How do we situate women in history? While successive waves of feminism have granted women access to voting, education, and control over their own finances and their bodies (to varying degrees, as of late) from the late nineteenth century onward, women’s contributions have historically been less likely than men’s to be documented, more likely to be misattributed to male peers, or simply buried unremarked. The Women Who Changed Architecture asks: How do we situate women in architectural history?
The book offers its answer in a collective biography that seeks to identify women who changed architecture from 1881 through 2021. Editor Jan Cigliano Hartman describes the volume, copublished by Princeton Architectural Press and the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, as a “comprehensive and encyclopedic record of pioneering women in architecture” (9). Brief biographies of 122 women architects are clustered chronologically by generation, with each section introduced by an overview identifying the forces...
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