Women Architects Helped Pave the Way

Female architects have made a profound impact on architecture as we know it today. What influences - and inspiration - can you find in the work we’ve collected here?

https://www.arch2o.com/5-female-architects-who-shaped-the-history-of-architecture/

https://www.som.com/news/new_website_celebrates_pioneering_women_of_american_architecture

Sheila Sri Prakash, Indian architect

https://sugermint.com/sheila-sri-prakash-indian-architect-founder-of-shilpa-architects/

Lina Bo Bardi -Expressive Architect of 20th Century Brazil.

https://www.archdaily.com/575429/spotlight-lina-bo-bardi

Marion Mahony Griffin, Entwined with Frank Lloyd Wright

https://www.pbs.org/wbgriffin/marion.htm

https://archive.curbed.com/2017/6/8/15755858/marion-mahony-walter-burley-griffin-wright-drawings

Norma Merrick Sklarek, ‘the Rosa Parks of Architecture’

https://www.the-modernist.org/news/2020/6/16/norma-merrick-sklarek-the-rosa-parks-of-architecture

https://pioneeringwomen.bwaf.org/norma-merrick-sklarek/

Anglo-Irish Modernist Eileen Gray

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/eileen-gray-architect-designer

 

Kazuyo Sejima

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuyo_Sejima


Chilean Architect Sophia Hayden and the Hidden Cost of American Sexism

http://architectuul.com/architect/sophia-hayden-bennett

 https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/03/considering-history-sophia-hayden-and-the-hidden-cost-of-american-sexism/


Maya Lin: Becoming an American (Architect)

https://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/ap_pjourneys_bio5.html

https://stormking.org/artist/maya-lin/

How did one of Egypt’s leading architects end up walking the red carpet at Cannes?

https://www.kinfolk.com/at-work-with-shahira-fahmy/

Parisian Charlotte Perriand

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/07/charlotte-perriand-le-corbusier-design

Interview With Denise Scott Brown

https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/architect-interview-with-denise-scott-brown_o

Grand Challenge: Valuing World Cultures

ERC Grand Challenges: For project design, for inquiry, for activism

Italy, Milano. first Design Summit, conferenza a palazzo Mezzanotte. Sheila Sri Prakash, Chief Architect and Founder of Shilpa Architects. Credits: Alessandro Grassani/LUZphoto CC by SA-2.0

Italy, Milano. first Design Summit, conferenza a palazzo Mezzanotte. Sheila Sri Prakash, Chief Architect and Founder of Shilpa Architects. Credits: Alessandro Grassani/LUZphoto CC by SA-2.0