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March 2025: Celebrating Women’s History Month
Annual Program | SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group Initiatives
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Thank you for your support and engagement!
The 2025 Theme celebrates Women Moving Forward Together! Women Educating & Inspiring Generations.
Program Highlights
1. State of Community
2. SAH WiA AG Celebration of Women’s History Month
3. SAH WiA AG National Outreach and International Collaboration
4. SAH WiA AG Legacy and Registers Committees
5. SAH WiA AG Archive
1. State of Community
We have members, colleagues and acquaintances who lost their house in Southern California fires, or who experienced emotional and physical tragedies with a profound moral and cognitive impact, this is shocking and apocalyptic and we are united in solidarity with all our members and friends.
2. SAH WiA AG Celebration of Women’s History Month 2025
2.1. Objectives
To celebrate Women’s History Month, honor frontrunners and present our programs.
Program Development: Promo assignments: Logo, Program, Leaflet, webpage, letter to group members, post in SAH Opportunities: Anna Sokolina, SAH WiA AG Chair, with review and feedback by members of SAH WiA AG Council: Rebecca Siefert, Ola Uduku, Maristella Casciato, Barbara Ann Opar, Priya Jain, Anat Geva, Yan Wencheng, Bailey Morgan Brown Mitchel, Sarah Bonnemaison, Marianna Charitonidou, Stavroula Michael; meetings lead: Rebecca Siefert; communications: Bailey Morgan Brown Mitchel, Marianna Charitonidou, Priya Jain, Stavroula Michael, Anna Sokolina, Yan Wencheng.
2.2. Commencement of the Annual March Program
Symposium “Re-Studying the Archives: A Historical Review of Women’s Contributions to Architecture”
Date / Time: March 4, 2025, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM (GMT+1)
Location: Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Spain, Higher Technical School of Architecture (ETSA) Architectural Information Center
Streaming provided by UPV. Language: Spanish with auto-translated subtitles
Organizing and Participating Entities: CUG UPV-GVA, SAH Women in Architecture AG, MujerArquitectA, School of Architecture UPV
Reference: Book of Proceedings ICAG 2023
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2.3. Special SAH WiA AG Zoom Event
“We Have Looked for 4,000 Years; Now We Have Seen!” March 27, 2025, 11:00 AM–12:30 PM (CST)
JOIN HERE
We express our gratitude for support to the Society of Architectural Historians for providing the SAH Google Platform for Affiliate Groups, and to Christopher Kirbabas, SAH Director of Programs, for continuous support of our Virtual events.
Description
In her 1970 manifesto Female Revolt, art critic Carla Lonzi underscores a pivotal shift: women, no longer confined to the role of passive observers, break free as active protagonists capable of charting new directions for the present and the future. “We have looked for 4,000 years; now we have seen!”, she announced. We are hosting a session to which researchers, scholars, and practitioners are invited. The aim is to offer a platform to explore how women embraced the transformative shift from passive “looking” to active “seeing” critically interrogating their roles in reshaping architectural narratives. Panelists examine the multifaceted ways in which women—writers, historians, theorists, editors, curators, directors, archivists—have redefined the way we discuss, interpret, and see architecture. Presentations without temporal or geographical restrictions address the following themes: the efforts by women to confront and disrupt canonical and dominant historical narratives; the impact of feminist paradigms on historiography through approaches based on difference, equality, constructionist and intersectional thinking; the redefinition of authorship and authority within architectural histories; the expansion of the architecture canon to include diverse and pluralistic voices. We are particularly interested in understanding how these objectives have been pursued through both public and uncredited roles, disseminated through varied and unconventional outputs (such as exhibitions, anthologies, autobiographical publications, personal journals, etc.). Contributions explore individual or collective initiatives, and the subversive use of sources (oral histories, archives) to revolt against established norms and narratives. Ultimately, we seek examples that demonstrate the possibility of “seeing” as a critical project, able to guide us through the redefinition of what it means “architecture” today.
Participants
Chairs
Silvia Groaz, PhD, EPFL 2021 is professor of History of Architecture at ENSA Paris-Est in France and the University of Liège in Belgium. Her research has been supported by prestigious institutions, including the Swiss National Science Foundation, The Getty Research Institute, the Istituto Svizzero di Milano, and the Italian Ministry of Culture. Formerly curator of the Archizoom architecture gallery at EPFL, she is the author of New Brutalism: The Invention of a Style (EPFL Press, 2023); and is currently editing a book on architecture of Nanda Vigo (Birkhäuser, 2026).
Bianca Felicori is author, curator, and PhD candidate in History of Architecture at UCLouvain, Brussels (FNRS ASP fellowship). She carries out her academic research about the relation between art and architecture (1950-70) studying Superstudio in Italy and Archigram in United Kingdom. She has lectured at Design Academy Eindhoven, MAXXI, MACRO, and MamBO; contributed to Domus, Architectural Design, and Elle Décor; curated exhibitions and cultural programs for Triennale Milano, the Venice Biennale, and Pirelli HangarBicocca. In 2024, she published Forgotten Architecture (Nero Editions) with support of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Beatrice Lampariello, PhD, EPFL 2013 is professor of History of Architecture at the Université catholique de Louvain in Brussels, Belgium. She has curated numerous exhibitions, secured funding from various organizations (including FNRS, FSR, the Italian Council, ARC etc.), and authored several publications, including Aldo Rossi e le forme del razionalismo esaltato (Quodlibet, 2017), Le Monument Continu de Superstudio (co-authored with Roberto Gargiani, B2, 2019), and Unidentified Flying Object for Contemporary Architecture: UFO’s Experiments between Political Activism and Artistic Avant-garde (co-edited with Andrea Anselmo and Boris Hamzeian, Actar, 2022).
