BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 13.3//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Central Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Central Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:March 27\, 2025\, \;11:00 AM&ndash\;12:30 PM (CST). \;J oin via ZoomMeeting ID: 852 5945 1814In her 1970 manifesto \;Female Re volt\, art critic Carla Lonzi underscores a pivotal shift: women\, no long er confined to the role of passive observers\, break free as active protag onists capable of charting new directions for the present and the future. &ldquo\;We have looked for 4\,000 years\; now we have seen!&rdquo\;\, she announced. av福利社's Women in Architecture affiliate group invite researchers\ , scholars\, and practitioners to a special event exploring how women embr aced the transformative shift from passive &ldquo\;looking&rdquo\; to acti ve &ldquo\;seeing&rdquo\; critically interrogating their roles in reshapin g architectural narratives. Panelists examine the multifaceted ways in whi ch women&mdash\;writers\, historians\, theorists\, editors\, curators\, di rectors\, archivists&mdash\;have redefined the way we discuss\, interpret\ , and see architecture.Presentations without temporal or geographical rest rictions address the following themes: the efforts by women to confront an d disrupt canonical and dominant historical narratives\; the impact of fem inist paradigms on historiography through approaches based on difference\, equality\, constructionist and intersectional thinking\; the redefinition of authorship and authority within architectural histories\; the expansio n of the architecture canon to include diverse and pluralistic voices. We are particularly interested in understanding how these objectives have bee n pursued through both public and uncredited roles\, disseminated through varied and unconventional outputs (such as exhibitions\, anthologies\, aut obiographical publications\, personal journals\, etc.). Contributions expl ore individual or collective initiatives\, and the subversive use of sourc es (oral histories\, archives) to revolt against established norms and nar ratives. Ultimately\, we seek examples that demonstrate the possibility of &ldquo\;seeing&rdquo\; as a critical project\, able to guide us through t he redefinition of what it means &ldquo\;architecture&rdquo\; today.Sessio n Chairs: \;Silvia Groaz \;PhD\, EPFL 2021\, \;ENSA Paris-EST\ , Université\; de Liè\;geBianca Felicori\, \;author\, cura tor\, \;UC LouvainBeatrice Lampariello \;PhD\, EPFL 2013\, UC Louv ainModerator: \;Rebecca Siefert PhD\, av福利社 WiA AG Associate ChairIntrod uction by Anna Sokolina PhD\, av福利社 WiA AG Founding ChairSpeakers: \;Ann e Massey\, School of Architecture and Design at the University for the Cre ative Arts\, CanterburyLé\;a-Catherine Szacka\,University of Manches terWomen Writing Architecture Editors \;Helen Thomas\, Emilie Apperc&e acute\;\, Jaehee Shin\, Estelle Gagliardi.This program is presented by the av福利社 Women in Architecture Affiliate Group. Please consider joining av福利社 as a member to contribute to this group. Learn more at sah.org/membership.&n bsp\;Get the Zoom Link \;PresentationsBehind the Scene. Anne MasseyThi s presentation explores the agency of women in architecture\, the ways in which history can be rewritten with women at the centre. It begins with an account of my mother\, who fulfilled the role of architect&rsquo\;s wife before seeking a divorce and finding her own career as a museum profession al. She was the inspiration behind my book\, Women in Design (Thames &\ ; Hudson\, 2022) where I not only explored women as architects in their ow n right\, but also the problems of the designer couple for women&rsquo\;s visibility in history. The book challenges the star architect phenomena\, where women are celebrated as lone creative geniuses\, equal to men\, by l ooking at women who worked behind the scenes. This then leads to a conside ration of the first Director of the ICA\, Dorothy Morland\, who worked tir elessly and anonymously to establish and enhance the careers of architects and writers such as Alison and Peter Smithson\, Reyner Banham and members of Archigram. I then finish with a mention of my two latest projects\, Cr aft-Design: Women&rsquo\;s Empowerment in the Global South and the interse ction between the working-class avant-garde and gender in post-war London at the ICA.Crossed Histories: Gae Aulenti\, Ada Louise Huxtable and Phylli s Lambert on Architecture and the City. Lé\;a-Catherine SzackaGae Au lenti (1927&ndash\;2012)\, Ada Louise Huxtable (1921&ndash\;2013) and Phyl lis Lambert (b. 1927) evolved in different contexts&mdash\;one in Europe\, the other two in North America&mdash\;but belonged to the same generation . Born in the 1920s\, roughly a century ago\, they were from &lsquo\;famil ies that allowed a liberal education and prepared them to grow into profes sional careers whose profiles they could invent themselves&rsquo\;. Reimag ining what architecture could be and working in environments where they we re not expected\, these women were able to innovate and break the glass ce iling. Their agency on architecture and the city can be distilled through three common threads across their otherwise diverse paths. First\, all thr ee women were active during the shift between modernism and postmodernism and adopted an ambivalent position\, a nuance that characterized their mod us operadi\; second\, they had a common sensibility towards history and ha ve been\, in one way or the other\, instrumental in the debate over buildi ng conservation\; third\, they all shared a belief in the need for public engagement in the creation of the city&mdash\;both through public spaces a nd through public voices. Using these three lines of inquiry\, this presen tation explores the professional and personal trajectories of three pionee rs of the XX century to challenge canonical architectural and urban histor iographies of the postwar period and writes women back into history.Women Writing Architecture. Helen Thomas\, Emilie Appercé\;\, Jaehee Shin\ , Estelle GagliardiWomen Writing Architecture (wwa) operates as a collecti ve effort to redefine architectural discourse through a feminist\, communi ty-driven approach to creating an annotated bibliography. Historically\, a rchitectural writing has been shaped by a dominant\, patriarchal voice\, o ne that privileges singular authorship\, institutional validation\, and hi erarchical knowledge production. In contrast\, wwa seeks to gather sources from a wide field without prejudice\, in a method that relies on recommen dation rather than self-promotion as a measure of value and validity. Thre e representatives of the editorial team will reflect critically on the pos sibility of wwa&rsquo\;s transformative impact as an ongoing and evolving process. The presentation begins with an exploration of the platform&rsquo \;s origins and intention to seek an alternative\, not a replacement\, to established narratives while fostering encouragement and opportunity for u nder-represented voices in architecture. Addressing the role of friendship and collaboration as feminist methodologies\, we will consider how collec tive authorship\, and shared discourses create new forms of value and mean ing. Finally\, an examination of the granular process of inviting contribu tors and curating texts will show how the slow\, deliberate craft of share d learning enables the active practice of &lsquo\;seeing&rsquo\; and reima gining what it means to write and to be seen in architecture practice toda y.We express our gratitude for support to the Society of Architectural His torians for providing the av福利社 Google Platform for Affiliate Groups\, and t o Christopher Kirbabas\, av福利社 Director of Programs\, for continuous support of our Virtual events. DTEND:20250327T173000Z DTSTAMP:20250510T071328Z DTSTART:20250327T160000Z LOCATION:United States\,Online webinar SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:We Have Looked for 4\,000 Years\; Now We Have Seen! UID:RFCALITEM638824580080516304 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

