Female Pioneers in Dutch Housing Design: The role of women in post-war housing innovatyionss in the Netherlands ; Pioneras en arquitectura en los Países Bajos: El papel de las mujeres en las innovaciones de vivienda de la posguerra en los Países Bajos

This article approaches post-war housing innovation in the Netherlands from a feminist perspective, shedding light on the hitherto unkown roles played by women architects. It introduces the work of Dutch women architects, some of it acknowledged at the time of its creation, some completely unknown. First, Augustine Schreuder-Gratama, one of the first female students in Delft in the 1920s, and the Women Advisory Committee (VAC) for social housing ?specifically their role as model homes exhibitions developers in the context of housing industrialisation in the 1950s, in which other organizations... Mehr ...