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Article: Constructing couples: as more women architects work in partnership with men, a new show looks at changes in a male-dominated profession. (architectural exhibit 'Equal Partners: Men and Women Principals in Contemporary Architectural Practice')(Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, through Dec 13, 1998)
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- House Beautiful
- Article date:
- November 1, 1998
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Even though creating domestic shelter has always been thought to have a deeply feminine component, architecture historically has been the profession most resistant to giving women the same opportunities and status as men. Only a century ago, Julia Morgan, future architect of Hearst Castle at San Simeon, became the first woman to study architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris because no architecture school in this country would have her.
More women were slowly admitted to architectural education and practice in the U.S., but almost none reached its upper echelons until after World War II, and even then very few did. Yet we now know that many of the early ...