (HPS, 1999), have designed structures on the campus over almost four decades and out of a total of more than 50 buildings. The FS is an example of structural sincerity whose brick and concrete materials and externalisation of services provide Brutalist echoes. The HPS IV is a design exercise consisting of a series of elegant, inviting volumes and open spaces intertwined with the campus garden. This essay focuses on the comparative analysis of these two award-winning works to unveil those contributions that female authorship has brought to their solutions by relating them to comparable buildings in space, time and type, but designed by male architects.

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Matthewson, Gill. "The gendered attrition of architects in Australia." Architectural Research Quarterly 21, no. 2 (June 2017): 171–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135517000367.

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That architects leave the profession is something that seems ‘known’. In addition, there has been continuous concern that women in particular leave. However, the extent of departure is unclear. Much of the information around these observations come from surveys, is anecdotal or study women in isolation from men. This paper provides some firmer data on the movement of men and women into and out of the profession using Australia as a case study. It collates and analyses historical and contemporary data to delineate the complex patterns of participation in and leaving of architecture.While the sources of data are often limited and approximate, this analysis nonetheless highlights a number of factors affecting the tenure of architects in their profession. The economy is an obvious factor and the data mirrors the economic fate of the country. The paper firmly demonstrates that gender is a factor with a strong impact on leaving the profession – a movement that clearly adversely affects the diversity of the profession. A further factor in leaving is age, which interacts with gender: women begin to leave when young and men when older. Diversity is increasingly proving to be an important factor in the ability of an organisation or a profession to survive, let alone meet, the challenges and opportunities of the globalised twenty-first century.The paper concludes with a plea for better data sources to better clarify how, and to what extent, biases nudge many architects out of the profession. Understanding the extent and nature of these biases helps the formulation of tactics to foster greater diversity to engender a more resilient profession.

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Willis, Julie. "INVISIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS: The Problem of History and Women Architects." Architectural Theory Review 3, no. 2 (November 1998): 57–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13264829809478345.

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Devlin, Patrick, Rachel Douglas, and Tom Reynolds. "Collaborative design of Older Women ' s CoHousing." Working with Older People 19, no. 4 (December 14, 2015): 188–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/wwop-08-2015-0018.

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Purpose – CoHousing provides a new approach in the UK to older people’s housing, and meets a clear demand for similarly minded groups of individuals who would like to grow old together. The purpose of this paper is to explore how a Collaborative Design Process (CDP) can work, as applied to a soon-to-be realised project in North London. Design/methodology/approach – Report by the architects with comment from an end user on a CDP including end users, architect, developer and housing association management. Findings – A group of individuals that has invested in building decision-making capacity can participate meaningfully in the design of their future homes. Research limitations/implications – This research was focused on one development, so work on a wider range of projects would help test its validity. Social implications – Older Women’s CoHousing (OWCH), and similar projects, demonstrate an appetite for: mutually supportive, intentional communities; planned downsizing and contemporary, sociable design for the third age of life. Originality/value – The CDP developed for OWCH was comprehensively documented. It has already been adapted for further cohousing developments, and is intended to continue to evolve with the demands made on it.

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Siefert, Rebecca. "The Women of Chicago Public Housing. Architects of their Own ‘Homeplace’." ZARCH, no. 18 (September 2, 2022): 198–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2022185884.

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The story of public housing in Chicago, and the rest of the United States for that matter, tends to fixate on negative images of housing projects built between c. 1940-1960, like Cabrini-Green or Wentworth Gardens. Now that so many of the buildings have been demolished (or “redeveloped”) and scholars, institutions, and the general public have begun to untangle the complexity of the history of public housing in the U.S., it is time to move beyond the damaging narratives and negative imagery to better understand how women persevered and adapted to ensure they and their families not only had basic needs met, but also had access to safe spaces, key facilities, and opportunities for community-building, joy, and pride in their home. This paper explores connections between issues of architecture and the impact of women on the design and reform of Cabrini-Green, Wentworth Gardens, and other key examples, to demonstrate how women residents helped shape the built environment of public housing in Chicago through organizing, activism, and the appropriation of space based on everyday needs and use. Through an analysis of photographs documenting the interiors of Cabrini-Green and using a theoretical framework that combines feminist theorist bell hooks’ notion of the ‘homeplace’ as a ‘site of resistance’ (1990) with architectural historian Dell Upton’s concept of the ‘cultural landscape’ (1991), this paper proposes that we modify our current definition of an “Architect” and in fact consider these public housing residents ‘architects of their own homeplace’.

