A new focus on feminist architecture research

Molle og Per Cappelen: Extention to their own house in Vennersborgveien 17, Oslo. Kitchen, signed Molle Cappelen, 1952.
Photo: Nasjonalmuseet / Andreas Harvik
Women in Norwegian architectural history
Digitisation reveals new sources
Why are there so few traces of women in the archives?

Architecture student Ingeborg Flak Tønnesen at NTH, 1929.
Photo: Ukjent

Ingrid Aas: Furniture for fru Sofie Holter-Sørensen, 1917. Aas was employed at Arnstein Arnebergs arkitektkontor. Signed I. Aas.
Photo: Nasjonalmuseet / Andreas Harvik
Practices that make women invisible
Collections, “critical cataloguing” and statistics
Conclusion

Minna Heiberg: Model of Observatoriet terrasse, Oslo, 1932, made for Arkitektkontoret Blakstad og Munthe-Kaas.
Photo: Nasjonalmuseet / Anne Hansteen Jarre