Project Launch Women in Danish Architecture (PDF)
On November 12, 2020 our research project finally went public!
The project launch was broadcasted from our campus in Frederiksberg, Denmark, attended by online guests from all over the world. Our Head of Department Claus Beier and Stine Lea Jacobi from one of funding bodies funding the project opened the event. We also had the pleasure of introducing our international project partners Barbara Penner, Meike Schalk and Despina Stratigakos.
Who are the women in Danish architecture?
Our new research project investigates the contributions of women to Danish architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. We focus on the period from 1925 to 1975, during which the first generations of women entered the design professions in Denmark. We reveal the hitherto untold stories of the diverse roles these women played in architectural practice and the ways in which they contributed to a more comprehensive architectural history. In doing so, we promote an understanding that architectural practice is driven by collaborations involving diverse actors rather than sparked by creative leaders. By suggesting ways to write more just histories of twentieth century Danish architecture, we bring forth silenced, alternative realities as well as forms of practice and collaboration behind the built world as we know it.
With presentations by our international research partners, the contributions to this seminar suggest more inclusive, considerate and compassionate ways of writing, collecting, showcasing and conceptualizing the contributions of women to twentieth century architecture, landscape and urban planning.
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