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“Made by Women: Celebrating Women in Socialist Architecture and Design” discussion panel took place at the Museum of Decorative Arts (Kunstgewerbemuseum) in Berlin on July 13, 2023 in connection to exhibition Retrotopia: Design for Socialist Spaces.
14.07.2023
The 18th edition of Belgrade International Architecture Week (BINA) took place in multiple locations from May 11 to June 18 and included six exhibitions and related events. The prelude to BINA was a panel discussion “Women in Architecture: BINA pre BINE” and an encounter of Women’s Architectural Society ŽAD from Serbia and the Women’s Committee of the Austrian Chamber of Architects and Chartered Engineering Consultants (Kammer der ZiviltechnikerInnen Oberösterreich und Salzburg) held on May 6.
05.07.2023
Call for papers for the VI International Conference on Architecture and Gender, to be held on October 3-6, 2023 at the School of Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) is now open. The dealine for submitting the abstracts is April 11th 2023.
16.03.2023
https://icagvlc.webs.upv.es/call-for-papers/?s=03
Call for papers for the VI International Conference on Architecture and Gender, to be held on October 3-6, 2023 at the School of Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) is now open. The dealine for submitting the abstracts is April 11th 2023.
16.03.2023
https://icagvlc.webs.upv.es/call-for-papers/?s=03
“Feminist Spatial Practices, Part 1” is a map and accompanying essay by Bryony Roberts and Abriannah Aiken, published by e-flux in March 2023. The map is provides a comprehensive overview of feminist and intersectional practices and initiatives after 1970.
06.03.2023
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/chronograms/506357/feminist-spatial-practices-part-1/
The seventh Womxn in Design and Architecture (WDA) Conference at Princeton School of Architecture, to take place on March 2 & 3, 2023, will be devoted to the life and work of Montenegro architect Svetlana Kana Radević (1937-2000).
07.01.2023
National Palace “Ukraine” (Kyiv, 1965-1970; architects Yevhenia Marynchenko, Petro Zhylytski, Illya Vayner; interior design by Irma Karakis), one of the prime monuments of Ukrainian modernism (bringing Marynchenko the title distinguished architect of Ukraine in 1970 and the Taras Shevchenko Prize in 1971) was damaged by Russian shelling on December 31, 2022. The palace is currently accepting donations to support its reconstruction: https://palace-ukraine.com/en/vidbuduiemo-ukrainu-razom
06.01.2023
The English translation of the novel Siblings (Die Geschwister, 1963) by East-German author Brigitte Reimann is due to be published by Penguin in its Modern Classics series. Reimann’s seminal novel Franziska Linkerhand, whose main figure is a female architect, “should be next.”
05.01.2023
“Hungarian Women Architects, a research project launched this year by the HMA MPDC, was introduced at a public event held at the Rózsi Walter Villa on 13 October 2022. The final result of the two-year project will debut as a comprehensive exhibition on the topic at the villa at the end of 2024.”
A new collection of articles, Women Architects and Politics: Intersections between Gender, Power Structures and Architecture in the Long 20th Century, edited by Mary Pepchinski and Christina Budde, is published by [transcript] and is in open access.
https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-5630-5/women-architects-and-politics/ (table of contents; last accessed on 05.01.2023)
https://www.transcript-publishing.com/media/pdf/32/3f/84/oa9783839456309LGLDLSNRdG8FZ.pdf (full text, last accessed on 05.01.2023)
ARCH+ 246 Zeitgenössische feministische Raumpraxis (Februar 2022), S. 4–17, hier S. 4.
Edited by Torsten Lange, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Daniela Ortiz dos Santos, Gabrielle Schaad. Please click on the following link for more information:
https://archplus.net/de/archiv/ausgabe/246/ (last accessed on 10.02.2022)
Modern Woman – Architect. Projection and Reality in Central Europe after 1900 / Moderní žena – architektka
Helena Huber-Doudová (ed.). With the texts of authors Mary Pepchinski, Franziska Bollerey, Martina Pachmanová, Mariann Simon, and others. Please click on the following link for more information:
Hello world! We are excited to announce the launch of our website with this first message. This website was created within the project “Second World, Second Sex: Women and Architecture under Socialism,” funded by the Hesse Ministry of Science and the Arts. We hope that it will become a platform for sharing information about the role of women in shaping and using the built environment in socialist countries. In the coming weeks and months, we intend to use this website for bringing to light neglected legacies of women-architects, -construction engineers, -landscape architects, -interior designers, -book illustrators, -theather stage set designers, -educators, and more. In addition to biographies, we will publish essays, images, videos, and scans, as well as links to related materials and announcements about related events. We cordially invite everyone to contribute by sharing your materials, announcements, or authoring entries. Interested? Please contact us at info@womenbuildingsocialism.org or by using the form on our contact page below.
