Published Works of Despina Stratigakos
1999-2002

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BIOGRAPHY

Despina Stratigakos completed her doctoral thesis in the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College.She specializes in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century European art and architecture, women architects and designers in Europe and the United States, and the theories of gender and design.Stratigakos' dissertation entitled, "Skirts and Scaffolding: Women architects, gender and Design in Wilhelmine Germany" explores the advancement of women into architecture from approximately 1900-1920.

Stratigakos is currently and assistant Professor at Illinois State University, School of Art.Previously she has held positions at Grinnell College, the University of Iowa and at the Visual Arts Center in Montreal.

See also IAWA Biographical Database

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The Despina Stratigakos collection is comprised of her vita and published works including her dissertation and articles exploring the public image of women architects in Wilhelm, Germany (early 20th century), the contributions of women in re-building of Berlin, Germany, and exiled Jewish women architects in America.

CONTAINER LIST

ARTICLES

• "Architecture in Skirts: The Public Image of Women Architects in Wilhelmine Germany"(2000, 2001)
• "Reconstructing a Lost History:Exiled Jewish Women Architects in America" in Aufbau (The Transatlantic Jewish Paper) Vol. LXVIII, No. 22. October 31, 2002, p. 14

BOOKS

• ed. Amy L. Bingaham, Lise Shapiro Sanders, and Rebecca Zorach.(2001).A Women's Berlin: How Female Patrons and Architects in Imperial Germany Re-Gendered the City.Embodied Utopias: gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis. Routledge, London and New York,

DISSERTATION

• Skirts and Scaffolding: Women Architects, Gender, and Design in Wilhelmine Germany Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College, October 1999

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