'Eileen Gray' Examines The Relationship Between Genius And Gender
Even in our current climate, it's sobering to consider how the profession of architecture treated modernist pioneer Eileen Gray. This graphic history is a thought-provoking, if incomplete, reflection.
If you were to make a list of professions in which women have failed to achieve a fair share of renown, one of the topmost entries would surely be architecture.
Most American architecture schools actually refused to admit women until 1972, when the Title IX law forced them to. More recently, over half of women responding to a 2017 said they'd experienced "sexism, bullying and/or sexual harassment" in the previous year. ("Nearly a quarter" of male respondents said they'd endured the same treatment, proving yet again that oppressive systems
