Archinect - News 2024-11-21T12:47:10-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/81009994/women-in-american-architecture-1977-and-today Women in American Architecture: 1977 and Today Nam Henderson 2013-09-04T10:04:00-04:00 >2013-09-04T01:01:19-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/xv/xvuy65kw4ug8wlm0.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>I think the development of design and planning ideas over the past three decades is where feminism has actually been most effective but least acknowledged...Architecture and planning have been reshaped by these feminist agendas in many areas...but I don&rsquo;t believe academic culture acknowledges explicitly the influence of feminist ideas on the architectural and urban design practices and projects of the past three decades. - Torre</p></em><br /><br /><p> The Architectural League has published some of the content (the introductory essay) of Susan Torres's 1977 exhibition/book Women in American Architecture. They also released an interview with Susana Torre conducted earlier this year, by Rosalie Genevro and Anne Rieselbach.</p> <p> h/t @amlblog <a href="https://twitter.com/amlblog/status/375079335759470594" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></p>