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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.
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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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.
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…
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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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…
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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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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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