Have We Ever Been Equal? Women’s Interactions in the Landscape Architecture of Socialist Modernism

Abstract

This chapter aims to explore women’s contributions to landscape architecture and urban design from the 1950s to the 1980s in socialist Yugoslavia. As feminist and postfeminist interventions in theoretical perspectives have shown, the historiography of women in modern architecture is a culturally and ideologically constructed narrative. By addressing the questions emerging from gender roles in architecture culture of societal modernisation under socialism, the chapter spotlights the case studies illustrating prominent roles women have played in landscape architecture, from practising architects to activists, critics, and curators. Challenging linear historiographical narratives, the questions emerging from gender open a new perspective for more inclusive architectural history.