Ideological Equals: Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989

Mary Pepchinski is an architect and a professor of architectural design at the University of Applied Science, Dresden. She has taught at the Technical Universities of Berlin, Dresden, and Graz, where she was the Aigner-Rollet Guest Professor for Gender Studies and Women's Reseach in 2002. Mariann Simon is an architect and professor. After eight years in practice she turned to teaching and research work focusing on 20th century and contemporary architecture and theory at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Since 2014 she has been a professor at the Department for Urban Planning and Design, Szent Istvan University, Budapest.

List of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1: Case Studies 1. Between State Socialist Emancipation and Professional Desire Harald Engler 2. Female Students of Joze Plecnik between Tradition and Modernism Tina Potocnik 3. At the Forefront of Socialist Development Peter Haba 4. Emancipated but Still Accompanied Henrieta Moravcikova 5. Spousal Collaboration as a Professional Strategy for Women Architects in the Polish People's Republic Piotr Marciniak 6. The Drawing Board au feminin Ana Maria Zahariade 7. Women Architects of Soviet Estonia Ingrid Ruudi Part 2: Individuals in Context 8. Gender and Return Migration Mary Pepchinski 9. Performing Equality Mirjana Lozanovska 10. The (in)Famous Anca Petrescu Dana Vais Part 3: Exchange and Publicity 11. Hungarian Women Architects in the UIFA Mariann Simon 12. The Architect Iris Dullin-Grund in the Films of Divided Germany Petra Lohmann Afterword. Index