IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features ArchDaily on ‘Women Architects in Post-Colonial South Asia’.
Ankitha Gattupalli writes in ArchDaily:
In the mid-twentieth century, a set of South Asian countries collectively experienced a catharsis from colonizers’ rule. The period that followed sparked an era of ideas and philosophies for a new future. During this time, architects were pivotal in creating modernist structures that defined the countries’ post-colonial, post-partition and post-imperial identities…..
With this success in nation-building, there has been a lack of accreditation for women architects in shaping South Asian histories….
Looking back in time, one notices a sort of erasure of contribution from women architects to their country’s architectural history. Most of the archives and documentation of modernist South Asian architecture boast of work by male architects….
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