”This exhibition and its 'Drafting Room' installation were designed to make visible the many women architects whose very existence had been hidden, ignored or denied by the male establishment. Rejecting the typical focus on the very few 'exceptional women' who had been (albeit reluctantly) accepted by that establishment, the installation intended to present a complex, nuanced view of the ideologies that have bound women spatially to the house and socially to nearly invisible professional careers, and also to demonstrate the efforts made by some women to externalize their presence through Women’s Buildings at the end of the 19th Century in Chicago and the time of the exhibition in Los Angeles.”