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News The Almighty S promotes women in architecture Taylor Carroll Staff Reporter The Women in Architecture Collection showcase was held on Tuesday to promote females in the field. Sara Mautino is the current visiting assistant professor and manages the Cunningham architecture library. She helped plan and execute the Women in Architecture Collection Showcase to show the success of female architects and inspire more women to join or continue in it. “Only 22% of licensed architects in the US are women and 45% of the students in architecture school are women,” Mautino said. “So, there’s a huge drop. And we’re just trying to find ways to make women more visible in the profession.” Mautino said the profession is a male dominated and needs to improve. She said the AIA, American Institute of Architects, have released a report on the biases in the profession. It talks about people of color, members of the LGBTQ community and women and their experience of discrimination in architecture. It also discusses ways to improve bias. The Women in Architecture Collection showcase had many books on display written by the female authors like Leslie Kern along with past female architecture students’ designs. The event had snacks and activities to encourage people to come. One of the activities was writing a trait of female architects down on a paper puzzle piece and sticking it to a board. When all pieces
Taylor Carroll The Women in Architecture Collection promotes female architects.
were placed on the board, it replicated Zaha Hadid’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza in South Korea. Many of the female students, including Ryan Thompson, look up to Hadid as a great inspiration for female representation in architecture. Thompson is a thirdyear architecture student and part of The Almighty S, who helped put the event together. The Almighty S is a women design club that helps empower women in architecture,
graphic design and interior design. This event is part of a design week that every architecture club is participating in to come together and benefit the design school. “I think it’s important because I feel like they [women] are not recognized enough,” Thompson said. “And in my opinion, I think women have a lot to bring at the table, especially in design fields.” Olivia Bailey is a thirdyear architecture student and
member of The Almighty S who helped put the event together. She said that it’s important for female students to see women being successful in architecture. She also said there are barriers, but the event shows that they can overcome them. “It’s really important to kind of see the female architects that we have here and support for them,” Bailey said. Rylan Flecker is another third-year student who is a
part of The Almighty S that put the event together. She said it was a good turn out for the event because past graduating class members came along with other female students and families. “Especially the younger years, it’s important to show the support of the women [in architecture],” Flecker said. “It’s always fun to see representation.” news.ed@ocolly.com
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