MoMoWo. Women. Architecture & Design Itineraries across Europe

This book is one of the main products of research carried out by the international project “MoMoWo - Women’s creativity since the Modern Movement” lead by the Polytechnic of Turin and co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. It offers a journey leading to the discovery of women’s creativity in the fields of architecture and design that reveals women’s contribution to the creation of European tangible cultural heritage and legacy of the last two centuries. It is the result of the MoMoWo’s cultural-tourist itineraries creation as well as being the first architectural and design guidebook devoted specifically to women’s works in Europe. The eighteen itineraries presented here focus on four cities - Barcelona, Lisbon, Paris and Turin - as well as on two countries - the Netherlands and Slovenia. They showcase different types of urban and non-urban works, sites and buildings, created by women in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The one hundred and twenty-five works published are the result of a selection undertaken to offer a wide variety of building types such as residential and industrial buildings and complexes, educational, religious, commercial and transport buildings, power stations, medical and care centres, cinemas, theatres, museums, offices and banks, sports halls and stadiums, playgrounds and gardens. This selection includes ex-novo buildings or reuse of pre-existing buildings, refurbishments and restoration works, extensions of buildings, urban design, garden design, landscape architecture as well as interior design. Geographical sections are completed by a biographical article about one or more women pioneers. The contents of this book are the results of academic research that was based on archives and bibliographic sources such as anthologies, almanacks, specialised magazines and technical journals. Investigations were also done in situ, in order to analyse building structures, techniques and materials.