ABSTRACT
Twenty-five years ago, feminist architectural historians first started to examine the role played by women in the making of the built environment.1 As is characteristic of the first phase of the feminist re-working of any branch of history, attention focused initially on the reclamation of formerly prominent but now obscured women. It quickly became apparent, however, that unlike the field of fine art and, to a lesser extent, design, there were comparatively few ‘great women architects’.2
