ABSTRACT
This fascinating book addresses a subject that has too often been neglected in history of 20th-century architecture: the significant role of women in Eastern European architecture from the Second World War to the collapse of the Iron Curtain. Although a few women architects working before the Second World War, such as Polish architects Helena Syrkus and Barbara Brukalska and the German designer Marlene Moeschke-Poelzig, have received public recognition beyond their national boundaries, almost none of the architects discussed in this anthology, such as Iris Dullin-Grund (East Germany), Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak (Poland), Viera Mecková (Czechoslovakia), Mimoza Nestorova-Tomić (Yugoslavia), Valve Pormeister (Estonia), and Johanna Wolf (Hungary), are included in books about 20th-century architecture, not even in recently published surveys explicitly dedicated to providing a global perspective.
