UIFA, UIA, IAB: Transnational Dialogues about Women Architects (1960-1967)

Abstract

The article discusses the transnational and interinstitutional debates of the 1960s between the Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil, the International Union of Architects and the International Union of Women Architects, which was created in France in 1963, as feminist activism intensified. It examines how, despite similarities between different professional fields in terms of gender hierarchies, differences in national contexts are closely related to how women struggled for equality in their practices and modes of institutional representation.