Despina Stratigakos

Despina Stratigakos (born 1963)[1] is a Canadian-born architectural historian, writer, and professor in the School of Architecture and Planning of the University of Buffalo.[2]

Education

Stratigakos was born in Montreal, Quebec, and received her undergraduate education from the University of Toronto and her Master of Arts from the University of California Berkeley. She earned her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. She taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo.

Academic career


Stratigakos has served as a Director of the Society of Architectural Historians, an Advisor of the International Archive of Women in Architecture at Virginia Tech, a Trustee of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, and Deputy Director of the Gender Institute at the University at Buffalo.[3][4][5] She also participated on Buffalo’s municipal Diversity in Architecture task force and was a founding member of the Architecture and Design Academy, an initiative of the Buffalo Public Schools to encourage design literacy and academic excellence. In 2016-17, Stratigakos was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.[6]

Publications

Stratigakos' books explore the intersections of power and architecture. Where Are the Women Architects? (2016)[7][8][9] confronts the challenges women face in the architectural profession. Hitler at Home (2015) [10][11][12][13] investigates the architectural and ideological construction of the Führer’s domesticity. A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City (2008) traces the history of a forgotten female metropolis.[14][15] This book won the German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize[16] and the Milka Bliznakov Research Prize.[17]

She has published on issues of diversity in architecture.[18][19][20] Her 2013 Places Journal article, "Unforgetting Women Architects," on the neglect of women architects in history books and the need to include them in Wikipedia inspired the emergence of Wikipedia edit-a-thons focused on women in design.[21] Stratigakos has also written about the lack of diversity in representations of architects in Hollywood films as well as among architecture’s elite prize winners.[22][23] In 2007 she curated an exhibition on Architect Barbie at the University of Michigan to focus attention on gendered stereotypes within the architectural profession.[24] In 2011, she collaborated with Mattel on the development and launch of Architect Barbie in the Barbie I Can Be series.[25]

Honors and awards
  • Member, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton[26]
  • Marie Curie Fellowship[27]
  • Rice University, Humanities Research Center Visiting Scholar[28]
  • Walter B. Sanders Fellow, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan[29]

References
  1. "Despina Stratigakos". USA Profile Pages. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  2. "Despina Stratigakos - UB - University at Buffalo". ap.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  3. "Despina Stratigakos on Women in Architecture | Abitare". Abitare. 2013-06-03. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  4. "Despina Stratigakos is New Deputy Director of the UB Gender Institute - University at Buffalo". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  5. "About BWAF - Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation". Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  6. "Current Members and Visitors | School of Historical Studies". www.hs.ias.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  7. "Stratigakos, D.: Where Are the Women Architects? (eBook and Paperback)". press.princeton.edu. ISBN 9780691170138. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  8. Tavris, Carol (2016-04-29). "Breaking Out of the Box". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  9. "Book Review: Where Are the Women Architects? - Spacing National". Spacing National. 2017-01-24. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  10. "Hitler at Home | Yale University Press". yalebooks.com. ISBN 9780300183818. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  11. "The Role of Décor in Hitler's Life". The New York Times. 2015-08-27. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  12. "Hitler at Home by Despina Stratigakos". Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  13. Filler, Martin. "Hanging Out with Hitler". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  14. "A Women's Berlin". University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-5323-2. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  15. "A Women's Berlin: Building the Modern City". Times Higher Education (THE). 2009-07-02. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  16. "Despina Stratigakos' "A Woman's Berlin" Wins 2009 German Academic Book Award". ap.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  17. "A Guide to the Milka Bliznakov Prize Records, 1999-2012Milka Bliznakov Prize Records, Ms2001-045". ead.lib.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  18. "Architecture's New Feminist Activism Tackles the Profession's Gender-Bias". Metropolis. 2016-03-15. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  19. "Women architects: Building change". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  20. "Why is the world of architecture so male-dominated?". Los Angeles Times. 2016-04-21. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  21. Stratigakos, Despina (2016-04-12). "Unforgetting Women Architects: From the Pritzker to Wikipedia". Places Journal (2013). doi:10.22269/130603.
  22. Stratigakos, Despina (2016-09-06). "Hollywood Architects". Places Journal (2016). doi:10.22269/160906.
  23. "Architecture Has a Woman Problem. Zaha Hadid Knew It Well". Slate. 2016-04-11. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  24. "Architect Barbie's Political Underpinnings". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2011-10-09. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  25. Stratigakos, Despina (2011-06-13). "What I Learned from Architect Barbie". Places Journal (2011). doi:10.22269/110613.
  26. "Current Members and Visitors | School of Historical Studies". www.hs.ias.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  27. "'Hitler at Home' -- A Study in the Politics of Domestic Aesthetics - University at Buffalo". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  28. "Visiting Faculty | Humanities Research Center". hrc.rice.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  29. "Former Fellows | Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning". taubmancollege.umich.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
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