Compliments to Our Brave Architect! : The Netherlands' First Women Architects

Margaret Staal-Kropholler (1891-1966) is regarded as the first woman architect in the Netherlands. She completed her first work as an unqualified architect in 1917. Less well known is that Grada Wolffensperger (1887-1965) became the first woman to complete the univer-sity course in architecture at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft that same year. A further twenty women had completed their architectural training by 1945. Why and how did these women become architects at a time when women were expected to raise a family and take care of a house-hold? What was their education like? And was it actually possible for them to practise a profession so dominated by men?. Compliments to our brave architect! describes the emergence of women architects. Including 21 biographies, the book forms an indispensable reference work on a neglected aspect of Dutch architectural history.

Author: Erica Smeets-Klokgieters

Publisher: Nai010 Publishers

Publication Date: Mar 26, 2024

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 9462088152

ISBN-13: 9789462088153