Kathleen James-Chakraborty: Zoom lecture for McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

The recent explosion of interest in the work of female architects does not fully capture the impact that woman have had on the shaping of the built environment. Documenting their activity as journalists, entrepreneurs, and institution builders, as well as extending the established scholarship on women’s patronage, enhances our ability to map their influence. Between 1920 and 1970, for instance, women carved out successful careers importing modern architecture and design into the United States, as well as disseminating it domestically and exporting it internationally. Reconstructing how they marketed modernism, often to other women, challenges our understanding of how tastes change and shifts our attention away from a focus on form towards issues such as identity formation and social distinction.

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