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Nassauer, Joan Iverson. "Managing Career and Family: The Experience of Women Landscape Architects." Landscape Journal 4, no. 1 (1985): 31–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/lj.4.1.31.

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Vaz Milheiro, Ana, and Filipa Fiúza. "Women Architects in Portugal: Working in Colonial Africa before the Carnation Revolution (1950–1974)." Arts 9, no. 3 (July 31, 2020): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts9030086.

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How did women architects shape a modern world in the late period of Portuguese colonial Africa, just before the Carnation Revolution? The specific role of women in Portugal working in colonial African architectural culture has now started to be addressed by Portuguese and Lusophone-African historiography. During the 1950s, the presence of women in the metropolitan schools of architecture was reduced. Of those who could graduate, few actually worked as architects. Most were absorbed by the commonly feminine roles, resulting from marriage and from the ideal of family promoted by the Estado Novo dictatorship. To the ones that risked prosecution for working outside the family, the option of jobs associated with the feminine universe, such as teaching, was privileged. Among those who were emancipated from this pattern, the majority worked in familiar partnerships, regarded as an extension of marriage. The women architects that follow the husbands in their African emigration often ended up having the opportunities to work in their professional field partly due to the lack of qualified technicians, and to the high demand of commissions. This paper not only seeks to outline a perspective on these women, but also tries to understand the context of their work by presenting two case-studies in the late in the late period of Portuguese Colonisation: Maria Carlota Quintanilha and Maria Emilia Caria.

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Singh, Priyaleen. "Book Review: Madhavi Desai, Women Architects and Modernism in India: Narratives and Contemporary Practices." Social Change 47, no. 4 (December 2017): 631–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0049085717730405.

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Crane, Sheila. "Review: Glass Ceilings: Highlights from the International Archive of Women Architects." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 70, no. 2 (June 1, 2011): 265–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2011.70.2.265.

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Sherriff, Clare. "Arnold Mitchell (1863–1944): ‘Fecundity’ and ‘Versatility’ in an Early Twentieth-Century Architect." Architectural History 55 (2012): 199–235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0066622x00000101.

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The architectural historian Roderick Gradidge, referring to the 1900s, wrote that ‘in architecture there have never been such opportunities for younger men as there were at the turn of the century’. Arnold Mitchell is an architect typical of those who took advantage of such opportunities, a man (women were yet to have the chance) who saw the economic and aesthetic potential for new architecture, both nationally and internationally. Understanding the nature of architectural practice should not be reliant solely upon knowledge of the stellar architects of any given period. It depends upon integrating others, one or two rungs down the ladder but who achieved success in their own sphere, into the corpus examined, in order to achieve a fuller understanding of the profession.

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Menlioğlu, Ayşe Hilal. "MARY PEPCHINSKI, MARIANN SIMON (eds.) - Ideological Equals: Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989." ZARCH, no. 18 (September 2, 2022): 234. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2022186954.

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Mary Pepchinski, Mariann Simon (eds.)Ideological Equals: Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989Abingdon, New York: Routledge, 2017. 195 pp. Hardcover. Language: English. 52 €ISBN-10: ‏ 1472469267ISBN-13: 978-1472469267

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Konstantinovic, Dragana, and Aleksandra Terzic. "Girls build! Female architects who shaped the modern history of Novi Sad." Bulletin de l'Institut etnographique 71, no. 3 (2023): 17–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/gei2303017k.

