Women have come a long way in the arts, but
there’s still a long way to go. It’s not so unusual to find the work of
contemporary women artists in galleries and art historians continue to comb
through the past in search of overlooked women visionaries. In the world of
architecture, however, the fight for gender equality rages on, but a blast from
the past recently put that inequity front and center again. Recently, Denise Scott Brown argued
to Architecture Magazine that she
should have received equal credit with her business partner and husband Robert Venturi on the
1991 Pritzker Prize,
the highest honor for a working architect.
“They owe me not a Pritzker Prize,” Brown contended, “but a Pritzker
inclusion ceremony.” A petition on Change.org now asks architects and fans of
architecture to stand with Brown and compel the Pritzker people to right this
wrong. But, as Brown as others demonstrate, the idea of “women architects” as
different from the idea of architects with a male default setting continues to
cripple women looking to break through (ironically) this particular glass
ceiling. Please come over to Picture This at Big Think to read more of "Is the Architecture World Sexist?"
[Many thanks to Rizzoli USA
for the image above from and a review copy of Zaha
Hadid: Pierres Vives, written by Zaha Hadid Architects, edited by
Stephane Hof, and photographed by Helene Binet.]
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Is the Architecture World Sexist?
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Or is the world F/LOSS (Free and Libre Open Source Software) and interoperability sexist ? Check out Grasshopper, IFC and RhinoPython on www.rhino4you.com - interoperability rulezz !!!
Good to know : as of now, you can import an IFC file into VisualARQ - http://www.rhino4you.com/1/flash_info_405960.html
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