Despina Stratigakos

Despina Stratigakos is an internationally recognized historian and professor in the architecture department at the University at Buffalo.

She has published extensively on the history of women in architecture, including her award-winning book, A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City, the story of a forgotten metropolis designed by and for women. She is on the board of directors of the Society of Architectural Historians, and was formerly an advisor of the International Archive of Women in Architecture at Virginia Tech; she was a founding member of the Architecture and Design Academy, an initiative of the Buffalo Public Schools created to increase diversity in architecture. She received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College and has taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the faculty at Buffalo.

Contact Information:
dms58 [at] buffalo.edu
www.ap.buffalo.edu/architecture/people/stratigakos.asp

Posts by Despina Stratigakos

PLACES: Why Architects Need Feminism (09.12.12)
PLACES: What I Learned from Architect Barbie (06.13.11)

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