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A ground-breaking visual survey of architecture designed by women from the early twentieth century to the present day

´Would you still call me a diva if I were a man?´

asked Zaha Hadid, challenging as she did so,

more than 100 years of stereotypes about

female architects. A century in which women

were refused entry to architecture schools, were

denied degrees when they had completed

courses, a century in which even now, women

occupy just ten per cent of the highest-ranking

jobs in architecture firms. In contrast, Breaking

Ground is a pioneering, even essential,

celebration of incredible architecture designed

by women. Featuring more than 150 architects

and buildings, and spanning the last 100

years, Breaking Ground is both a glorious

visual manifesto and a timely record of the

extraordinary contribution female architects

have made to the profession.

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Hall, Jane
Jane Hall is the inaugural recipient of the British
Council Lina Bo Bardi Fellowship (2013) and a
founding member of Assemble, the London-based,
Turner Prize-winning collective.

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