Architecture becomes a female profession. For most of the desks of the architectural schools, the girls' talents sat down, and the professorial corps was headed more and more often by experienced ladies with excellent rhetoric.
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Spanish-American-American Eva Franch And Gilbert (b. 1978), curator of the New York gallery Storefront for Art and Architecture, a lecturer and author of an architectural magazine, became the director of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. This is perhaps one of the most exaggerated and momentous decisions of recent years.
AA School is the most prestigious architectural university in the world. Opened in 1847 in London, among its famous graduates - Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Richard Rogers.
Eva was chosen from three finalists: she received 67% of 1077 votes, compared with 16% for both her competitors: Pippo Chiorra, chief curator of the MAXXI museum in Rome and Robert Malla, head of the School of Architecture and Design at Brighton University.
Eva Franch and Gilbert are considered to be an inexhaustible source of energy and a strong voice in the arch community with an emphasis on social, political and economic ties. “AA,” says Franch, “has an unsurpassed combination of rigor and madness that must be cultivated in order to continue to experience the limits of the possible and the impossible.”
