Arab Women in Architecture

Whether i agree with this video on Arab Female Architects or not it's a good share, Enjoy =)

Published on Feb 23, 2014

"Arab Women in Architecture" is a documentary that has been produced as part of the activities of the 2013 sixth cycle of the Omrania | CSBE Student Award for Excellence in Architectural Design. It features stories on the experiences, challenges, and achievements of Arab women architects.

The full film was screened for the first time during the Award's sixth cycle ceremony, which took place on January 7, 2014 at the German Jordanian University's Othman Bdeir House for Architecture and Design in Amman, Jordan.

Additional information regarding the Award and the films produced through it is available at:

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www.twitter.com/CSBE_Jordan
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For inquiries, please contact us at 0096264615297 or send an email to info@omraniacsbeaward.org

Cathleen McGuigan (at) GSD

"Women and the Changing World of Architecture" Cathleen McGuigan LF'93
Cathleen McGuigan is editor-in-chief of Architectural Record, the nation's leading architecture publication for more than a century. McGuigan, who is the second woman to serve as editor in chief, was named to the post in 2011. Under her leadership, Record won the 2012 Grand Neal award, the top American Business Media award for overall excellence, as well as being named to the Media Power 50 list in B to B Magazine. She also serves as editorial director of GreenSource, an award-winning sustainable design magazine launched in 2006, and SNAP, a products publication that debuted in 2009.McGuigan, a former Newsweek architecture critic and arts editor, has more than three decades of cultural journalism experience. A Michigan native, she holds a BA degree in English, with a minor in art history, from Brown University. In 1992-93, she was a Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard.
Besides her career at Newsweek, where she was on staff from 1977 to 2008, McGuigan has worked as a consultant for various clients, including the Syracuse University School of Architecture. She served as an executive editor of HQ: Good Design Is Good Business, a McGraw-Hill pilot project. Her freelance articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, and Harper's Bazaar, among other periodicals. McGuigan has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and has been a Poynter Fellow at Yale. Currently conducting research for a biography of the critic Aline Saarinen, she also serves on various design juries and sits on the board of trustees of the Skyscraper Museum in New York.

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Diller (at) GSD

Diller (at) GSD
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