women in architecture
CZ

About

The research project "Women in Architecture" (no. GA 21-22749S) was supported by the Czech Science Foundation and is institutionally headed by the National Gallery Prague (NGP) and Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (AAAD). The project focuses on comprehensive mapping and interpretation of women's creativity in architecture between 1945 and 2000 – within the context of socio-political changes in Czech Republic (former Czechoslovakia). It aims at the interpretation in terms of history of architecture (inserting women architects into the canon), as well as interdisciplinary overlap (sociology, general history, gender studies) – topics such as the practice of the architectural profession, the education of women architects, the balance between professional and private life, and reflection and recognition of women architects (representation in museum collections, professional journals, academia, management).

The outcomes of the project are two scientific articles, a scientific database and a final research monograph:

Klára Brůhová – Petra Hlaváčková – Šárka Malošíková, Kde jsou architektky? Odborné časopisy a formování genderových aspektů architektonického diskurzu, Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny, Prague 2022, no. 33, pp. 38–83. Online: https://vvp.avu.cz/sesit/sesit-33/.

Helena Huber-Doudová, Women in Architecture. Rethinking Collecting, Exhibiting and the Canon, Bulletin of the National Gallery in Prague, Prague 2023, no. 33, pp. 6–23.

Helena Huber-Doudová – Klára Brůhová – Petra Hlaváčková – Šárka Malošíková – Nikola Zahrádková, Women in Architecture. Architecture and Emancipation in the Czech Republic after 1945 [scientific database] 2023. Online: https://zenyvarchitekture.cz/.

Klára Brůhová – Helena Huber-Doudová (eds.), Women in Architecture: Critical Studies and Gender Analyses of the Czech Architectural Setting after 1945, Prague 2024

  

Research team

Helena Huber-Doudová

Helena Huber-Doudová

curator of the Architecture Collection of the National Gallery Prague (NGP), principal investigator of the research project for NGP

Biography

Mgr. et Mgr. Helena Huber-Doudová, Ph.D. completed her PhD studies in art history at the University of Zurich. She is principal investigator of the Czech Science Foundation research project Women in Architecture after 1945 in the Czech Republic for NGP. She was the commissioner and editor of the Czech representation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition. Among the exhibitions she has curated are No Demolitions! Forms of Brutalism in Prague (NGP, 2020) and 1956–1989: Architecture for All. Lifestyle–Everyday–Media (NGP, from 2022). She has published Shared Cities Atlas: Post-Socialist Cities and Active Citizenship in Central Europe (Rotterdam, 2019) and Modern Woman–Architect: Projection and Reality in Central Europe after 1900 (Prague, 2022), Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter. OMA Script for West Berlin (New York, 2024).

helena.huber-doudova@ngprague.cz

Klára Brůhová

Klára Brůhová

architectural historian, academic and scientific researcher at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (AAAD) and Faculty of Architecture CTU in Prague, head of the research project

Biography

Ing. arch. Mgr. et Mgr. Klára Brůhová, Ph.D. is an architectural historian with a focus on the history of architecture and urbanism of the 20th century. She is the (co)author of the books Prague Unbuilt (2017), Prague Visions (2018), Brutalist Prague (2019) and co-editor Unbuilt: Architecture of the 1980s (2020), and has contributed to a number of other publications. Her current research focuses on feminist contexts of (the history of) architecture and the topic of research on women architects. She teaches at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague and at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. More information: https://www.umprum.cz/cs/lide/klara-bruhova

klara.bruhova@umprum.cz

Petra Hlaváčková

Petra Hlaváčková

cultural theorist, curator, publicist and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, member of the research team

Biography

Mgr. Petra Hlaváčková, Ph.D. is architecture historian, curator and journalist, who has long been dealing with the topic of feminist approaches in art and architecture history, gender equality in urban planning and gender politics of CS state socialism. She is professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. As co-founder of the 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media she was involved in creating exhibitions like Kill Your Idol (part of the Czech-Slovak pavilion for 13th Architecture Venice Biennale) or Compact City. She is editor of the Brno Architecture Manual and worked as editor for the A2 cultural biweekly and the ERA21 architecture magazine. She received international scholarships such as Aktion Österreich, Artist in Residence MQ Vienna or fellowship of Milena Jesenská in the Institute of Human Science (IWM) in Vienna. She is editor of the publication Architecture of Care (2019). Currently she studies a PhD at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.

petrahlavackova7@gmail.com

Šárka Malošíková

Šárka Malošíková

architect and PhD student at the Faculty of Architecture CTU in Prague, member of the research team

Biography

Ing. arch. Šárka Malošíková is a practising architect and a PhD student and instructor at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Currently, she is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado, Denver. Her research focuses on design-build projects and architectural education in general. Two years ago, she published a book on design-build education in Europe called Navrhni a postav. Výuka design-build projektů na školách architektury (2018). She is also co-editor of Kruh – Texty o architektuře 2010-2013 (2014). She worked in several architectural offices both in Prague and abroad (e.g. Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Heiden&von Beckerath), and since 2013, she has taught in design studios at the Faculty of Architecture CTU in Prague.

malosikova.sarka@gmail.com

Nikola Zahrádková

Nikola Zahrádková

research assistant, documenter of the NGP Architecture Collection, member of the research team

Biography

Mgr. Nikola Zahrádková is an architectural historian, a graduate of Art History at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (specializing in Early Modern Architecture) and Media Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. She is interested in the presentation of architecture in the media environment, gender issues in architecture and the history of 20th century architecture. She works at the National Gallery in Prague as a documenter and assistant to the Architecture Collection.

nikola.zahradkova@ngprague.cz

Interdisciplinary team

Denisa Nečasová

historian, member of a broader interdisciplinary team

Biography

Doc. Mgr. Denisa Nečasová, Ph.D., is a historian and associate professor at the Institute of History, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno.

