Breaking ground : architecture by women / Jane Hall.

By:

Hall, Jane (Writer on architecture) [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London ; New York : Phaidon, 2019Edition: First publishedDescription: 223 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 29 x 26 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0714879274
9780714879277

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

720.82 HAL 23

LOC classification:

NA1997 .H35 2019

Contents:

Would they still call me a diva? -- Breaking ground -- Timeline -- Quotations and further reading.

Summary: "Would you still call me a diva if I were a man?" asked Zaha Hadid, challenging as she did so, more than 100 years of stereotypes about female architects. A century in which women were refused entry to architecture schools, were denied degrees when they had completed courses, a century in which even now, women occupy just ten per cent of the highest-ranking jobs in architecture firms. In contrast, Breaking Ground is a pioneering, even essential, celebration of incredible architecture designed by women. Featuring more than 150 architects and buildings, and spanning the last 100 years, Breaking Ground is both a glorious visual manifesto and a timely record of the extraordinary contribution female architects have made to the profession.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	720.82 HAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100711937

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A ground-breaking visual survey of architecture designed by women from the early twentieth century to the present day

'Would they still call me a diva if I were a man?' asked Zaha Hadid, challenging as she did so more than a century of stereotypes about female architects. In the same spirited approach, Breaking Groundis a pioneering visual manifesto of more than 200 incredible buildings designed by women all over the world. Featuring twentieth-century icons such as Julia Morgan, Eileen Gray and Lina Bo Bardi, and the best contemporary talent, from Kazuyo Sejima to Elizabeth Diller and Grafton Architects, this book is, above all else, a ground-breaking celebration of extraordinary architecture.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Would they still call me a diva? -- Breaking ground -- Timeline -- Quotations and further reading.

"Would you still call me a diva if I were a man?" asked Zaha Hadid, challenging as she did so, more than 100 years of stereotypes about female architects. A century in which women were refused entry to architecture schools, were denied degrees when they had completed courses, a century in which even now, women occupy just ten per cent of the highest-ranking jobs in architecture firms. In contrast, Breaking Ground is a pioneering, even essential, celebration of incredible architecture designed by women. Featuring more than 150 architects and buildings, and spanning the last 100 years, Breaking Ground is both a glorious visual manifesto and a timely record of the extraordinary contribution female architects have made to the profession.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jane Hallis the inaugural recipient of the British Council Lina Bo Bardi Fellowship (2013) and a founding member of Assemble, the London-based, Turner Prize-winning collective.