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Architects, Designers, Visionaries: Women's History Month at Oro Editions

Architects, Designers, Visionaries: Women's History Month at Oro Editions

Architects, Designers, Visionaries: Women's History Month at Oro Editions

Architects, Designers, Visionaries: Women's History Month at Oro Editions

Architects, Designers, Visionaries: Women's History Month at Oro Editions

Women have long been at the forefront of architectural and design innovation, yet their stories are often underrepresented. This Women's History Month, Oro Editions is committed to amplifying their voices and celebrating their extraordinary achievements. We've gathered a collection of books by female authors who inspire, challenge, and empower us to think differently about the spaces we inhabit. Discover their insights and join us in recognizing the vital role women play in shaping our world.

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Greatness

Pascale Sablan

GREATNESS: Diverse Designers of Architecture is a compelling exploration of the contributions of diverse architects to the field of architecture. This book delves into the essence of various architectural typologies, including residential, institutional, and master planning, through the lens of designers from varied backgrounds.

 

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Designing-Women’s Lives

Toby Israel

Designing-Women’s Lives calls for a place-making revolution based on women’s culturally nurtured “feeling” sensibility. Women too often have had to repress that sensibility in order to become designers. Now, rather than struggle to fit-in, women can break new ground by using Design Psychology as the foundation for creating emotionally satisfying place.

 

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Adèle Naudé

Adèle Naudé

‘Adèle Naudé: A Form of Practice’ celebrates the architect’s forty years of practice and teaching. In notable academic leadership positions, Naudé taught across many locations globally, and her practice followed to new locations around the world…


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Houses That Sugar Built

Gina Consing McAdam and Siobhan Doran

‘Houses that Sugar Built – An Intimate Portrait of Philippine Ancestral Homes’ explores the largely unknown architectural legacy to be found in the ancestral houses of Iloilo, Negros Occidental and Pampanga – the three main sugar-producing provinces of the Philippines…


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Street Beauty

Hannah Judah

Street Beauty is a high visual impact one-of-a-kind street art photography book by renowned international street art photographer Hannah Judah…
 

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Seeing it all

Rhonda Rubinstein

Eleven visionary photographers—who happen to be women—focus upon moments of profound beauty and peril on our planet…


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A Cursed Life

Gabriella Guidi

Alida is from the mountains of northern Albania, where she grows up with her family: her father, her mother, and two twin sisters. The book is set in the historical period of Enver Oxa, but in the northern countryside of Albania people are raised and live according to the rules of Lek Dukagjin’s Kanun.


 

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City Making 101

Alexis Sanal

‘City Making 101’ is a card game and reference resource for designers and “citizen designers” to imagine, discuss and share ways to realize livable, lovable and walkable cities. The game approach offers each player a dynamic pathway into the complexity of city making…

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The Life and Times of Forever

Patricia Z. Smith

The Life and Times of Forever’s captivating collection of photo collages transcends the still life, weaving lush close-ups of flowers, fruits, vegetables, and sculpture with fragments of poetry.


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Silver

Genevieve de Manio

For more than 25 years, Genevieve has worked in the world’s finest venues, photographing events in Boston, New York, the Southeastern United States and Europe.


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Periurban Cartographies

Dr Victoria Jane Marshall

‘Periurban Cartographies’ looks through the prism of the “almost urban” to consider what a “city” is or could be. In doing so, the book challenges assumptions and reconsiders design practices…



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Modern Chinese Architecture

Nancy S. Steinhardt

Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years tells the dramatic story of the transformation of Chinese architecture from a predominantly modular, timber-frame, single-story building system with ceramic tile roofs of anonymous, local craftsmen to skyscrapers designed by internationally acclaimed architects…



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Reimagined Worlds

Margaret Chandra Kerrison

In ‘Reimagined Worlds: Narrative Placemaking for People, Play, and Purpose,’ Margaret Chandra Kerrison presents an indispensable manifesto, compelling designers of environments and experiences to embrace a people-centered approach fueled by intentional narratives…



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Masters of Shape

Maria Ausherman

With ‘Masters of Shape: The Lives and Art of American Women Sculptors,’ Ausherman continues her exploration of women artists who overcame obstacles of gender and race. These sculptors created spectacular masterpieces that hold inspirational truths about equality and justice…

 

 

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Behind the Camera

Maria Ausherman

Each of the women in this series stepped out of the bounds of physical and social expectations to pursue her personal vision through photography.  Some were fortunate to have come from wealthy families who fostered their interests.  Others had to make their way by supporting themselves, or they found encouragement from other, more established photographers.

 

 

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