Representation

Women, gongs and architecture
Ruth McGowan May 14th, 2018
Depressingly few women architects have been recognised with an Australian Honour since they were established in 1975. Ruth McGowan shows us how to correct the imbalance.

Dear Artforum: Six men memorialise Zaha Hadid
August 4th, 2016
Reading Artforum's latest issue, Karen Burns falls through a gap in time – between a sophisticated account of identity and the antiquated myths of architecture.

The Parlour effect
Gill Matthewson December 3rd, 2015
And now for the good news – the number of women registering in Australia has skyrocketed!

The advantages of being a woman architect?
Justine Clark October 23rd, 2014
Let's make an architectural counterpart to the Guerrilla Girls' great poster.

Disciplining Identities: Part 1
Lori Brown August 24th, 2014
How can we challenge the ways that architecture represents and perpetuate certain gendered identities? In Part 1 of her essay Lori Brown explores architecture own disciplining methods within the broader social and political contexts.

Feminism and architecture part 1: Feminist contributions
Susana Torre August 21st, 2014
Feminism has had a powerful, longstanding influence on the development of architecture and urban design, although this is rarely acknowledged. Part 1 of Susana Torre’s lecture, Feminism and Architecture, explores the legacy.

Feminism and architecture part 3: Where to next?
Susana Torre August 21st, 2014
What are the new agendas for feminism and architecture? In part 3 of her lecture Susana Torre outlines what we might do next.

The Elephant in our Parlour: everyday sexism in architecture
Karen Burns August 20th, 2014
It is time to start talking about everyday sexism in architecture – the elephant in the Parlour. Karen Burns leads the way.

Successes, strategies and struggles
Wendy Bertrand May 17th, 2013
Wendy Bertrand reflects on forty years of the Organization of Women Architects and Design Professionals.

Who wants to be a Woman Architect?
Karen Burns May 1st, 2012
We all want to be valued for the quality of our work, not framed by the fact of our gender. Karen Burns reflects on the complex interactions between culture and individual agency.

A girl’s own adventure
Karen Burns April 28th, 2012
How do anthologies of architectural theory represent feminism and gender theory? Karen Burns finds a "strangely antiquated", essentialist version at odds with the aims of the work itself.

Architect Barbie & Vitruvius
Gill Matthewson March 6th, 2012
Ideal proportions. Gill Matthewson discusses Architect Barbie in her paper for Fabulation. We present some out takes.