Women in Architecture

To position the legacy of a prolific but neglected designer within the modernist canon, we first need to scrutinize that canon from a gender-critical, feminist perspective.

Five decades ago the heartland of lesbian separatism could be found in the canyons and meadows of Southern Oregon. What does it mean to commit to a radical plan for living?

For nearly half a century, the pioneering landscape architect Martha Brookes Hutcheson used her own farm to empower women and to build an ecological design theory through action.

Decades ago Catherine Bauer argued passionately that governments must ensure that all citizens are well housed — a call to action more vital than ever as our shelter crisis deepens.

Hollywood’s onscreen professional worlds are populated largely by white men, and one of the whitest and most masculine of these worlds is architecture.

It’s time to write women architects back into the history of architecture — starting with Wikipedia.

Key moments in the career of the under-appreciated Italian-Brazilian modernist, with a slideshow of significant projects.

The architect-feminists who fought for equality back in the ‘70s are a powerful model for next-wave feminist activism.

A call to translate the widespread awareness of gender inequality into a political campaign with concrete goals — for instance, truly progressive family leave policies.

Are we really ready to be post-feminist? The case for next-wave feminism in architecture — and a better professional culture.

A gallery of exemplary works by women architects from Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, and Peru.

Why can’t architects wear pink? An activist historian explores the feminist politics that inspired the new career of the famous doll.

An architectural historian examines the extraordinary career of a pioneering woman architect, who started her career in the Oak Park studio of Frank Lloyd Wright.

The late 19th-century writings of Mariana Van Rensselaer, one of the pioneers of architecture criticism in America, are still relevant today.