SAH WiA AG Special Virtual Event celebrating International Women’s Day 2026
“Conversations with the Authors: Architecture & Feminist Critical Theory followed by Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture.”
A free virtual event open to all. Please register beforehand here: %257Cf8e42ec9a31941a15de908de447e21f6%257C3a228dfbc64744cb88357b20617fc906%257C0%257C0%257C639023505701811085%257CUnknown%257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ==%257C0%257C%257C%257C&sdata=Krakp4IrKakJXkLpZojvlQH7bn4f/VLfK+5F24Rr/Fw=&reserved=0">https://sah1365.zoom.us/j/83774738733?pwd=RkhcXctT8G8TXoaWcg8aCP5jibSNVf.1.
Date: Tuesday 10 March 2026 2:00pm – 4:00pm (CDT)
Organizers/Moderators: Sarah Bonnemaison, Dalhousie University, Canada and Shelley E. Roff, University of Texas at San Antonio, U.S.
Speakers: Hilde Heynen, University of Leuven, Belgium, Lucia C. Perez-Moreno, University of Zaragoza, Spain; Karen Burns, The University of Melbourne, Australia; Lori A. Brown, Syracuse University, U.S.
Description
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2026, the SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group invites you to participate in two unique books launches. The event is structured as two separate conversations between editors and authors, followed by an open discussion.
1- Architecture and Feminist Critical Theory: Selected Writings by Hilde Heynen (University of Leuven Press, 2025)
“Heynen is a Belgian architectural theorist whose work bridges neo-Marxist critical theory and current feminist discourse, applying these perspectives to architectural culture. This volume collects her most significant texts from three decades of intellectual work, centred on three feature concepts: mimesis, dwelling, and displacement. It offers readers incisive reflections on architects’ roles in shaping societies and the alliance between ideology, societal structures of injustice, political economy, housing and the built environment. Within a fierce post-critical debate among scholars who have begun to question the relevance of architectural theory to the discipline in the early twenty-first century, Heynen’s position remains constant throughout her writings in defence of architectural theory as a social and transformative practice. This collection is essential reading for new generations of architects and cultural theorists interested in modernity, gender and criticality.”
This volume’s editor Lucia C. Perez-Moreno will engage the intellectual protagonist of the book, Hilde Heynen, in a mock interview concerning Heynen’s writings which reflect three decades of intellectual work on architectural theory and feminist discourse.
2- Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2020 (Bloomsbury, 2026)
“The Global Encyclopedia…fills a void in architectural history, giving students, scholars and professional architects an authoritative reference to women architects and their work, and to key terms for gender and feminism in architecture. Surging interest in women architects over the last decade has launched equity campaigns, lobby organisations, international prizes, books and research. Issues of women, architecture and gender are now at the centre of architecture’s public stage and the hitherto absent histories of women in architecture have become of urgent interest. […] Women now comprise half of all architecture students in many countries but students and scholars lack authoritative, globally connected histories of female mentors, peers and forebears. The encyclopedia introduces them to the notable and overlooked women of the global built world, unearthing hidden histories and founding a new field of historical scholarship.”
“Within a geographical and historical framework, key architects from over 135 countries are included in detailed biographical entries. Coverage includes an expanded field of women designers from related fields (urbanism, landscape, and interiors) plus an enlarged sphere of architectural practice including influential scholars, writers, and activists as well as key terms, themes, books, conferences and exhibitions.”
The editors Karen Burns and Lori A. Brown will discuss their journey in researching and editing Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture.