Beatriz Colomina on Gender, Collaborative Work, and Disease in Architecture

Architecture theorist, historian, and curator Beatriz Colomina talks about our discipline and its difficulty to accept the work as the result of a collaborative effort. When asked about sexism and gender issues within architecture, Colomina broadens the discussion and tackles the historical myth of architecture as the product of one single, brilliant – and always masculine – mind. A fiction that has obscured the role of a number of women, and whole teams, committed to the design process.

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