ABSTRACT
Iris Dullin-Grund is a successful architect and a remarkable personality. Her accomplishments, including the design and realization of the House of Culture and Education (1965), a notable example of early functionalist architecture in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), her membership in the Board of Directors of the elite Academy of Architecture, and her teaching at the Technical University in Dresden, 1 predestined her to become the icon of East German women’s emancipation. It is perhaps not surprising that Iris Dullin-Grund also attracted the scrutiny of the media in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). Although the West Germans regarded her with fascination, her professional prominence was at odds with their more traditionally focused gender ideals, which located women firmly in the home.
