Here are the women who have and continue to shape our built environment, their professions, and their industries In celebration of International Women?s Day, we?ve rounded up a collection of some of Curbed?s favorite pieces about trailblazing women in the fields of architecture, design, urbanism, and beyond. With women?s rights and the #MeToo movement dominating the global conversation, promoting the work, vision, and voices of women is more important than ever.
Below, find 10 stories covering larger-than-life figures like Julia Morgan, multi-hyphenate Ray Eames, and Zaha Hadid, as well as lesser-known groundbreakers like landscape architects Cornelia Oberlander and Harriet Pattison, and pioneering women of color like Norma Sklarek and Beverly Loraine Greene. How Julia Morgan gave California women space for leisure

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In 1934, Morgan would tell a correspondent, ?I have 22 pools now in operation and have come to some quite definite conclusions.? Among those conclusions, McNeill says, is that the pools and recreational spaces were among the most important aspects of the YWCAs. The women ?wanted to be free. And the clothes they had to wear?think about how freeing a pool would be even in those heavy, hot bathing costumes.
11 pioneering architects of color who made their mark: Norma Sklarek (1926?2012)

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Called the ?Rosa Parks of architecture,? Sklarek was raised by Trinidadian parents in Crown H...