Gill Matthewson: From Archi Parlour

Gill Matthewson's paper 'Take it to the Limit: women as architectural breach' has been published on the Parlour Website, April 23rd 2012.

"Architecture practice still seems to be a mode of operating that resists women. A generation after Gill Matthewson and others first asked, “where are all the women?” she is still, with some frustration, asking the same question. This raises a series of further questions. Why does the architecture profession fail a significant proportion of women? Why are the margins more hospitable? Why is the profession, as defined by registration, so decidedly off-limits to alternative practice?

These questions are addressed in Gill’s paper, which focuses on the situation in New Zealand, for Limits, the 2004 conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand."