This project has been possible by the support of Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies. Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.
We are constantly looking for more support and endorsement from different organisations and individuals to continue building this archive. In the next phase of this project, we aim to speak with more diverse women practitioners across geographical contexts as well as different forms of practice.
Some women practitioners have also expressed interest in archiving their works, and we would like to help digitise and catalogue them to be made available for further research and scholarship. All of these different efforts to record and represent the histories of women practitioners in architecture, design, and the built environment have culminated in newer collaborations for exhibitions and curated publications.
To support in any way possible, pledge your funds here:
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Anonymous contribution in memory of Michael Radow (1944- 2023), librarian and archivist, MLS 1972, Columbia University.
Architect Tanu Sankalia, Department of Art + Architecture, University of San Francisco
Interior Designer Juhi Santani, Retale Strategy Consultant, Bengaluru
In 2023, Curating for Culture collaborated with Arthshila Foundation to launch the archive and curate an exhibition at Arthshila Ahmedabad, Vandalising the Indian Atelier: In Search of Stories of Women Practitioners. To know more, click here:
Since 2022, Ishita has been contributing to the work of building the Feminist Spatial Practices project (and collective) initiated by Bryony Roberts and Abri Aiken. WoV Archive is now a part of their digital archive, and Ishita has continued to be an active community member since 2024.
In 2026, the FSP International Solidarity Program will be hosted in Bangalore as part of the travelling exhibition event on Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture. Curating for Culture is hosting this program in collaboration with the VIT Architecture department and PATIO Network.
Since the start of 2026, WoV Archive has also initiated a collaboration with the India Foundation for the Arts to extend the archival work through creative and scholarly forms of inquiry.
Along with providing financial support, we also invite contributions to strengthen this archive-building exercise and add to the diversity of perspectives. If you have conducted interviews or oral history recordings of women practitioners from the fields of and related to architecture and the built environment and would like them to be added to the archive, please email us at: info@curatingforculture.com
We will connect and work with you to discuss the legal processes before collecting and mapping the contribution into the archive. New contributions will be added to the archive with due credits and acknowledgements.
