2024-12-21T23:11:42-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150253867/writing-women-into-history-a-curated-reading-list-tackles-the-imbalance-of-female-voices-within-architecture Katherine Guimapang 2021-03-08T18:00:00-05:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ed/edc4145cf971d467d89eaff62aa0c97e.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>With information available at our fingertips, discovering resources like a list of female architects, for example, should be a breeze. However, like most professions, these texts and resources were often written and curated by male writers. In 2021, female writers and curators continue to reclaim their place within academia, architectural history, and professional practice by writing themselves into the canon they have been excluded from.</p> <p>If you look up "female architecture writers" on Google,&nbsp;the first search result is&nbsp;a blog&nbsp;created by architect, writer, researcher, and academic Dr. Harriet Harriss titled "<em></em><a href="https://womenwritearchitecture.wordpress.com/2017/09/15/first-blog-post/" target="_blank"><em>Women Who Write Architecture</em>.</a>"</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d3/d31723a7b8d302a7ab5a2ad81f2f2af6.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d3/d31723a7b8d302a7ab5a2ad81f2f2af6.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Featured on Archinect: <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150042066/new-website-champions-the-remarkable-contributions-made-by-50-pioneering-women-in-architecture" target="_blank">New website champions the remarkable contributions made by 50 pioneering women in architecture</a>. Alice Constance Austin, one of the women featured on the site, showing model of house to Llano del Rio colonists, May 1, 1917. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library</figcaption></figure><p>In 2019 I&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150142013/deans-list-pratt-s-dr-harriet-harriss-on-academia-s-role-in-preparing-architects-of-the-future" target="_blank">interviewed Dr....</a></p>