ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the history of the past 100 years in the education of women for the practice of architecture and suggests some of the possibilities for the future. It discusses the fact that architecture is more than a visual art; indeed, some of the worst of the “form making” in twentieth-century architecture had denied all human needs and architects of both sexes are rebelling against the arbitrariness of such visual and sculptural acrobatics. The Cambridge School was already pioneering in its integration of the study of architecture and landscape architecture—an important direction that would later be “pioneered” by Harvard in the 1940s. The history of Alpha Alpha Gamma gives further—and sadder—evidence of the profession’s resistance to women. Women students in architecture were numerous enough to form organizations at Washington University and the University of Minnesota as early as 1915.
