Women – what’s up now? Architecture is Barbie’s profession for 2011. AIA San Francisco and Mattel partnered on an architect Barbie Doll as well as a Barbie Doll dream house competition.
Representing different paths in the design profession, architects Cathy Simon, FAIA (Perkins + Will), Ila Berman (California College of the Arts), EB Min (Min|Day) and Anne M. Torney (Daniel Solomon Design Partners) will discuss their careers and share their perspectives on women in the profession. More information on the event after the break.
The group will explore the following topics:
- What is the current state of women’s participation in the profession?
- How does “Architect Barbie” influence roles, including stereotypes for women in the profession?
- What does it take to become successful in architecture?
- How can women shape the future of the profession?
The seminar format will include audience participation, allowing the architects, designers, and marketing professionals to be fully engaged in the conversation. Designer Jessica Lane, founder and editor in chief of Calx, a design magazine and author of the blog post, “The Audacity of Architect Barbie,” will moderate the presentation. For more information on the event, visit here.
Make it stop.
This is offensive to women.
If you want to talk about women’s issues in architecture, don’t preface it with Barbie, that’s just demeaning.
And for God’s sake take that moronic drawing tube off her shoulder and send it back to 1980 where it belongs.
1980′s? Really?
It’s much harder and more moronic to attempt to signify DRAWINGS, a staple of the architecture profession, through showing Barbie with a laptop with some industry crippling BIM system on it than with a drawing tube. A well rendered pencil and ink drawing speaks so much more to the time, patience, and skill that go into creating and manifesting an idea as structure.