March 27\, 2025\, \;11:00 AM&ndas h\;12:30 PM (CST). \;

Meeting ID: 852 5945 1814

In her 1970 manifesto \;Female Revolt\, art critic Carla Lonzi underscores a pivotal shift: women\, no longer confine d to the role of passive observers\, break free as active protagonists cap able of charting new directions for the present and the future. &ldquo\;We have looked for 4\,000 years\; now we have seen!&rdquo\;\, she announced.

av福利社's Women in Architecture affiliate group invite re searchers\, scholars\, and practitioners to a special event exploring how women embraced the transformative shift from passive &ldquo\;looking&rdquo \; to active &ldquo\;seeing&rdquo\; critically interrogating their roles i n reshaping architectural narratives. Panelists examine the multifaceted w ays in which women&mdash\;writers\, historians\, theorists\, editors\, cur ators\, directors\, archivists&mdash\;have redefined the way we discuss\, interpret\, and see architecture.

Presentations without temporal or geographical restrictions address the following themes: the e fforts by women to confront and disrupt canonical and dominant historical narratives\; the impact of feminist paradigms on historiography through ap proaches based on difference\, equality\, constructionist and intersection al thinking\; the redefinition of authorship and authority within architec tural histories\; the expansion of the architecture canon to include diver se 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 e xhibitions\, anthologies\, autobiographical publications\, personal journa ls\, etc.). Contributions explore individual or collective initiatives\, a nd the subversive use of sources (oral histories\, archives) to revolt aga inst established norms and narratives. Ultimately\, we seek examples that demonstrate the possibility of &ldquo\;seeing&rdquo\; as a critical projec t\, able to guide us through the redefinition of what it means &ldquo\;arc hitecture&rdquo\; today.

