Selected Key Topics
Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2020 provides students, scholars, and professional architects with an authoritative reference to women architects and their work, and gender issues and women’s rights in architecture.
If you're unsure where to begin, the quick links below offer a curated starting point – featuring introductory essays, selected notable designers, and other key topics.
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Introduction
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Introduction: Women in Architecture in Africa
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Introduction: Latin America and the Caribbean
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Introduction: Canada and USA
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Introduction: Asia
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Introduction: Women Architects in Eastern Europe
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Introduction: Middle Eastern Women in Architecture
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Introduction: Women in Architecture in Oceania
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Introduction: Second Sex in the Second World: Women-Architects in the (Former) Soviet Union
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Introduction: UK
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Introduction: Women Architects in Western Europe
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Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992)
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Cheong Koon Hean (b.1957)
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Đặng Việt Nga (c.1940)
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Odile Decq (b.1955)
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Elizabeth Diller (b.1954)
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Jane Drew (1911–1996)
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Tammy Eagle Bull (b. 1965)
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Go-Sam, Carroll (1963–)
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Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak (1920–2018)
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Zaha Hadid (b.1950–2016, Baghdad, Iraq)
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Hsiu Tse-Lan (1925–2016)
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Eugenie Dorothy Hughes (1910–1987)
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Ellen Jawdat (1921–2020; Ellen Coan, also known as Ellen Bovie, Srinagar, Kashmir)
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Emesé Ijjasz de Murcia (b.1936)
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Anupama Kundoo (b.1967)
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Mabel Lapacó (1930–2016)
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Erica Mann (neé Schoenbaum) (1917–2007)
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Farshid Moussavi (b.1965, Shiraz, Iran)
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Carmen Portinho (1903–2001)
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Hema Sankalia (1934–2015)
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Denise Scott Brown (b. Denise Lakofski, 1931)
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Kazuyo Sejima (b.1956)
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Minnette De Silva (1918–1998)
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Alison Smithson (b.1928–1992, Sheffield, England)
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Betty Spence (1919–1984)
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Wang Chiu-Hwa (王秋华) (1925–2021)
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Georgie Wolton (1934–2021)
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ANZA Magazine (2011–)
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Eliana Cárdenas (1951–2010)
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Françóise Choay (1925–2024)
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Beatriz Colomina (b.1952)
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Conferences, Exhibitions, and Media: 1972–1988
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Feminist Manifestos, 1976–2013
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Ada Louise Huxtable (1921–2013)
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Jane Jacobs (1916–2004)
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María Teresa Muñoz Jiménez (b.1947)
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Evelia Peralta (b.1941)
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Monica Pidgeon (b.1913–2009, Chile)
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Jane Rendell (b.1967, Dubai, UAE)
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Betty Spence (1919–1984)
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Texts, Films, and Exhibitions (1970 onward)
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Ruth Verde Zein (b.1955-)
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Marina Waisman, née Kitroser (b. 1920 -d.1997)
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Women, Australian Architecture, and Media
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Collective Practices: Queer and Feminist Pioneers in Sweden
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Feminist Manifestos and Reports
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Feminist Manifestos, 1976–2013
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Feminist Organizations and Spatial Practices: The Mining Town of Malmberget (1900–)
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Grupo Nueva Arquitectura (established 1979–)
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Influence of Black Lives Matter and Architecture
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Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative (1980–1996) [Sometimes Given as 1994]
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Pioneers: Women’s Movements in Swedish Architecture
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Somali Women and the Aqal
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Tanzanian Women Architects for Humanity (2010–)
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Women Architects Associations in Italy
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Women Architects in the Non-Official Groups in the 1960s and the 1970s
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Women’s Architecture Organizations in Canada, 1982–2015
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Women’s Design Service (1984 onward)
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Women’s Organization in the United States, 1960–2015
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Second Wave-Feminism: Re-making Swedish Collective Housing: From Service to Collaboration (1975–)
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Educators, Theorists, Historians
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Feminism in the Architectural Field in France
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Feminisms of Theory
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Feminist Pedagogy in Architectural Education, 1975–1996
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Feminist Planners, Toronto
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Feminist Practices
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Feminist Scholarship in the 1990s
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Feminist Scholarship, 1974–1990
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Fourth-wave Feminism in African Architecture
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Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture (2005)
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Pioneers: Women and Feminist Approaches in Austria
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The Emergence of Women’s and Gender Planning since the 1960/1970s
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Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History
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Women Historians of Modern Architecture: Moscow, 1960–2020
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