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Breaking Ground : architecture by women / Jane Hall.

By: Hall, Jane (Writer on architecture) [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Phaidon, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 223 pages : illustrations (mostly colour) ; 29 x 26 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780714879277Subject(s): 1900-2099 | Women architects | Architecture and women | Architecture, Modern -- 20th century | Architecture, Modern -- 21st century | Architecture and Planning | Architecture and women | Architecture, Modern | Women architects | Architektin | Architektur | Feminismus | Architecture and PlanningDDC classification: 720.82 LOC classification: NA1997 | .H35 2019
Contents:
Would they still call me a diva? -- Breaking ground -- Timeline -- Quotations and further reading.
Summary: "Would you still call me a diva if I were a man?" asked Zaha Hadid, challenging as she did so, more than 100 years of stereotypes about female architects. A century in which women were refused entry to architecture schools, were denied degrees when they had completed courses, a century in which even now, women occupy just ten per cent of the highest-ranking jobs in architecture firms. In contrast, Breaking Ground is a pioneering, even essential, celebration of incredible architecture designed by women. Featuring more than 150 architects and buildings, and spanning the last 100 years, Breaking Ground is both a glorious visual manifesto and a timely record of the extraordinary contribution female architects have made to the profession.
List(s) this item appears in: Women 's History Month 2023
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Would they still call me a diva? -- Breaking ground -- Timeline -- Quotations and further reading.

"Would you still call me a diva if I were a man?" asked Zaha Hadid, challenging as she did so, more than 100 years of stereotypes about female architects. A century in which women were refused entry to architecture schools, were denied degrees when they had completed courses, a century in which even now, women occupy just ten per cent of the highest-ranking jobs in architecture firms. In contrast, Breaking Ground is a pioneering, even essential, celebration of incredible architecture designed by women. Featuring more than 150 architects and buildings, and spanning the last 100 years, Breaking Ground is both a glorious visual manifesto and a timely record of the extraordinary contribution female architects have made to the profession.

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