Women's Day: designers and architects who marked history
On International Women's Day, CASACOR pays tribute to professionals who face daily challenges to be extraordinary in this competitive field
By Fernanda Drumond
Submitted at Mar 8, 2019, 12:08 PM
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Kazuyo Sejima (Ibaraki Prefecture, 1956) is the Japanese architect who won the 2010 Pritzker Prize. In 1995, she founded the Tokyo-based firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates). SANAA has projects in Japan, Germany, England, Spain, France, the Netherlands and the United States. These include the translucent Christian Dior building in Tokyo, Japan, the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, USA, and the recently opened Rolex Learning Center at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Pictured is the Community Center in Kodaira.
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Jane Drew is a British modernist architect who designed modern social housing in England and abroad during and after the Second World War. During her career she worked with her husband Maxwell Fry on schools and universities in West Africa, and with Pierre Jeanneret on housing in Chandigarh in northern India. Pictured is University College, Ibadan: Residential College by Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew. Credit: RIBA
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The Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi is one of the greatest representatives of Brazilian modernism. Her most representative work is the São Paulo Museum of Art – MASP (photo).
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Liz Diller is an American architect and partner at the firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro. She is also a professor at Princeton University. Diller was born in 1954 in Lodz, Poland, to Jewish parents. Today, she is one of the most influential people in the world of architecture, having designed the High Line Park in New York and the Museum of Image and Sound in Rio de Janeiro (pictured).
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Patricia Urquiola was born in Oviedo (Spain) in 1961. She lives and works in Milan, and attended the University of Architecture at the Polytechnic of Madrid and the Polytechnic of Milan, where she graduated in 1989 with Achille Castiglioni. Assistant professor to Achille Castiglioni and Eugenio Bettinelli in Milan and Paris, she is responsible for the new product development office at DePadova, working with Vico Magistretti, head of the design group at Lissoni Associati. Today she is one of the most prominent designers in the market. In the photo, her Mirage rug.
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Ray Eames, in partnership with his husband Charles, is one of the most respected names in the world of design. The two contributed to the creation of an innovative and democratic design, proven by their successful pieces conceived and admired over four decades. In the image, the DSW chairs.
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Claudia Moreira Salles was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1955 and graduated from the Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI) in the same city in 1978. She developed several projects for mass production in conjunction with industries. In the mid-1980s, she settled in São Paulo and began designing highly technical furniture with artisanal or semi-artisanal craftsmanship, using the possibilities of wood. The designer's creations have already crossed the borders of the country. Her furniture has been published in several specialized magazines in several countries and is sold in some cities abroad, such as New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Lisbon and Düsseldorf. In the image, Lumini lamps designed by the designer.
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Iconic gallerist, curator and designer Rossana Orlandi is always on the lookout for identifying – and launching – innovative young creators. From her creative studio in a former tie factory in Milan, she presents a refreshingly eclectic array of cutting-edge designs ranging from sunglasses to contemporary furniture.
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According to a census conducted by the Brazilian Council of Architecture and Urbanism (CAU), women currently represent 61% of professionals working in the country, while men represent 31%. Despite their late entry into the market, this proportion reflects the international female predominance in architecture. However, only Kazuyo Sejima and Zaha Hadid have been recognized with the Pritzker Prize. Although their names are not often mentioned in major awards ceremonies, female architects and designers are the owners of a very important legacy for our history. Check out some important names and their works in the gallery.
