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It has been a busy time for the book Untold Stories: About Women, Gender and Architecture in Denmark, which traveled all over Denmark and even crossed the Atlantic.[SR1]  With copies of the...

On 19 June, 2023, together with the publisher, we hosted a wonderful book launch in Copenhagen of our book Untold Stories. Women, Gender, and Architecture in Denmark. The book is co-written by...

In January 2023, Women in Danish Architecture received the award as best IGN communicator. We summarize some of our biggest communication tasks in 2022.

In November 2022 Svava Riesto og Henriette Steiner organized the third international PhD Course about gender and architecture

A summary of activities related to the exhibition ‘Women in Architecture’ at the Danish Architecture Center (DAC) in 2022.

Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner invites everyone to join international PhD course in autumn 2022.

’De glemte arkitekter’ (The Forgotten Architects) is a new podcast series in 6 episodes that is based on our research project. In this first episode, we talk about the need for a new Danish architecture history.

On May 12, 2022 the exhibition Women in Architecture that sheds light on the role of women in architecture opens at the Danish Architecture Center. Our project group has collaborated on creating parts of the exhibition.

Since 2020, Liv Løvetand Rahbek has photographed countless places in Greater Copenhagen as part of her work with the project. Her photos have now become a guidebook on architecture created by women.

We have created a podcast in Danish! The 6 episode podcast is supported by Realdania.

In a treasure trove in Frederiksberg, archivist Tina Lund maintains a unique collection: 100 years of landscape architecture photographs, drawings, newspaper clippings, and plans.

As something new in the research project, we have expanded our project meetings with a PhD student and students from the bachelor’s and master’s program in Landscape Architecture at the University of Copenhagen.

For the second year in a row, we have organized an international PhD-course about architecture, landscape and gender at the University of Copenhagen.

Henriette Steiner and Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen went on a field expedition to Skodsborg in Greater Copenhagen to visit the remarkable shared private home of the former architect couple.

Danish plant names can be surprisingly gender specific. Our project employee Frida has investigated the topic. Her article ‘Gendered Plant Names’ was released in the Danish journal Grønt Miljø, 2021.

Our project leaders Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner discuss Danish architecture from the 20th century in an interview for Landskab magazine.

Our architectural historian Jannie gave a talk on Danish architect Hanne Kjærholm at the opening of the installation “Pavilion (Voices, The Shifting, Copy)” at Holstebro Art Museum.

We visited the Danish national radio for an interview about our research project.

Open for registration now: PhD course on Architecture, Landscape and Gender – rethinking theory, methodology and practice.

In the summer of 2021, the research project Women in Danish Architecture 1925-75 initiated a team workshop facilitated by project member and designer Liv Løvetand Rahbek.

We are featured on the website of the Society of Architecture Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB). Find the essay here.

You can now watch or rewatch the video recording of our Women’s Day panel discussion.

Historian Dorthe Chakravarty did an interview with us for her eponymous podcast in celebration of International Women’s Day.

We are celebrating International Women’s Day 2021! Join us as we share six stories about collaboration, diversity and care in architecture. Save the date: March 8, 14.00 CET.

Danish magazine Grønt Miljø has published an article featuring our project research on women landscape architects from 1920s to 1940s in Denmark.

Guest blogging for Royal Danish Academy about our PhD course in 2020. The course, an offspring of our research project, hosted related, public events on architecture, landscape, and gender.

We would like to welcome you to the inaugural seminar of the research project Women in Danish Architecture 1925-1975 – A new history of gender and practice!