Making Space
Description
Brilliant, hardworking and creative, women architects have made many significant contributions to the built environment, creativity and community of Aotearoa New Zealand. This groundbreaking book spans over a century, telling the story of women making space for themselves in a male-dominated profession while designing architectural, landscape and urban spaces.
Written by 30 leading women architects, architectural historians and academics, the book's bold, vivid chapters shine light on hundreds of remarkable women, including many whose careers have until now been lost to the historical record. It also canvasses those using architecture to benefit whanau and communities, the careers of women in associated industries, and the determined strategies many have adopted to make the architecture profession a better place for themselves and those who follow them.
Making Space is a significant contribution to our architectural and social history.
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Person
Elizabeth Cox is a Wellington historian who specialises in both architectural and women's history. She works as a senior historian at Manatu Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage, and runs a consultancy business exploring the history of New Zealand's heritage buildings. She has worked at both Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga and the National Trust (UK). Her book A Friend Indeed: The Saving of Old St Paul's, about the battle to save Old St Paul's Church in Wellington, was published in 2018. She is also a trustee of the Futuna Chapel in Wellington.