Gender and art

Lina Bo Bardi, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP)

 

"Lina Bo Bardi 100: Brazil's Alternative Path to Modernism is the most comprehensive assessment of the internationally renowned architect to take place outside of Brazil. The Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) defined her own particular artistic path through outstanding designs starting at the mid-twentieth century. In architecture as well as stage sets, graphic art, fashion and furniture design, she implemented impulses of Modernism, but interpreted them quite individually." 

 

Architekturmuseum München

14 Nov 2014 - 22 Feb 2015

http://www.architekturmuseum.de/

 

"IMMA presents a major retrospective of the work of Eileen Gray, one of the most celebrated and influential designers and architects of the 20th-century. Designed and produced by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with IMMA, this exhibition is a tribute to Gray’s career as a leading member of the modern design movement. The exhibition at IMMA celebrates Gray’s Irish roots and presents a number of previously unseen works that offer new insights into Gray’s extraordinary career."

 

Eileen Gray: Architect Designer Painter

12 October 2013 – 19 January 2014

IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

 

LONDON.- Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan has won the Design Museum Design of the Year Award 2014. Hadid is the first ever woman to win the top prize in the competition, now in its seventh year.

 

http://designmuseum.org/

 

A selection of artworks, books and ephemera related to British architect and educator Jane Drew.

Jane Drew (1911-1996) was a British architect and educator. Her work signaled a major shift from universal modernism to responsive and vernacular design. Drew was an instrumental agent across the projects and fields of urban and domestic design in which she worked, yet has remained unrecognised relative to her male contemporaries.

 

Jane Drew (1911-1996): An Introduction

12 Feb 2014 – 23 Mar 2014

Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London

http://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/jane-drew-1911-1996-introduction

 

Architects' Journal survey says that two thirds of female architects experience some form of sexism over their career, with nearly a third reporting regular occurrences