Good News: Women in Architecture

Book Review| June 01 2024 Good News: Women in Architecture Good News: Women in Architecture. MAXXI, Rome, 16 December 2021–23 October 2022 Claudia Mattogno Claudia Mattogno Sapienza Rome University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (2): 258–260. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2024.83.2.258 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Good News: Women in Architecture. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2024; 83 (2): 258–260. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2024.83.2.258 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search From late December 2021 through late October 2022, the iconic MAXXI (Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo) in Rome, designed by Zaha Hadid, hosted a major exhibition with a somewhat cryptic title: Good News. The good news was that the Italian public had finally discovered a large female presence in the field of architecture, as the explanatory subtitle of the exhibition, Women in Architecture, made clear. However, such "good news" was not a surprising revelation, nor was it new. Nonetheless, it was significant that for the first time an influential Italian national museum was dedicating a major exhibition to the work of women architects. The discovery of so many women in the field seems to have taken the Italian cultural scene—not only the public but also critics and the exhibition curators—by surprise. Drawing principally from MAXXI's collection, the exhibition was, above all, an architecture show. The MAXXI... You do not currently have access to this content.