Successes, strategies and struggles
Wendy Bertrand reflects on forty years of the Organization of Women Architects and Design Professionals.
Disciplining identities
Lori Brown is also giving a free public lecture as part of the ABP Agenda Series at the University of Melbourne.
Demanding Pritzker recognition for Denise Scott Brown
A new petition demanding that the Pritzker Prize Committee recognise the contribution of Denise Scott Brown is rapidly collecting signatures – add yours. The Women in Design group at Havard’s GSD has started a petition asking the Pritzker Prize Committee to recognise Denise Scott Brown alongside Robert Venturi in the 1991 Pritzker Prize. The petition follows on...
Who wants to be a Woman Architect?
We all want to be valued for the quality of our work, not framed by the fact of our gender. Karen Burns reflects on the complex interactions between culture and individual agency.
Architect Barbie « Matters of Taste
Great post on Architect Barbie, which raises all manner of issues re: gender and architecture. Architect Barbie « Matters of Taste.
A girl’s own adventure
How do anthologies of architectural theory represent feminism and gender theory? Karen Burns finds a "strangely antiquated", essentialist version at odds with the aims of the work itself.
Architect Barbie & Vitruvius
Ideal proportions. Gill Matthewson discusses Architect Barbie in her paper for Fabulation. We present some out takes.