Barbora Vacková

sociologist, member of a broader interdisciplinary team

Biography

Mgr. Barbora Vacková, Ph.D., is a sociologist and assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Masaryk University and at the Department of Civic Education, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno.

Karina Hoření

sociologist, member of a broader interdisciplinary team

Biography

Mgr. Karina Hoření is a historian and sociologist, currently working at the Institute of Slavonic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Mary Pepchinski

architectural historian, professor emeritus at Dresden University of Technology, expert consultant

Biography

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mary Pepchinski is architectural historian, professor emeritus at Dresden University of Technology.

Barbora Řepková

architectural historian, external collaborator of the research team

Biography

Mgr. Barbora Řepková, DiS. is an architectural historian, an art history graduate at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, where she also started her doctoral studies. She participates in projects of the National Gallery Prague and the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Authors

Šárka Bahounková ŠB

Klára Brůhová KB

Magdalena Dědičová MD

Denisa Dolanská DD

Petra Hlaváčková PH

Karina Hoření KH

Helena Huber-Doudová HHD

Petr Klíma PK

Martina Koukalová MK

Šárka Malošíková ŠM

Tereza Macháčková TM

Miroslav Pavel MP

Barbora Řepková BŘ

Šárka Svobodová ŠS

Ema Šmídová EŠ

Nikola Zahrádková NZ



Database: Women in Architecture: Architecture and Emancipation in the Czech Republic after 1945

Concept: Helena Huber-Doudová, Klára Brůhová, Petra Hlaváčková, Šárka Malošíková, Nikola Zahrádková

Production and management: Helena Huber-Doudová, Petra Hlaváčková, Nikola Zahrádková, Klára Brůhová

Texts and biographies: authors of texts in the database are listed in each database entry with initials of their names

Copy-editing: Šárka Malošíková, Barbora Řepková, Nikola Zahrádková, Petra Hlaváčková, Helena Huber-Doudová, Klára Brůhová

Proofreading: Jan Kovanda

Research interviews and audio-editing: Petra Hlaváčková, Klára Brůhová, Šárka Malošíková, Helena Huber-Doudová

Methodology of the interviews: Klára Brůhová, Petra Hlaváčková, Karina Hoření, Barbora Vacková

Interview transcripts: Nikola Zahrádková, Barbora Řepková

Postproduction of audiofiles/podcasts: Marek Badinský, Petra Hlaváčková, Jan Karhánek

Organisation and production of questionnaire survey: Nikola Zahrádková, Helena Huber-Doudová

Digitisation of image materials from private archives and the NGP: David Stecker, National Gallery in Prague

Graphic design: Formall — grafické studio

Programming: Awete

The database was acquired by NGP and UMPRUM

List of author's contributions: download



Acknowledgement

We would like to thank all the women in architecture who decided to join our project and share information about their lives and work with us, whether by filling in a questionnaire, providing an interview or images, or by kind words and support. We would like to thank Milena Bartlová, Martina Pachmanová, Elke Krasny and Mariann Simon for their expert consultations. For administrative support we thank our colleagues from UMPRUM and NGP.

We would also like to thank the students from the Faculty of Architecture CTU in Prague and AAAD in Prague, who participated in research activities during the seminars Postwar Architecture and Czech Architecture after 1945. Among them were: Tomáš Beník, Natália Bodnárová, Kryštof Bouřil, Valerie Cechová, Marie Cikhartová, Magdalena Dědičová, Alžběta Formanová, Ludmila Gazdová, Alexandra Gnidiaková, Rebecca Gray, Karolína Hamplová, Bianka Hudáková, Barbora Chotěborová, Filip Janík, Tereza Johnová, František Jungvirt, Matěj Kepeň, Petr Lipenský, Filip Malata, Kamila Mrázová, Jana Mýtinová, Tomáš Němec, Hai Anh Nguyenová, Andrea Eliana Opletalová, Karolína Petřeková, Natálie Procházková, Alžběta Prosová, Markéta Ptáčková, Tadeáš Rulík, Daniela Semencová, Max Schroder, Zdeněk Slavíček, Marie Smetanová, Ema Soukupová, Štefan Strapko, Ema Šmídová, Viktorie Taberyová, Vít Tuček, Nikola Turečková, Antonie Varju, Adéla Vavříková, Natálie Vavřinová, Klára Vinklárková, Laura Voštiarová, Vojtěch Vydržel, Anna Zatloukalová and Jakub Žanony.

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Contact:

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