All hail the groundbreaking women in architecture
All hail the groundbreaking women in architecture
International Women’s Day is upon us and publisher Hatje Cantz prepares to launch a new book –
Women in Architecture – celebrating just that: the amazing female architects of past, present and future
Escola Massana, Art and Design Center by Estudio Carme Pinós.
Photography: Duccio Malagamba
German publisher Hatje Cantz’s latest book follows up on the much-needed current debate about the role of women in architecture. Coming at a critical time, with reports of women being especially hard hit by the pandemic making headlines, and just in time for the 2021 International Women’s Day,
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It is difficult to start any retrospective text on 2020 without sounding too cliché. While facing an invisible enemy that changed everyone’s lives, this past year has taught us that humanity is more fragile than we ever imagined. At Archdaily, it’s our job to synthesize how the buildings and the world we live in will be impacted by COVID-19 not only in the short term but in the distant future as well. Has our perception of the built environment changed this year? And has our relationship with the tectonics of buildings changed with all of the obstacles we’ve faced along the way?