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The recovery from the Second World War brought significant changes and the implementation of socialist ideology in Yugoslavia that went in parallel with the emancipation of women. This is particularly noticeable in the rise of women with university education and their enrolment in various occupations, such as construction engineering and architecture. The increased interest in pursuing architectural education among women has been rising since the 1950s, when they already represented 46% of total students at Belgrade University. The rebuilding of the country meant great urbanistic and architectural projects, with radical reconstruction and reconceptualization of cities and public spaces. Young female architects embraced an opportunity to be equally involved and active in urban development. Their roles and impacts were diverse: they held positions within planning institutes, architectural bureaus, and public offices in urbanism and construction; furthermore, they were responsible engineers at the construction sites; and they became teachers and educators for the new generations of architects and civil engineers. They worked individually, in pairs, and in teams, demonstrating the ability to be actively and equally involved in the profession in every possible aspect and domain. The research positions their roles and contributions within the broader framework of the process of female emancipation in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on three remarkable architects engaged in the postwar reconstruction of Novi Sad: Julka Majtan, Tatjana Vanjifatov Savic, and Milena Djordjevic.

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Martin Castillejos, Ana M., Sofia Melero Tur, and Isabel Morales Jareño. "Challenging Domesticity." International Journal of English Studies 24, no. 1 (June 28, 2024): 153–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ijes.532881.

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This article aims to reflect on how the current changes in the context of domesticity are the result of multiple contributions from women working in different fields. It is a collective effort that began to bear fruit in the second half of the 20th century, when an open war against former traditional standards already existed. In that respect, there is a reference to female artists, writers and architects from the last two centuries which calls that notion into question: from artists present at the Women House exhibition celebrated in 2018 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington D.C., USA), where many described the domestic realm as a trap to female writers and architects who equally defy and revise previous conceptions of domesticity. All in all, it seems clear that the theoretical approach that supports the need to reshape old domesticity standards works in conjunction with many hands-on efforts, some of which will be shown below.

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Pérez-Moreno, Lucía C., and Patrícia Santos Pedrosa. "Women Architects on the Road to an Egalitarian Profession—The Portuguese and Spanish Cases." Arts 9, no. 1 (March 23, 2020): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts9010040.

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The 1970s was a key decade in the path towards democracy in the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal and Spain suffered deep social, cultural and political changes, with Salazar’s and Franco’s Totalitarian Regimes ending in 1974 and 1975 respectively. In both countries, located side-by-side in the Western end of Southern Europe, democracy was finally established, marking a turning point in the liberties of all Iberian citizens, but especially in regard to women’s life and work. As the Editorial of the Special Issue ‘Becoming a Gender Equity Democracy: Women and Architecture Practice in Spain and Portugal’, this text aims to briefly present this panorama to appreciate the particularities of Portugal and Spain in relation with the delay incorporation of women to the architecture profession. It explains the gender stereotypes of Salazar’s and Franco’s Regime in order to understand the discrimination against women that they produced and how it maintained women far from the architecture profession. Therefore, it provides useful data on the incorporation of women into architectural studies in order to understand the feminization of this gendered profession in both countries. This Special Issue aims to create an opportunity for researchers and scholars to present discussions and ongoing research on how democracy affected women that wanted to practice architecture as well as architectural analysis of women architects.

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Abdulwaheed Idris, Abdulrahman, Rosli Talif, Arbaayah Ali Termizi, and Hardev Kaur Jujar. "Depiction of Women as the Primary Architects of their own Oppression: A Masculinist Critique of El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 7, no. 4 (July 1, 2018): 206. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.7n.4p.206.

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This paper focuses on the presentation of women oppression and emancipation in Nawal El Saadawi’s novel, Woman at Point Zero. The novel is specifically a call and an appeal to the women in her Egyptian society and the world at large on the need to revisit their activities and contribution toward the oppression, suppression, molestation, and brutality of their fellow women. Nawal El Saadawi presents with unique clarity, the unpleasant experience women are subjected to in her male-dominated society (Egypt). The novel aesthetically captures the oppression, sexual harassment, domestic aggression, and intimidation that the Egyptian women are subjected to in her patriarchal social milieu. Through a Masculinist study of the text, this paper not only submits that women create sa conducive atmosphere for the unhappiness of their own kinds but also subverts the author’s proposition of the way forward for the Egyptian women who are disenchanted under the atmosphere that is besieged with unfair treatment of the women. This essay unambiguously argues that El Saadawi’s understanding of women emancipation from the persistent violence on the women is outrageously momentary and unsatisfactory. Indeed, the novel has succeeded in subverting the stereotypical representation of the women as weak, passive, and physically helpless yet, the cherished long-lasting emancipation expected from her oppressed women could not be fully achieved. The novelist portrays a resilient and revolutionary heroine whose understanding of women liberation leaves every reader disconcerted. The paper examines the oppression that the heroine, Firdaus suffers from men and her fellow women and how she eventually achieved a momentary emancipation.

