{"title":"Shifting Focus from Architecture to Heritage: Stories of Three Australian Women Architects","authors":"Cyndelle Kwabi","doi":"10.55939/a5029p4fpn","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the stories (oral histories) of three Queensland women architects: Fiona Gardiner, Helen Wilson and Ruth Woods. Studying architecture in the 1970s and working in architecture from 1980 to the present, each story reveals new insights into the experiences of women architects in Queensland at a time when women were achieving parity in architectural education and greater representation within the profession. A focus of the paper will be the move made by each to the new and emerging discipline of heritage and conservation in Queensland in the 1980 and 1990s. Revealing new histories of the heritage movement in Queensland, it will be argued that the value of their stories also lies in the “benefits” they felt heritage work offered women architects practising in Queensland. These include the chance to establish sole practices (together with the flexibility this offered) and the opportunity to escape the traditional hierarchies of mainstream (private) practice.","PeriodicalId":445270,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.55939/a5029p4fpn","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper considers the stories (oral histories) of three Queensland women architects: Fiona Gardiner, Helen Wilson and Ruth Woods. Studying architecture in the 1970s and working in architecture from 1980 to the present, each story reveals new insights into the experiences of women architects in Queensland at a time when women were achieving parity in architectural education and greater representation within the profession. A focus of the paper will be the move made by each to the new and emerging discipline of heritage and conservation in Queensland in the 1980 and 1990s. Revealing new histories of the heritage movement in Queensland, it will be argued that the value of their stories also lies in the “benefits” they felt heritage work offered women architects practising in Queensland. These include the chance to establish sole practices (together with the flexibility this offered) and the opportunity to escape the traditional hierarchies of mainstream (private) practice.
本文考虑了三位昆士兰女建筑师的故事(口述历史):Fiona Gardiner, Helen Wilson和Ruth Woods。在20世纪70年代学习建筑,从1980年到现在从事建筑工作,每个故事都揭示了昆士兰女性建筑师的经历,当时女性在建筑教育和职业中获得了更多的代表。论文的一个重点将是每个人在20世纪80年代和90年代在昆士兰州对新兴的遗产和保护学科所做的举动。揭示昆士兰州遗产运动的新历史,他们的故事的价值也在于他们认为遗产工作为在昆士兰州执业的女性建筑师提供了“好处”。这些包括建立单独实践的机会(以及由此提供的灵活性)和逃避主流(私人)实践的传统等级制度的机会。