2024-11-14T02:54:04-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149983658/blair-kamin-s-standout-chicago-architects-of-2016-are-all-female-but-that-s-incidental Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-12-22T12:36:00-05:00 >2016-12-23T21:34:46-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ib/ibgfcc950mznan9n.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Jeanne Gang completed three exceptional projects, including the dramatic Writers Theatre in Glencoe, and saw construction begin on her 98-story Vista Tower [...] Carol Ross Barney finished the latest extension of Chicago's downtown Riverwalk [...] Juanita Irizarry, executive director of Friends of the Parks, led the successful fight against George Lucas' planned narrative art museum [...] What unites these achievements? Probably the fact that gender, in the end, had little to do with them.</p></em><br /><br /><p>More on gender in architecture:</p><p><a title="Struggles persist for women in the architectural workforce" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149968815/struggles-persist-for-women-in-the-architectural-workforce" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Struggles persist for women in the architectural workforce</a></p><p><a title="UT Austin's architecture school begins new initiative focused on &quot;race, gender, and the American built environment&quot;" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149967743/ut-austin-s-architecture-school-begins-new-initiative-focused-on-race-gender-and-the-american-built-environment" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UT Austin's architecture school begins new initiative focused on "race, gender, and the American built environment"</a></p><p><a title="North Carolina loses AIA conference due to anti-LGBT HB2 bill passage" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149943704/north-carolina-loses-aia-conference-due-to-anti-lgbt-hb2-bill-passage" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">North Carolina loses AIA conference due to anti-LGBT HB2 bill passage</a></p><p><a title="Why Zaha Hadid's gender and ethnicity mattered so much" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149938434/why-zaha-hadid-s-gender-and-ethnicity-mattered-so-much" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Why Zaha Hadid's gender and ethnicity mattered so much</a></p>