Women in Architecture

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The publication Women in Architecture documents the great achievements of women in architecture and their ever-increasing share in today's building activity. »Architecture is no more a men's world. This idea that women cannot think three-dimensionally is ridiculous.« So Zaha Hadid in 2013. Her death three years later came much too soon, but she will remain one of the most important exponents of the architecture of our time. The publication is based on the lecture series »Architecture Today« at Tübingen University and the female architects who could speak there. Since 1987, this lecture series has offered architects from all over the world a forum to present their work and to explain their theoretical ideas about architecture. In the two winter semesters 2016/17 and 2017/18 only women were invited. Together with the female architects who have spoken in Tübingen in recent years and who are also represented in this book, they provide a very good overview of the special contribution that women make to today's architecture. The question as to whether their contribution differs in content and form from that of their male colleagues, or whether it is inferior in quality, can clearly be answered in the negative. In view of the achievements shown here, however, another question arises: Why did it take so long for women to be able to take up this profession, in which not few of them are now achieving much greater success than their male collegues? The selection of female architects in this publication is due to the lecture series. There is no claim to completeness. The presentation of these architects working today, who are each represented by a project of their choice, is complemented by a retrospective of the work of some extraordinary and pioneering women in architecture - with contributions by Dirk Boll on Emilie Winkelmann, Beatriz Colomina on Eileen Gray, Sol Camacho on Lina Bo Bardi and Patrik Schumacher on Zaha Hadid. Ursula Schwitalla studied different subjects including art history and works as an exhibition curator and art consultant. As chair of the Tübinger Kunsthistorische Gesellschaft and lecturer at Tübingen University's art-history institute she is responsible for the »Architecture Today« lecture series.