A Global Survey of Women in Architecture Rethinks How We Attribute Buildings

Jane Hall’s book Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women, London, Phaidon, 2019; 224 pages, 190 illustrations, $49.95 hardcover.
From modernism’s chain of stylistic ruptures to recent discontinuities caused by so-called smart city design, architecture’s history has long been predicated on schisms and fractures, often created for disruption’s sake. Today, however, a new wave of  feminists is producing a welcome correction to masculinist values in architecture. In