Modern Women in (Modern) Architecture

The presence and influence of women as architects and designers, is not yet enough explored as a social change. From the XVII-XVIII Centuries, with the excellence of women as Lady Elisabeth Wilbraham, Katherine Briçonnet, Plautilla Bricci, and few others, we’ve to arrive at the end of XIX Century and the beginning of the XX Century to find out very strong and innovative female influence in architecture, design and urban planning proj- ects. It’s interesting that most of the known woman architects was born between 1890 and 1910, and in Europe and in Americas we can find out some very interesting figures that worked in an independent way or as wife of. What did drive these women to choose this profession and what they have had in common, which aims and which idea of the new era? The Italian scenario of that historical period may reveal, in a short, how women, who have had a profound impact on Modernist history even while working on the pe- riphery of the profession, changed the idea of living, working, learning, have fun, even if sometimes their works stay under the “tradition of misattribution”.