Minding her Business: Women, Architecture, and Design

13-15 June 2024

Dublin, Ireland

Minding her Business considers the overlooked activities of women entrepreneurs in the global dissemination of modern architecture.

Women have influenced the global dissemination of modern architecture and design through a wide variety of entrepreneurial activities. They have supervised the development, manufacture and marketing of innovative building materials. They have managed the processes through which buildings were created as real estate developers, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs and international aid workers. They have established and staffed shops that sold furnishings in new styles and created spaces in which architects gathered to exchange ideas. And, as editors and journalists, they have marketed products to consumers in the shelter press and general interest women’s magazines. An awareness of all of these roles supplements the increasing attention being paid to women architects and enables us to understand the influence that women have long had in shaping the world around them.

Keynote speaker: Nina Stritzler-Levine, Bard Graduate Center, New York