This webinar, sponsored by SAHGB's ‘Women's Architectural Historians’ Network (WAHN) and the SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (SAH WiA AG), brings together panellists from the US and the UK to discuss the circumstances – social, political, cultural, educational – which saw women begin to enter architecture as a professionalized and licensed practice as the twentieth century began.
Taking a comparative view, the webinar considers whether this phenomenon could be attributed to the change in lifestyles and attitudes towards women's work in modernity? A change in the attitude towards women's education? Was it linked to a new social consciousness instigated by consecutive waves of feminist activity? And did women’s presence disrupt the masculine construction of the professional persona of the architect?
Speakers:
Dolores Hayden
Professor Emerita, Yale University
‘Alice Constance Austin’
Johanna Hays
PhD Auburn University
‘Louise Bethune’
Doris Cole
Architect and Independent Scholar
‘Eleanor Raymond’
Luca Csepely-Knorr
Reader in Architecture, Manchester School of Architecture
‘Brenda Colvin and the profession of landscape architecture in the UK’
Diane Watters
Historic Environment Scotland
'Edith Burnet Hughes: Uncovering Women in Architectural History'
Ola Uduku
Research Professor in Architecture, Manchester School of Architecture and Manchester Metropolitan University
‘West African Women Architects – A Colonial Post-Colonial Perspective’
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