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Acknowledgement on our interactive map, website and social networks.
Acknowledgement in our next scientific publications plus the above.
In addition to the above, we will send you a copy of the publication associated with the project.
Do you want to know interactively what buildings and urban spaces have been designed by women since the 1960s?
What is our goal? This research project has the basic objective of creating a digital interactive map in order to situate and document the work of Spanish women architects that we are at present studying as part of the research project “Women in Spanish (post)modern architectural culture, 1965-2000”. This interactive map will be free to use via a website for anybody who wishes to visit it. The works will appear geo-positioned and classified according to their type (single-family dwelling, collective dwelling, educational centre, urban design, institutional building, park, health centre, heritage restoration, etc.), their date of completion and their female authorship (indicating the project team). It will be accompanied by an explanation with relevant details and a critical commentary on the works shown, as well as informative photographs about them. This map is necessary because, despite the fact that hundreds of women have been practising architecture for more than half a century, their works hardly ever appear in books or manuals on the history of Spanish architecture. As a result, there is a dearth of knowledge concerning the contributions made by women architects to Spain’s built environment and its architectural culture. Therefore, the creation of a digital interactive map to enable the consultation of their works will be an extremely useful and easy to access tool that will allow us to overcome the current state of ignorance concerning female-authored architecture. This map will show visually, in a quick, simple and compelling way, the numerous works of architecture, urban planning, design and landscape created by Spanish women. After a year and a half of work, we have already documented and analysed around a hundred works by some sixty Spanish architects built between 1965 and 2000. In addition, we have managed to locate other works of shared authorship with male colleagues. In the next year and a half, we hope to further analyse several hundred more works designed by women architects. With this interactive map we want to create a digital archive tool that becomes a consultation resource for future researchers and architecture lovers.
Who will benefit from our project? This research project benefits all those interested in art and architecture and their respective histories, both nationally and internationally. Studying and analysing the work done by Spanish women architects since the 1960s, contextualising it in its historical moment and assessing its contribution to Spanish architectural culture will be essential to expose female talent and to make society as a whole aware of the buildings and women authored urban spaces that exist in our country. This project will also greatly benefit the entire educational community related to architecture and the built environment: teachers, researchers and students. It will generate new knowledge and awareness of neglected architecture in the books and manuals currently used for teaching in schools, colleges and universities. It will also open new avenues of investigation for future researchers in art and architecture history. Furthermore, specialised tourism will be encouraged by promoting visits to cities and towns where the architects studied have designed buildings and public spaces. The creation of the interactive map will help to analyse, study and publicise the work done by women in architecture, showing how they have been actively involved in this discipline for decades. In this way we will avoid our understanding of the history of Spanish architecture becoming skewed by gender and limited to the study of male authored architecture, which belies the reality of the profession.
Do you want more information? You can see all the activities we carry out on our website: scientific publications already published, participation in national and international conferences, videos made about our annual scientific meetings, as well as a podcast of our participation in the media. You can also read more technical information about the project and meet all the members of the team. You can visit us at: www.muwo.unizar.es You can also follow us on social networks: If you want to know more about the main research project, you can access its curriculum here: https://janovas.unizar.es/sideral/CV/lucia-carmen-perez-moreno
Team The research project is led by Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno, Ph.D. in Architecture, Associate Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Zaragoza and researcher at the Institute of Heritage and Humanities (IPH) of this university. Ph.D. Pérez-Moreno studied Architecture at the University of Navarra where she received the Extraordinary End of Studies Award in 2003 and the Spanish National University Studies Award in 2004. She then went on to do postgraduate work at Helsinki University of Technology (Helsinki, Finland) and a master's degree at the Graduate School of Architecture and Preservation at Columbia University (New York, USA). Since 2008 she has been a professor at the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Zaragoza. She completed her doctoral thesis at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 2013, specialising in the historiography of modern Spanish architecture. Since then she has received three research prizes, two national and one international, and has published three books and more than a dozen articles in scientific journals. Currently she is a member of AMIT (Association of Women Researches and Technologists), AECA (Spanish Association of Art Critics), PMAC (Platform of Women in Contemporary Art) and EAHN (European Architectural History Network). Ph.D. Perez-Moreno’s research team is formed of Researchers from eight Spanish universities (CESUGA-A Coruña, University of Alicante, University of Oviedo, University of Alcalá, University of Málaga, University of Sevilla, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Polytechnic University of Madrid) and two European Universities (TU Delf, and Technical University of Munich). In total 24 researchers are involved in this project team. In addition, to date, 3 Master of Architecture students (University of Zaragoza and University of Alicante), 5 Bachelor of Architecture students (University of Zaragoza) and 2 PhD students (University of Zaragoza and University of Oviedo) have collaborated in the project. 
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With over 4400 students, 670 professors, and 140 administration and service staff members, the School of Engineering and Architecture (EINA) is one of the largest institutions in the University of Zaragoza. It offers 9 undergraduate degrees (to start your university training), 11 master degrees (to acquire skills that will allow you to stand out in the labour market), and numerous so-called life-long learning courses. The EINA is one of the top polytechnic Schools in the Spanish ranking for teaching, research and innovation. It is an optimum environment to learn, grow professionally and return to society the priceless effort it makes to promote education, research and innovation. More than 130 years after its early beginnings, and as a result of the individual and collective efforts of the many academics and professionals who ennobled its classrooms, with their work, the EINA has established itself as the core of the Rio Ebro Campus of the University of Zaragoza, a polytechnic institution that makes part of Campus Iberus, the Ebro Valley Campus for International Excellence.
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