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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. With Mona Bayr, Odile Decq, Elke Delugan-Meissl, Julie Eizenberg, Manuelle Gautrand, Annette Gigon, Silvia Gmür, Cristina Guedes, Melkan Gürsel, Itsuko Hasegawa, Anna Heringer, Fabienne Hoelzel, Helle Juul, Karla Kowalski, Anupama Kundoo, Anne Lacaton, Regine Leibinger, Dorte Mandrup, Rozana Montiel, Kathrin Moore, Farshid Moussavi, Carme Pinós, Nili Portugali, Paula Santos, Kazuyo Sejima, Annabelle Selldorf, Pavitra Sriprakash, Siv Helene Stangeland, Brigitte Sunder-Plassmann, Lene Tranberg, Billie Tsien, Elisa Valero, Natalie de Vries, Andrea Wandel, Helena Weber, and Lu Wenyu.

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Pays tribute to the undoubtable rich variety, powerful achievements and enormous potential the women in architecture have to offer.--Ellie Stathaki Wallpaper*

Discusses great achievements of women architects both now and throughout history. 'After centuries of exclusivity with only male architects, never women, the boom in the women's movement at the end of the 19th century [allowed women] to gain admission to the profession. They had to fight for it, and they did.'--Jennifer Billock Smithsonian This book represents a vital intervention in ongoing debates around what true gender equality might look like across the creative sector. More than that, it's a document of 36 hugely significant architectural practices, responsible for some of the most dazzling features of our contemporary built environment.--Greg Thomas Aesthetica Pays tribute to the undoubtable rich variety, powerful achievements and enormous potential the women in architecture have to offer.--Ellie Stathaki Wallpaper*

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URSULA SCHWITALLA studied art history and works as an exhibition curator and art consultant. As chairwoman of the Tübinger Kunstgeschichtliche Gesellschaft e.V., lecturer and associate member of the BDA, she has been responsible for the lecture series ""Architecture Today"" at the University of Tübingen for twenty years.

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