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Gae Aulenti, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Phyllis Lambert have rich and accessible archives. But such a situation remains rare in the fields of architecture and urban planning. Archives contribute to the writing of our collective memory which unfortunately remains largely hegemonic and male-centered. How can we address these gaps and work toward recognizing women’s histories as worthy of being archived? As a complement to the Crossed Histories exhibition, Archizoom presents a series of interviews to explore alternative ways of making history.
With contributions from: Stéphanie Dadour (PhD and architectural historian, Paris-Malaquais), Irina Davidovici (architect, director of gta Archives, Zurich), Laura Hindelang (Assistant Professor, Institute of Art History, University of Bern), Léa-Catherine Szacka (architect, associate professor at the University of Manchester and director of the Manchester Architecture Research Group, MARG) and Apolline Vranken (architect and FNRS doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta ULB, Belgium).
Apolline Vranken
Apolline Vranken has been involved with the Cercle Féministe de l’ULB since 2015 and is passionate about questions of gender relations in space and urban equality. She investigates these themes in her final thesis Des béguinages à l’architecture féministe (Université des Femmes, 2018). After graduating in architecture in 2017, she worked for over two years as a project manager for the non-profit organization L’Ilot-Sortir du sans-abrisme and as an architect. Today, she is a doctoral researcher in the Hortence laboratory at the La Cambre-Horta ULB Faculty of Architecture. She founded the platform L’architecture qui dégenre in 2018 and organizes many events, including the Belgian edition of the Matrimony Days (Journées du Matrimoine).
Stéphanie Dadour
Stéphanie Dadour is associate professor at Ensa Paris-Malaquais and co-founder of the Dadour de Pous Architecture office. Her teaching, research, and projects focus on expressions of power and asymmetrical relationships in archtiecture and planning practices. Among her publications are Des voix s’élèvent. Féminismes et Architecture, The Housing Project. Discourses, ideals, models and politics in 20th c. exhibitions (with G. Caramellino) and 1989, hors-champ de l’architecture officielle: Liban.
Irina Davidocici
Irina Davidovici is an architect, historian, and the director of the gta Archive at ETH Zurich. Davidovici obtained her doctorate at the University of Cambridge in 2008 and Habilitation at ETH Zurich in 2020. The author of Forms of Practice. German-Swiss Architecture 1980–2000 (2012 and 2018) and The Autonomy of Theory: Ticino Architecture and Its Critical Reception (2024), Davidovici edited Colquhounery. Alan Colquhoun from Bricolage to Myth (AA, 2015) and co-edited thematic issues for Architectural Theory Review and OASE. Her latest book Common Grounds: A Comparative History of Early Housing Estates in Europe will be published with Triest Verlag in 2027.
Laura Hindelang
Laura Hindelang is Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Monument Preservation at the University of Bern, Institute of Art History. Her current research focuses on women in architecture before 1900 in Switzerland, Europe, and the Ottoman Empire. She works at the intersection of feminist historiography, archival research, and sociology of architecture. Her previous research investigated questions of materiality, architectural stained and flat glass, as well as the architectural histories of the Arab World, the impact of the petroleum industrialization on visual culture and the built environment.
Léa-Catherine Szacka
Léa-Catherine Szacka is associate professor in architectural studies at the University of Manchester and director of the Manchester Architecture Research Group. She has also been a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including Harvard GSD, The Berlage, ETH, and EPFL. Since 2024, she has served as vice president of the European Architectural History Network. Szacka is the author of Exhibiting the Postmodern: The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale (2016) and of Biennials/Triennials: Conversations on the Geography of Itinerant Display (2019). She is also co-author of Le Concert: Pink Floyd à Venise (2017) and Paolo Portoghesi: Architecture Between History, Politics and Media (2023), as well as co-editor of Mediated Messages (2018). In 2022, she co-curated the 10th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.