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

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