Arquitectas: (Des)construindo Percursos

Abstract

This Master Dissertation, The Female Architects: (Des)constructing Paths, requires a reflection about women´s legacy in Architecture and the work partnerships between both genders, nationally and internationally. Women jouney in Architecture started late, due to the slow acess to the gender at superior studies and, it´s directly linked with major social accomplishments made through the centuries. Even though womens work in architecture came a long way, their insight is still very invisible, like we saw happening the past. Working by themselves or in partnerships, they are still a background figure, even in partnerships the central figure is the male. It urges, to envelop womens main role and (in)visibility of their work so that it can be (re) built in terms of the representativity, nature and limits of the architecture itself. This work is an attempt to reformulate an architecture so that it includes the womens architects vision, in public life, professional and educational cenaries. As a final reflection we showcase the work of two portuguese architects Joana Vasconcelos e Fátima Fernandes as a contribution to their visibility and acknowledgment in Portuguese Architecture.