Research Focus
Switzerland’s Women Architects
Research Focus
Prof. Dr. Sylvia Claus, Sabine Sträuli, Marie-Anne Lerjen and the students of the gta MAS
2018–2020
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Annemarie Hubacher-Constam and Anna Cordes working on a model for SAFFA 58
Private archive of Annemarie Hubacher-Constam
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Swiss Exhibition for Women’s Work (SAFFA 58), the gta MAS organized the research seminar “Switzerland’s Women Architects” in the fall of 2018. It was led by Sylvia Claus (gta MAS director through December 2018), Sabine Sträuli and Marie-Anne Lerjen. The work and realized buildings of women architects in Switzerland continues to be underrepresented in architectural scholarship. With an earlier research project on Switzerland’s first woman architect, Lux Guyer (1894–1955), the gta MAS had already significantly contributed toward writing this history.
In the seminar “Switzerland’s Women Architects,” students studied the conditions specific to Swiss architects in the course of the twentieth century and selected works were compared according to building type. Architects included early pioneers Flora Steiger-Crawford (1899–1991), Berta Rahm (1910–1998) and Jeanne Bueche (1912–2000), as well as contemporary protagonists Regina Gonthier (*1949) und Inès Lamunière (*1954), among others. Archival research and interviews shed new light on individuals’ careers as well as on relationships among projects.
The result will be presented on a website designed by gta MAS students and alumni in collaboration with BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. The website reflects on twenty architects’ experiences through personal portraits and three selected projects each. The website also includes a younger generation of women architects, among them Corinna Menn (*1974) and Angela Deuber (*1975).
Contributing gta MAS students: Bülent Abbasoglu, Kadir Asani, Nina Baisch, Anna Derriks, Miriam Dobler, Christoph Feinweber, Rune Frandsen, Rebekka Hirschberg, Constanze Kummer, Bianca Matzek, Eva Nägeli, Haaike Peeters, Lucia Pennati, Hanae Pfändler, Franziska Quandt, Olga Rausch, Florian Rietmann, Catherine Sark, Philipp Sax, Francine Speiser, Alexia Zeller
Website (in progress): www.schweizerarchitektinnen.ch
Prof. Dr. Sylvia Claus, Sabine Sträuli, Marie-Anne Lerjen and the students of the gta MAS
2018–2020
[pic-nolightbox-20200414-200111-z904.jpg]
Annemarie Hubacher-Constam and Anna Cordes working on a model for SAFFA 58
Private archive of Annemarie Hubacher-Constam
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Swiss Exhibition for Women’s Work (SAFFA 58), the gta MAS organized the research seminar “Switzerland’s Women Architects” in the fall of 2018. It was led by Sylvia Claus (gta MAS director through December 2018), Sabine Sträuli and Marie-Anne Lerjen. The work and realized buildings of women architects in Switzerland continues to be underrepresented in architectural scholarship. With an earlier research project on Switzerland’s first woman architect, Lux Guyer (1894–1955), the gta MAS had already significantly contributed toward writing this history.
In the seminar “Switzerland’s Women Architects,” students studied the conditions specific to Swiss architects in the course of the twentieth century and selected works were compared according to building type. Architects included early pioneers Flora Steiger-Crawford (1899–1991), Berta Rahm (1910–1998) and Jeanne Bueche (1912–2000), as well as contemporary protagonists Regina Gonthier (*1949) und Inès Lamunière (*1954), among others. Archival research and interviews shed new light on individuals’ careers as well as on relationships among projects.
The result will be presented on a website designed by gta MAS students and alumni in collaboration with BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. The website reflects on twenty architects’ experiences through personal portraits and three selected projects each. The website also includes a younger generation of women architects, among them Corinna Menn (*1974) and Angela Deuber (*1975).
Contributing gta MAS students: Bülent Abbasoglu, Kadir Asani, Nina Baisch, Anna Derriks, Miriam Dobler, Christoph Feinweber, Rune Frandsen, Rebekka Hirschberg, Constanze Kummer, Bianca Matzek, Eva Nägeli, Haaike Peeters, Lucia Pennati, Hanae Pfändler, Franziska Quandt, Olga Rausch, Florian Rietmann, Catherine Sark, Philipp Sax, Francine Speiser, Alexia Zeller
Website (in progress): www.schweizerarchitektinnen.ch
