Author(s): Elizabeth Cox (Editor)

Architecture | Aotearoa New Zealand Non-Fiction | Women's Histories

Overlooked, underpaid, and often undermined, New Zealand women architects have faced decades of struggle to maintain a position in a male-dominated profession yet their work has been both important and of significance. This groundbreaking new book tells the story of their contribution to the creativity, built environment and community of New Zealand.Written by leading women architects, both in practice and in academia, the book's bold, vivid chapters surface dozens of remarkable women, including many whose careers had until now almost entirely been lost to the historical record. It canvasses the barriers women have faced, and continue to face, and explains the determined strategies many of them have adopted to make their way.Comprehensive, brave and surprising, Making Space is a remarkable contribution to both our architectural and our social history.

Contents: PART ONE: 1840-1945 INTRODUCTION / ELIZABETH COX 'WE MADE THE PLAN OURSELVES': EARLY COLONIAL WOMEN DESIGNING BUILDINGS / CHERIE JACOBSON 'THE TALENT SHE UNDOUBTEDLY POSSESSES': KATE BEATH / ELIZABETH COX VERY DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES: LUCY GREENISH / ELIZABETH COX A 'WORK-ROOM PURE AND SIMPLE': FLORENCE FIELD / ELIZABETH COX 'GIRL AS ARCHITECT': TRAINING TO BE AN ARCHITECT 1920s-1945 / ELIZABETH COX 'THEIR PRESENCE COULD WORK A REVOLUTION': WOMEN IN PRACTICE 1900s-1945 / ELIZABETH COX PART TWO: 1945-2000 'AWFUL TROUBLE': UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCES 1945-1970 / ELIZABETH COX 'SOLID REALITIES': ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE 1945-1970 / ELIZABETH COX CREATIVITY AND DISLOCATION: IRENE KOPPEL, ANNA PLISCHKE AND RENATE PRINCE / LUCY TREEP 'IN THE DEEP END': MARGARET MUNRO / MARY-JANE DUFFY 'NOT AFRAID TO TRY ANYTHING': MONICA BARHAM / MEGAN RULE 'VIGOUR AND ZEST': LILLIAN CHRYSTALL / LYNDA SIMMONS 'A GOOD LIFE': MURIEL LAMB / RICCI HARKER 'I NEVER REALLY HAD TO FIGHT': MARY DE LISLE / ROS EMPSON LONDON CALLING: ALISON SHEPHERD / JULIA GATLEY 'SORRY WHEN THE END OF THE DAY CAME': DRAUGHTSWOMEN / ELIZABETH COX 'MOVERS AND SHAKERS': CAMPAIGNING FOR BETTER ARCHITECTURE 1920s-1950s / ELIZABETH COX TE KARANGA O TE WHAO: THE CALL OF THE CHISEL / TRYPHENA CRACKNELL JOBBING ALONG: THE CURIOUS CASE OF ESTHER JAMES / GILL MATTHEWSON IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE: WOMEN GOVERNMENT ARCHITECTS 1930s-1950s / AMANDA MULLIGAN 'SAILING IN A NEW DIRECTION': NANCY NORTHCROFT / ELIZABETH AITKEN ROSE DOING 'THEIR THING': WOMEN ARCHITECTS AND THEIR OWN HOMES 1940s-1980s / CHERIE JACOBSON 'WE STOOD OUR GROUND': UNIVERSITY IN THE 1970s-1990s / ELIZABETH COX 'THE FACES OF CHANGE': PRACTICE IN THE 1970s-1990s / ELIZABETH COX OTHER WAYS: WOMEN ARCHITECTS AND ACTIVISM IN THE 1980s / GILL MATTHEWSON 'LAYING OUT PEOPLE'S LIVES': PUBLIC SERVICE ARCHITECTURE 1950s-1980s / ELIZABETH COX PAVING THE WAY: MARY BUCKLAND / PAULA WILKINSON PART THREE: 2000-2020 'THE BURDEN OF TRANSLATION': WOMEN AT ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL 2000-2020 / EKTA NATHU NEW MODELS: THE LANDSCAPE OF PRACTICE 2000-2020 / JULIE WILSON COLLECTIVE ACTION: WOMEN ARCHITECTS AND ACTIVISM SINCE THE 1990s / LYNDA SIMMONS EVER TENACIOUS: WAHINE MAORI IN ARCHITECTURE / DEIDRE BROWN DESIGNING PAPAKAINGA: WAHINE MAORI ARCHITECTS / FLEUR PALMER TO BE CONTINUED: PACIFIC WOMEN ARCHITECTS / KARAMIA MUELLER GOING PUBLIC: CIVIC AND SPECIAL PROJECTS / CATHERINE HAMMOND 'THE EXCELLENCE SOMEONE BEFORE YOU HAS CREATED': WOMEN ARCHITECTS IN HERITAGE AND CONSERVATION / CHESSA STEVENS BUILDING BIG: WOMEN ARCHITECTS AND PROJECTS OF SCALE / DIVYA PURUSHOTHAM COLLABORATIVE EFFORT: WOMEN ARCHITECTS IN EDUCATION, HEALTH AND RESEARCH / ELIZABETH COX THE PATH TO GREEN: MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MATTER / MIN HALL FORMING THE FUTURE: WOMEN, ARCHITECTURE AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CHRISTCHURCH / JESSICA HALLIDAY FORCES OF NATURE: WOMEN IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE / LUCY TREEP THE ARCHITECTURE OF COLLECTIVE LIVING / ELIZABETH AITKEN ROSE THE MAJESTIC DOMESTIC: RECENT RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE / NICOLE STOCK ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS: HOME AS AN EVOLVING STORY / MAGGIE HUBERT 'FRIENDS ON THE DOORSTEP': WOMEN ARCHITECTS AND COOPERATIVE HOUSING / ABIGAIL HURST AWAY FROM HOME: NEW ZEALAND WOMEN ARCHITECTS ABROAD / ANN MCEWAN A HOME OF ONE'S OWN: ARCHITECTS' OWN HOMES 1990s-2020s / NATASHA MARKHAM BUILDING THE DOGBOX: A CASE STUDY / SALLY OGLE ENDLESSLY CREATIVE: ACADEMICS AND ARCHITECTURAL WRITERS / ELIZABETH COX EPILOGUE: MULTIPLE WORLDS COEXISTING / ELIZABETH COX SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INDEX

Author Biography: Elizabeth Cox is a Wellington historian who specialises in both architectural and women's history. She works as a Senior Historian at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Her book A Friend Indeed: The Saving of Old St Paul's, about the battle to save Old St Paul's Church in Wellington, was published in 2018. She has two blogs: one about the history of Old St Paul's and one about Wellington's heritage issues. She is also a Trustee of the Futuna Chapel in Wellington.