‘Women’s Work: London’ celebrates architecture and International Women's Day

Action group Part W launches ‘Women's Work: London’, a project celebrating International Women’s Day and key projects by women in our built environment

'Women's Work: London', a printed map celebrating the contributions of women in our built environment, has just launched, 'highlighting significant and groundbreaking buildings in the capital where women have played a key role in their creation'. The project, led by action group Part W, a collective for

around gender equality in the field, was supported by a crowdfunding campaign – and the result has just landed, right in time for International Women's Day. The map addresses the imbalance of gender representation in architecture, as the work of women has 'so often been missed off digital and printed maps, and left out of archives', say its creators, led by Part W founders Yemí Àlàdérun, Zoë Berman and Alice Brownfield.

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