Book Talk: The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2020

About the Book:
Present-day demands for gender equity have prompted a new urgency about the history of women in architecture’s past and present. The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2020 is the first comprehensive survey of women’s work in architecture. This collection of 1160 entries, establishes a new global history to decenter the dominance of the Global West in narratives of women and architecture. Using biographies, thematic entries and scholarly introductions, the Encyclopedia explores women’s buildings, ideas, and action, and sets women’s production and agency in local, global, and transnational contexts. Over 360 advisors and 360 academics, writers and architects have contributed to this survey whose geographic scope spans from Africa (ed., Hannah Le Roux), Asia (ed. Anuradha Chatterjee), the Caribbean, Central America and South America (ed. Ines Moisset), Europe - Eastern (ed. Jelena Bogdanovic) and Western (editor Ines Novella assisted by Patricia Santos Pedrosa), the Former USSR/Post-Soviet States (ed. Alla Vronskaya and Tijana Vujosevic), the Middle East (ed. Samia Rab Kirchner), Oceania, (ed. Alex Brown and Heather Mitcheltree), the United Kingdom (ed. Emma Cheatle) and the United States / Canada (ed. Andrea J. Merrett). This geographic breadth uncovers the connected and asynchronous histories of women in architecture and the forces of modernization, empire, Cold War, decolonization, and capital that irrevocably wove them together.

Speakers:
Lori A. Brown, FAIA, Distinguished Professor, Syracuse University
Mary McLeod, Professor of Architecture, GSAPP Columbia University
Andrea J. Merrett, Independent Scholar, Area Editor for United States / Canada
Cathleen McGuigan, Critic; Former Editor-in-Chief, Architectural Record
Alexandra Quantrill, Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute
‍Olga Touloumi, Professor of Architectural History, Bard
Roberta Washington, FAIA, NOMA, Architect, Roberta Washington Architects