Moderator: Rebecca Siefert, PhD SAH WiA AG Associate chair
Introduction: Anna Sokolina, PhD SAH WiA AG Founding chair
Speakes
Anne Massey is Professorial Fellow in the School of Architecture and Design at the University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury. Her publications include Interior Design Since 1900 (Thames & Hudson, 1990, 4th edn, 2020); The Independent Group: Modernism and Mass Culture in Britain, 1945-59 (Manchester University Press, 1996); Out of the Ivory Tower: The Independent Group and Popular Culture (Manchester University Press, 2013); ICA 1946–68 (ICA, 2015); Dorothy Morland: Making ICA History (Liverpool University Press, 2020); Women in Design (Thames & Hudson, 2022) and Writing & Publishing in Architecture & Design (Routledge, 2024). She is currently co-editing Craft-Design: Women’s Empowerment in the Global South (Bloomsbury, 2026) and working on a project about the working-class avant-garde and its intersection with gender.
Léa-Catherine Szacka is associate professor in architectural studies at the University of Manchester and director of the Manchester Architecture Research Group. Since 2024, she has served as Vice President of the European Architectural History Network. Szacka is the author of Exhibiting the Postmodern: The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale (2016) and Biennials/Triennials: Conversations on the Geography of Itinerant Display (2019). She is also co-author of Le Concert: Pink Floyd à Venise (2017) and Paolo Portoghesi: Architecture Between History, Politics and Media (2023), as well as co-editor of Mediated Messages (2018). In 2022, she co-curated the 10th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.
Helen Thomas, Emilie Appercé, Jaehee Shin, Estelle Gagliardi, Women Writing Architecture, a collective, open-access web-based project that curates an ever-growing annotated bibliography of texts written by women about architecture. Launched in June 2021, the project challenges traditional hierarchies and publishing models by fostering a community-driven approach through citing, annotating, and collaborating. The website is currently managed by a team of four editors: architect, writer and publisher Helen Thomas, architect and teacher Emilie Appercé, architect and editor Jaehee Shin, and architect, artist and editor Estelle Gagliardi.
3. SAH WiA AG National Outreach and International Collaboration | Selected Initiatives
3.1. Support and Promotion of Conferences and Events
Roundtable & Exhibition Where Are the Women Architects? Queens Chapter of the American Institute of Architects AIA, Flushing Town Hall 11.24.24. Aims: Shed light on the underrepresentation of women in the field of architecture and explore ways to promote inclusion, equality, and gender diversity in the industry.
Conference Preserving the Recent Past 4, Boston, March 19–22.
3.2. Support and Promotion of Book Publications
Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy. Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism. Princeton University Press, Feb.–Apr. 2025. 272 pages.
Eva M. Álvarez Isidro and Carlos J. Gómez Alfonso, ed. Proceedings Book of the International Conference on Architecture and Gender (ICAG 2023). Editado por Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. Universitat Politècnica de València, School of Architecture, Valencia, Spain, 2025. 1348 pages.
3.3. SAH WiA AG invited contribution
WoArch | Women as Builders, Designers, and Critics of the Built Environment Before 1800
Convenors: Shelley E. Roff, Member of SAH WiA AG Registers Committee, Consuelo Lollobrigida, Francesca Riccardo.
This symposium was organized by the University of Arkansas Rome Center in collaboration with the School of Architecture + Planning at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Hosted in person at the Rome Center in Palazzo Taverna, Rome. Live stream on the Rome Center YouTube channels.
ICAG | VI International Conference on Architecture and Gender
Universitat Politècnica de València, School of Architecture, Valencia, Spain, Proceedings Book of the International Conference on Architecture and Gender (ICAG 2023). Edición Científica Eva M. Álvarez Isidro, Carlos J. Gómez Alfonso. Editado por Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València.
Organizers: Professors Eva M. Alvarez and Carlos J. Gomez, Advising Members of SAH WiA AG Legacy Committee.
4. SAH WiA AG Legacy and Registers Committees
Legacy Committee Legacy Committee – SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (hcommons.org)
Registers Committee Registers Committee – SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (hcommons.org)
Projects in progress: SAH Women in Architecture Bibliography, second edition. First edition HERE.
SAH Women in Architecture Oral Histories. Conversations to feature noted SAH members.
5. SAH WiA AG Archive
Celebrating SAH WiA AG Groundwork Years and Scholarship
SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group first submission of records to International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA), Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech University Libraries. 20 general folders containing 385 files of professional documentation from 12.12.2019 to 05.31.2023 have been accessioned, processing is underway, with sincere gratitude to Jade Snelling, MSIS, Collections Archivist, IAWA.
Our Platforms
Website: SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (hcommons.org)
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Group Forum: Discussion – SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group – SAH Commons
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SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group received gracious support of SAH Board and Staff. We express our gratitude to: Mohammad Gharipour, SAH President, Swati Chattopadhyay, Vice President, Bryan Clark Green, Secretary, Gail Dubrow, Treasurer, Ben Thomas, Executive Director, Anne Hill Bird, Director of Engagement and Outreach, Christopher Kirbabas, Director of Programs, Jamillia Greene, Membership and Governance Coordinator, Olivia Archer, Communications Manager, Ann Gilkerson, Managing Editor, SAH Archipedia, Beth Eifrig, Comptroller.