Womxn in Design and Architecture (WDA)
Womxn in Design and Architecture (WDA)
"Womxn in Design and Architecture (WDA) is a graduate student group formed at Princeton University School of Architecture (SoA) in 2014 to highlight womxn through an intersectional platform for architectural discourse. Bringing attention to issues of equity–including gender, class, and race disparities–WDA encourages new standards of recognition and representation within both academic and professional settings. Beginning in 2017, the annual conference organized by WDA and the School of Architecture celebrates the underexplored histories of womxn practitioners. Previous conference figures include Svetlana Kana Radevic, June Jordan, Minnette De Silva, Anne Tyng, Norma Merrick Sklarek, Lina Bo Bardi, and Zaha Hadid. In the Spring of 2022, the School of Architecture published the inaugural volume in the WDA Series, Lina Bo Bardi: Material Ideologies, featuring scholarship from the namesake 2018 WDA conference along with new contributions from historians and artists."