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About women in architecture. Meeting with Agata Twardoch

23 of September '22

Is there a "female architecture"? What does discrimination against female architects and urban planners look like? These and many other questions will be answered this Thursday (September 29) by Agata Twardoch at a meeting organized by the Poznan Association of Polish Architects and the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Arts in Poznan. You are cordially invited to attend!

The meeting will also focus on Agata Twardoch's latest book, "FemaleArchitects. Will women design better cities?", stereotypes, university reality and feminativities. Questions will be raised about good role models and whether there is a chance that gender will not matter to investors?

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The organizers invite to participate in the meeting in particular female architecture students and architects with experience, but also male architects and people from outside the architectural community. They count on the activity of the participants, sound arguments and polite polemics.

  • date: September 29 this year. (Thursday), 7:00 pm,
  • place: Atrium of the University of Arts in Poznań, building B, 20 Lutego St., Poznań
  • organizers: SARP Poznań, UAP
  • event partner: Lena Lighting

Agata Twardoch is an architect and urban planner, professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Silesian University of Technology, member of TUP and Affordable Housing Forum. She co-runs the design studio 44STO. She works on accessible housing and alternative forms of housing, and conducts academic research, open popularization lectures and design workshops. He writes for trade magazines. She designs urban assumptions and advises cities. She is the author of the book "System to Housing. Prospects for the development of accessible housing". In May 2022, the publishing house W.A.B. published her latest book "Female Architects. Will women design better cities?".


compiled by: Dobrawa Bies

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