Ufortalte Historier - om kvinder, kon og arkitektur i Danmark
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Ufortalte Historier - om kvinder, kon og arkitektur i Danmark
Untold Stories - on Women, Gender and Architecture in Denmark
Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen, Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner
Strandberg Publishing
ISBN: 978-87-94102 67-4
Published 18 June 2023
A week or so ago, the Copenhagen publisher Strandberg sent me their press release for a new book on women in architecture in Denmark that was released today.
It covers the period from 1930 to 1980 that is generally recognised as the classic period for modern Danish design. Here the focus is on the architecture and the buildings linked with the emergence of the Danish welfare state and the key role played by women, working as architects and designers, in “creative collaborations that cut across genders and professional disciplines” and included the design of houses, major civic buildings, landscape architecture and urban planning.
The authors are part of an ongoing research project Women in Danish Architecture at the University of Copenhagen. Last summer they were part of the team that curated a major exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center on Women in Architecture in Denmark.
The book is published both in Danish and in an English edition for sale internationally.
Kvinder skaber rum / Women in architecture
at the Danish Architecture Center from 13 May 2022 to 23 October 2022