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B. Ladinski, Vladimir. "Pirmie inženieri un arhitekti, kas dzimuši pašreizējās Ziemeļmaķedonijas teritorijā." Inženierzinātņu un augstskolu vēsture 7 (November 2, 2023): 92–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.7250/iav.2023.007.

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Rakstā sniegts ieskats par pirmajiem inženieriem un arhitektiem tagadējās Ziemeļmaķedonijas teritorijā, kuri absolvējuši augstskolu pirms valsts izveidošanas 1944. gada 2. augustā, kā arī pirms pirmās Tehniskās fakultātes dibināšanas Skopjē 1949. gadā. Lielākā daļa apzināto inženieru un arhitektu ir vīrieši, kuri starpkaru periodā absolvējuši 1846. gadā dibināto Belgradas Universitātes (Serbija) Tehnisko fakultāti. Sievietes inženierzinātnēs un arhitektūrā ienāca pagājušā gadsimta 30. gados. Daži no pirmajiem absolventiem savu profesionālo karjeru turpināja citviet. Noskaidroti trīs Rīgas Politehniskā institūta (RPI; Latvija) absolventi, kuriem Belgradas Universitātes Tehniskā fakultāte ir atzinusi iegūto grādu, kā arī viena serbiete, inženiere un arhitekte, kura apskatāmajā periodā neilgu laiku dzīvoja Rīgā. Pētījums atklāj līdz šim maz zināmus Ziemeļmaķedonijas inženierzinātņu un arhitektūras vēstures aspektus. This article presents the initial results of the ongoing research into the early engineers and architects born in the past on the territory of present North Macedonia, who graduated before the establishment of the country on 2 August 1944, prior to the founding of the first Technical Faculty in Skopje in 1949. The majority of the identified engineers and architects were men who graduated within the interwar period from the Technical Faculty at the University of Belgrade (Serbia), founded in 1846. Women started entering engineering and architecture in the 1930s. Some of the early graduates pursued their professional careers elsewhere. Three graduates of Riga Polytechnic Institute (Latvia) were identified, who had their degrees recognized by the Technical Faculty in Belgrade, as well as one Serbian woman, an engineer, and an architect who briefly lived in Riga within the researched period. This study contributes to the history of engineering and architecture in North Macedonia.

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Stratigakos, Despina. "The Professional Spoils of War: German Women Architects and World War I." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 66, no. 4 (December 1, 2007): 464–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2007.66.4.464.

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Boulgarides, James D. "Decision Styles, Values and Characteristics of Women Architects in the United States." Equal Opportunities International 4, no. 3 (March 1985): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb010426.

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Hudson, Hugh D. "Terror in Soviet Architecture: The Murder of Mikhail Okhitovich." Slavic Review 51, no. 3 (1992): 448–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2500054.

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Throughout the 1920s and into the years of Stalinism, progressive architects in the Soviet Union sought to construct new forms of housing and settlement that would offer the best of modern technology and whose design would include provisioning of services that would allow all citizens, especially women, to partake in creative work. Schools, dining facilities, laundries, parks, cinemas, clubs and housing in a choice of styles formed the core of these architectural dreams. In the tradition of the Populists, modernist architects initially saw themselves as teachers but some came to appreciate the necessity of listening and began to learn from worker assessments of housing and urban design. This communication formed the basis for bridging, at least in housing, the cultural gap between revolutionary elites and common people. Inherent in the modernist movement in architecture, as reflected most eloquently in the work of the Association of Contemporary Architects (OSA), was a greater democratization of political and social life.

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