Session Ch airs: \;

Mode rator: \;Rebecca Siefert PhD\, av福利社 WiA AG Associate Chair

Introduction by Anna Sokolina PhD\ , av福利社 WiA AG Founding Chair

Speakers: \;

This program is presented by the av福利社 Women in Architecture Affiliate Group. Please consider joining av福利社 as a member to contribute to this group. Learn more at . \;

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Presentations

Behind the Scene. Anne Massey

This presentation explores the agency of women in arch itecture\, the ways in which history can be rewritten with women at the ce ntre. It begins with an account of my mother\, who fulfilled the role of a rchitect&rsquo\;s wife before seeking a divorce and finding her own career as a museum professional. She was the inspiration behind my book\, Wo men in Design (Thames &\; Hudson\, 2022) where I not only explored women as architects in their own right\, but also the problems of the des igner couple for women&rsquo\;s visibility in history. The book challenges the star architect phenomena\, where women are celebrated as lone creativ e geniuses\, equal to men\, by looking at women who worked behind the scen es. This then leads to a consideration of the first Director of the ICA\, Dorothy Morland\, who worked tirelessly and anonymously to establish and e nhance the careers of architects and writers such as Alison and Peter Smit hson\, Reyner Banham and members of Archigram. I then finish with a mentio n of my two latest projects\, Craft-Design: Women&rsquo\;s Empowerment in the Global South and the intersection between the working-class a vant-garde and gender in post-war London at the ICA.< /span>

Crossed Histories: Gae Aulenti\, Ada Louise Huxtable and Phyllis Lambert on Architecture and the City. Lé\;a-Catherine Szacka

Gae Aulenti (1927&ndash\;2012)\, Ada Louise Huxta ble (1921&ndash\;2013) and Phyllis Lambert (b. 1927) evolved in different contexts&mdash\;one in Europe\, the other two in North Americ a&mdash\;but belonged to the same generation. Born in the 1920s\, roughly a century ago\, they were from &lsquo\;families that allowed a liberal edu cation and prepared them to grow into professional careers whose profiles they could invent themselves&rsquo\;. Reimagining what archit ecture could be and working in environments where they were not expected\, these women were able to innovate and break the glass ceiling. Their agen cy on architecture and the city can be distilled through thre e common threads across their otherwise diverse paths. First\, all three w omen were active during the shift between modernism and postmodernism and adopted an ambivalent position\, a nuance that characterized their modus o peradi\; second\, they had a common sensibility towards history and have b een\, in one way or the other\, instrumental in the debate over building c onservation\; third\, they all shared a belief in the need for public engagement in the creation of the city&mdash\;both through public spaces and through public voices. Using these three lines of inquiry\, th is presentation explores the professional and personal trajectories of thr ee pioneers of the XX century to challenge canonical architectural and urb an historiographies of the postwar period and writes women back into histo ry.

Women Writing Architectu re. Helen Thomas\, Emilie Appercé\;\, Jaehee Shin\, Estelle Gagliardi

Women Wri ting Architecture (wwa) operates as a collective effort to redefine archit ectural discourse through a feminist\, community-driven approach to creati ng an annotated bibliography. Historically\, architectural writing has bee n shaped by a dominant\, patriarchal voice\, one that privileges singular authorship\, institutional validation\, and hierarchical knowledge product ion. In contrast\, wwa seeks to gather sources from a wide field without p rejudice\, in a method that relies on recommendation rather than self-prom otion as a measure of value and validity. Three representatives of the edi torial team will reflect critically on the possibility of wwa&rsquo\;s tra nsformative impact as an ongoing and evolving process. The presentation be gins with an exploration of the platform&rsquo\;s origins and intention to seek an alternative\, not a replacement\, to established narratives while fostering encouragement and opportunity for under-represented voices in a rchitecture. Addressing the role of friendship and collaboration as femini st methodologies\, we will consider how collective authorship\, and shared discourses create new forms of value and meaning. Finally\, an examinatio n of the granular process of inviting contributors and curating texts will show how the slow\, deliberate craft of shared learning enables the activ e practice of &lsquo\;seeing&rsquo\; and reimagining what it means to writ e and to be seen in architecture practice today.

We express our gratitude for support to the Society of Architectural Histo rians for providing the av福利社 Google Platform for Affiliate Groups\, and to Christopher Kirbabas\, av福利社 Director of Programs\, for continuous support o f our Virtual events.

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