As we have been going through a global pandemic with deep-seated inequalities in architecture, inclusion in the field has become more urgent than ever before; in particular, for women architects from underrepresented groups such as minorities or immigrants. With deep concern about this situation’s historical roots, this online panel aims to motivate relevant institutions, programs, and people to take concrete actions toward historical documentation practice, methods, and policies that will be more inclusive of diverse women architects, rather than spotlighting the accomplishments of prominent individuals.
This conversation informed by the deep expertise of our panelists and enlivened by dialogue across generations and disciplines. The panel brings together two pioneering architecture historians with three archivists doing critical work in documenting the works and lives of women in architecture. Their aim is to open a fresh dialogue between architectural history and the field of the archive for the sake of building a collective and inclusive memory as well as for a future architecture world that empowers a sense of belonging and connections among current and future generations of diverse women architects, and their recognition by society.
With your help, this dialogue will continue even more broadly and deeply online after the event.