THERE’S MORE, MUCH MORE TO READ, SEE AND HEAR
Websites, articles, films and books dedicated to the work of women in architecture. A live list - we welcome suggestions for inclusion. Enjoy!
BOOKS
THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE
Edited By Anna Sokolina
Published 29.1.2024
This book 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.
WOMEN IN ARCHITECUTE
by Ursula Schwitalla, Dirk Boll
Published 2021
The voices of thirty-six internationally active women architects are heard through their own projects. This diverse panorama is supplemented by essays on pioneering female architects, and analyses that get to the bottom of the structural discrimination against women architects.
Link to Review by Ellie Stathaki on Wallpaper
CHASING THE SKY: 20 STORIES OF WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE
Edited Dean Dewhist
Published December 2017
A book “presenting the concentrated voice of some of Australia’s most dynamic practitioners”.
FILM
15.3.2024 ArchDaily
A Voice for the 450 Plus: Black Females in Architecture
CITY DREAMERS
A documentary by filmmaker Joseph Hillel that underlines the ever-changing city of tomorrow and the life and work of 4 women architects who reconsidered the urban environment. Phyllis Lambert, Denise Scott Brown, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander and Blanche Lemco van Ginkel are inspiring pioneers that observed and shaped the city of today and tomorrow.
WEBSITES
PODCASTS
"I’VE NEVER MET A WOMAN ARCHITECT BEFORE..."
La Mesa, California, US
The trials and tribulations of being a woman, a lover, a friend, a mother and last but not least, an architect...Join Michele Grace Hottel, owner of her namesake architecture and design firm, as she takes you on an exploration into the lives of today's Architects: their first recollections of experiencing architecture, their inspiration, their favorite buildings and what they would like to say about the future of the profession.
ONLINE ARTICLES
9.11.2024 ArchDaily
Generations of Change: Women Who Redefined Landscape Architecture
ArchDaily
5 Women Leading Renowned Architectural Firms in Catalonia
(Published January, 2023)
Architecture Now
Review: Making Space: A history of New Zealand Women in Architecture | Architecture Now
(Published December 9, 2022)
ArchDaily
Equal Saree: Architecture and Urbanism With a Feminist Perspective in Barcelona
(Published December 7, 2022)
ArchDaily
Pioneering Women Architects: From Latin America to Spain (Published October 18, 2022)
RIBA; Architecture.com
RIBA Collections research guide: Women in architecture
Accessed November 13, 2022
ArchDaily
Women in Architecture: Gabriela Carrillo | ArchDaily
Published October 24, 2022
18.9.2022
Architecture & Design
Bayswater 2 Womens Housing - ClarkeHopkinsClarke
Dezeen
Women-led studios create sculptural pavilions for Women in Architecture exhibition
July 6, 2022
ArchDaily
8 Women-Led Practices in Architecture That Reflect on the Profession in Mexico
Published March 31, 2022
Dezeen
Part W creating map "to draw attention to built projects by women" in London
Published March 8, 2022
2021 Architizer
10 Female-Led Firms at the Forefront of Architecture
ArchDaily
"Warchée" Demolishes Gender Inequality in the Construction Field Published June 13, 2020
ArchDaily
The 10 Most Overlooked Women in Architecture History
Published December 4, 2019
Places Journal
Girl Talk: Marion Mahony Griffin, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Oak Park Studio
Published June, 2011