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The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture

Author/EditorSokolina, Anna (International Archive of (Author)
ISBN: 9780367232344
Pub Date29/06/2021
BindingHardback
Pages406
Dimensions (mm)254(h) * 178(w)
Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture illuminates the names of pioneering women who over time continue to foster, shape, and build cultural, spiritual, and physical environments in diverse regions around the globe.
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The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture illuminates the names of pioneering women who over time continue to foster, shape, and build cultural, spiritual, and physical environments in diverse regions around the globe. It uncovers the remarkable evolution of women's leadership, professional perspectives, craftsmanship, and scholarship in architecture from the preindustrial age to the present.


The book is organized chronologically in five parts, outlining the stages of women's expanding engagement, leadership, and contributions to architecture through the centuries. It contains twenty-nine chapters written by thirty-three recognized scholars committed to probing broader topographies across time and place and presenting portraits of practicing architects, leaders, teachers, writers, critics, and other kinds of professionals in the built environment. The intertwined research sets out debates, questions, and projects around women in architecture, stimulates broader studies and discussions in emerging areas, and becomes a catalyst for academic programs and future publications on the subject.


The novelty of this volume is in presenting not only a collection of case studies but in broadening the discipline by advancing an incisive overview of the topic as a whole. It is an invaluable resource for architectural historians, academics, students, and professionals.

The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture illuminates the names of pioneering women who over time continue to foster, shape, and build cultural, spiritual, and physical environments in diverse regions around the globe. It uncovers the remarkable evolution of women's leadership, professional perspectives, craftsmanship, and scholarship in architecture from the preindustrial age to the present.


The book is organized chronologically in five parts, outlining the stages of women's expanding engagement, leadership, and contributions to architecture through the centuries. It contains twenty-nine chapters written by thirty-three recognized scholars committed to probing broader topographies across time and place and presenting portraits of practicing architects, leaders, teachers, writers, critics, and other kinds of professionals in the built environment. The intertwined research sets out debates, questions, and projects around women in architecture, stimulates broader studies and discussions in emerging areas, and becomes a catalyst for academic programs and future publications on the subject.


The novelty of this volume is in presenting not only a collection of case studies but in broadening the discipline by advancing an incisive overview of the topic as a whole. It is an invaluable resource for architectural historians, academics, students, and professionals.

Anna Sokolina is an architect, historian, curator, and founding Chair of SAH Women in Architecture AG, who also contributes to the advisory boards of the International Archive of Women in Architecture and Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture (ed. Lori Brown and Karen Burns, forthcoming). She holds a PhD in Theory and History of Architecture and Landmarks Preservation from VNIITAG branch of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (1992). She graduated from the Moscow Institute of Architecture (1980) and New York University SPS (2001) and interned at the Guggenheim Museum New York, Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and the Public Design Commission at the NYC Mayor's Office, and has contributed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1999-2007), the Morgan Library and Museum, and ARTMargins. She worked as an architect and Research associate at CNIITIA/VNIITAG, as Curator of Exhibitions at Tabakman Museum, and was a member of the architecture faculty at Miami University, where she also curated the Cage Gallery. She was the first independent woman curator of the itinerant Russian Paper Architecture exhibitions in Germany and France (1992-1993) and the first lecturer from Russia invited after the collapse of the USSR by the European Academy of the Urban Environment (EA.UE Berlin) in the UNESCO program "Sustainable Settlements." She has received seventeen grants and awards; her 104 artworks are housed in twenty-three collections; and her over ninety publications include Architecture and Anthroposophy (ed., 2001, 2010, e-access 2019), and Building Utopia: Architecture of the GDR (in progress).

PART I Women in the Early Profession and Leadership: Preindustrial Age to Early Twentieth Century From Domestic Realms into Public Life and Culture 1 Did Women Design or Build Before the Industrial Age? 2 For Homeowners and Housekeepers: The Architecture of Minerva Parker Nichols in Late Nineteenth-Century America 3 Nell Brooker Mayhew and the Arts and Crafts Movement in America 4 "Designing Houses Is Like Having Babies": Verna Cook and the Practice of Architecture in the 1920s and 1930s 5 The Forgotten Art of Florence Hope Luscomb 6 "This Is Not a Success Story": Florence Fulton Hobson, Architect in Northern Ireland PART II Women in the Modern Movement: The First Half of the Twentieth Century The Limits of Engagement in the Architectural Profession and the Agenda of "Modern" Work 7 Eileen Gray: Invitation to an Intellectual Journey 8 Blocks Versus Knots: Bauhaus Women Weavers' Contribution to Architecture's Canon 9 Lutah Maria Riggs: A Portrait of a Modern Revival-Style Architect 10 Regarding De Stijl through a Gender Perspective: The Life and Work of Han Schroder 11 Reclaiming the Work of Women Architects in Mandatory Palestine 12 More Than Shelter: Olive Tjaden's Suburban Projects in New York and Florida PART III Women in the Context of Mid-Century Modernism Mainstream Practice Formations, Public Engagement, and Women's Wider Agency in the Field 13 Lois Davidson Gottlieb: A Woman Fellow 14 Consulting and Curating the Modern Interior: The Work of Hilde Reiss, 1943-1946 15 Architect, Partner, Wife: Mid-Century Husband-and-Wife Partnerships 16 "Mrs. Meric Callery" 17 Katherine Morrow Ford: Designs for Living 18 Architect, Builder, Client, Secretary: The Women of the Sarasota School PART IV Women in Architecture of the Late Twentieth Century Architectural Work and Urban Planning: Drawing, Building, Educating, Archiving 19 Together Not Apart: Creating Constellations in Learning from an Archive 20 Women's Contributions to Manitoba's Built Environment: The Case of Green Blankstein Russell 21 Uncovering Her Archive: Ayla Karacabey in Postwar Architecture 22 Restless: Drawn by Zaha Hadid 23 "Something More Solid and Massive": The Architecture of Lauretta Vinciarelli 24 Flora Ruchat-Roncati and the "Will to Keep Working" Irina Davidovici and Katia Frey PART V Women in Architecture: From the 1960s to the Present Breaking the Glass Ceiling 25 Expanding the Legacy: The International Archive of Women in Architecture 26 Breaking the Silence: Women in Russian Architecture 27 Leaving a Lasting Legacy. Beverly Willis: Groundbreaking Architect, Artist, Designer, Filmmaker, and Philanthropist 28 Reflections: Creating an Architectural Practice 29 Collaborations: The Architecture and Art of Sigrid Miller Pollin

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