Women in the history of architecture and design. Sailing to a new history

Architecture and Design History have long ignored the achievements of women professionals in architecture and design fields with the consequences that women have been denied their own place in History. Considering that, since the end of the nineteenth century, specialised magazines have covered works by creative women, it is surprising that their contribution has still not been completely acknowledged by mainstream histories or ‘seminal histories’. It is a fact, that the History of Contemporary Architecture and Design has too frequently favoured men professionals’ works simply omitting to mention works by their women colleagues. Despina Stratigakos’s book entitled "Where Are the Women Architects?" proves yet again that in 2016 this subject is far from being completed and it is still worthy of close attention. This essay considers gender studies in the fields of History of contemporary Architecture and Design critically tracing an international bibliography on the topic.