ABSTRACT

The active incorporation of professional women into society is perhaps the most important parameter of modernity in the last century. The female gender is no longer confined to artisanship and domesticity, in short, to the interior world and the world of interiors. The passage of women from being the objects of industry to being actors in industry has been an exponent of modernity. The schools of architecture that we know today were a great innovation at the end of the 18th century. In European history before the 20th century the only example of a woman architect we could find is that of the nun Plautilla Bricci (or Brizio), called Roman Plautilla, working in Rome around 1650. Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal is the only woman mentioned in the history of architecture and design of the 19th century. Another architecture student from the Bauhaus, Friedl Dicker, who followed Johannes Itten's preparatory course in Weimar, died in 1944 in Auschwitz.