Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism

$65.00 at de Young Museum.

A comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American Modernism.In the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily. Women Architects at Work tells the stories of the resilient and resourceful women who surmounted barriers of sexism, racism, and classism to take on crucial roles in the establishment and growth of Modernism across the United States.Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D…