Women Architects on the Road to an Egalitarian Profession—The Portuguese and Spanish Cases

Pérez-Moreno, Lucía C.; Santos Pedrosa, Patrícia

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Pérez-Moreno, Lucía C.

Santos Pedrosa, Patrícia

Abstract(s)

The 1970s was a key decade in the path towards democracy in the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal and Spain suffered deep social, cultural and political changes, with Salazar’s and Franco’s Totalitarian Regimes ending in 1974 and 1975 respectively. In both countries, located side-by-side in the Western end of Southern Europe, democracy was finally established, marking a turning point in the liberties of all Iberian citizens, but especially in regard to women’s life and work. As the Editorial of the Special Issue ‘Becoming a Gender Equity Democracy: Women and Architecture Practice in Spain and Portugal’, this text aims to briefly present this panorama to appreciate the particularities of Portugal and Spain in relation with the delay incorporation of women to the architecture profession. It explains the gender stereotypes of Salazar’s and Franco’s Regime in order to understand the discrimination against women that they produced and how it maintained women far from the architecture profession. Therefore, it provides useful data on the incorporation of women into architectural studies in order to understand the feminization of this gendered profession in both countries. This Special Issue aims to create an opportunity for researchers and scholars to present discussions and ongoing research on how democracy affected women that wanted to practice architecture as well as architectural analysis of women architects.

Keywords

Spanish architecture; Portuguese architecture; history of women; gender studies; architecture profession

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/28354

Citation

Pérez-Moreno, L. C., & Santos Pedrosa, P. (2020). Women Architects on the Road to an Egalitarian Profession—The Portuguese and Spanish Cases. Arts, 9(1), 40. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts9010040