FRAU ARCHITEKT

Whether the future is truly female remains to be seen: Although well over half of all students at architecture faculties are now women, by no means all of them actually make it in the profession, and very few make it to the front row – where architecture is still a man’s job. FRAU ARCHITEKT explores the topic in 22 portraits, examples of works, and very personal stories of women who have had a significant influence on architecture or are shaping it today. It begins with Emilie Winkelmann, who founded the first architectural office in Germany in 1907, and ends with building in the post-reunification period, in Berlin and the new German states. Some of the female architects are little or not at all known even to the professional world, let alone to the general public.

With contriburions from Lori Brown, Christina Budde, Sigal Davidi, Christiane Droste, Magdalena Droste, Oliver Elser, Christina Gräwe, Heike Hambrock, Edeltraud Haselsteiner, Josenia Hérvas y Heras, Hilde Heynen, Sandra Huning, Karl Kiem, Claudia Lenz, Hans-Georg Lippert, Petra Lohmann, Ursula Müller, Hanneke Oosterhof, Mary Pepchinski, Kerstin Renz, Tanja Scheffler, Peter Cachola Schmal, Eva C. Schweitzer, Ines Sonder, Despina Stratigakos, Wolfgang Voigt, Sabine Weißler, Laura Weissmüller und Karin Wilhelm.