How to Design a Fair Shared City?
WPS PragueIn cooperation with the offices of Heinrich-Böll Foundation Prague we have published our first book How to Design a Fair Shared City?This comic reflects our study trip to Vienna and offers eight simple...
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ARCVISION PRIZE Catalogue – Women and Architecture 2016 Edition
“arcVision Prize – Women and Architecture Now in its fourth edition, the arcVision Prize confirms its unique position in the global landscape. lts major achievement for ltalcementi, but above all it’s a symbol of a...
Margherita Guccione: MAXXI Museum shows its archive
International investigation serialized in the world of architectural archives, related to digital issues and enhancement. We start from the MAXXI, with an interview with the director on the occasion of the catalog of the...
Why Equal Representation for Women in Architecture is Better for Everyone
In the ongoing debate about women in the architecture profession, you rarely hear an argument for why equal representation is important; it’s generally assumed to be an unquestionable moral imperative. However, in this article...
Women in Architecture’s 2016 Survey Finds Widened Gender Disparities
The Architectural Review has released the results of the fifth annual Women in Architecture survey, providing insights into the experiences of over 1,000 women worldwide.One out of five women responding to the survey said...
Invisible Architects: The First Generation of Women in Slovak Architecture
Architektúra & urbanizmusVol. 49, (No. 1-2, 2015), pp. 82-103 IRINA KEDROVÁ and MÁRIA KRUKOVSKÁ in the Bratislava state design office Stavoprojekt, c. 1960 The study devotes attention to the activities of the women architects who...
Gesture and Design: Charlotte Perriand writes about Japan
Gesture and design: Charlotte Perriand writes about JapanCaterina Franchini AIS/Design. Storia e ricerche n. 6, dedicated to the theme “Designers and writing in the twentieth century” is now online”The articles gathered in...
Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard (1903-74): Her Development as a Landscape Architect between Tradition and Modernism
Garden History Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring, 2002), pp. 49-73 The discussed examples of Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard’s (1903-74) work give an overview of her development as a self-taught landscape designer in Italy and...
The Good Women of Peterhouse: Patriarchal Community, Femininity and University Reform
I argue that the beautiful, passive, idealized women the panels represent constitute a discursive response to the social and cultural anxieties raised by the emerging figure of the girl-under-graduate, who was widely understood to...