The Lilly Reich Grants for Equality in Architecture
Barcelona March, 8, 2023
To celebrate International Women's Day, the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion hosted the presentation of the research projects that won the last Lilly Reich Grant for equality in architecture in the baccalaureate modality and the call for applications for the new edition has been opened.
The students who won the Lilly Reich Scholarship 2022/23 have presented the results of their work and Fiona Doncaster explained how the research she carried out with the baccalaureate scholarship 2021/22 on the first qualified Spanish architect has culminated in the publication "Matilde Ucelay. Dibuixant un camí" with the publishing house Collita Pròpia.
Josenia Hervás y Heras, urban architect, teacher and author of the book "The women of the Bauhaus" contributed her knowledge of the role of the women students of the Bauhaus with a dissertation on "The first Bauhaus exhibition".
Finally, Anna Ramos, director of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, closed the event with the announcement of the opening of the new call for applications for the Grant that aims to support the study, dissemination and visibility of contributions in architecture that have been discriminated against.
"Today we listen to the voices of women who tell us about other women, and we celebrate together the privilege of having been able to build the space for equality that the Lilly Reich Grants have become. We call on the new generations to fight for equality also from the classroom, with knowledge, curiosity, rigour and a desire for excellence. – Anna Ramos, director of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and promoter of the Lilly Reich Grants for equality in architecture.
Applications for baccalaureate research projects that wish to access the Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture 2023/2024 may submit their proposals until 8 April. The rules of the call are available on the website of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe. Consult them here.
The baccalaureate research projects that have been awarded the Lilly Reich scholarship for equality in architecture 2022/23, have shown the desire to show how women experience architecture and have made their results visible through digital games, illustration and handicrafts as strategies of approach.
PROJECTS
Laia Ollé Ramos from the Institut Gabriel Ferrater i Soler in Reus:
"Building and breaking ceilings"
"Building and breaking ceilings"
A documentary about the forms that architecture can take from a feminine point of view that begins with a quote by Anne Lacaton.
In this audiovisual, educational and dissemination project, we are shown various points of view about what architecture is and what it represents in the lives of 7 architects, all with different professions and points of view.
Interviews with Eva Franch, Avelina Prat, Purificación Díaz, Josenia Hervás, Juan Carazo, Carlota Bosques and Ana Sempere in their various roles as international lecturer, dancer, filmmaker, writer, jeweller, architecture student and future architecture student give a broad perspective on how they see architecture and the role of gender.
Paula Maria Arnau González from the Institut Gabriel Ferrater i Soler in Reus:
“Architect with A"
“Architect with A".
Inspired by a quote from Zaha Hadid and her commitment to feminism, it brings together and compares data on the path of a student and the day-to-day life of a professional architect through the testimony of six architects.
Through the languages provided by art and new technologies, she shapes the results in a series of posters and a mobile game to facilitate knowledge and dissemination of the figure of the women interviewed: María Langarita, Pilar Calderon, Mamen Domingo, Ari Artigas, Laura Folch and Josenia Hervás y Heras.
An application that takes us to meet women architects committed to the fight for equality.
Violeta Muñoz Vitor from the Colegio Tecla Sala in Hospitalet de Llobregat:
"The German Pavilion in Barcelona | The Modern Movement"
"The German Pavilion in Barcelona | The Modern Movement"
Violeta Muñoz delves into the modern movement through the German Pavilion in Barcelona designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich to represent Germany at the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition. It puts us in context and explains the characteristics that identify this architectural style and its greatest exponents. It devotes a section to the four most outstanding female architects of the Modernist Movement: Eileen Grey, Lilly Reich, Margaret Schütte-Lihotzky and Charlotte Perriand.
With the aim of didactically deepening, it presents a demountable model of the noble hall of the German Pavilion in Barcelona, which allows us to hold it in our hands and understand the distinctive characteristics of this new way of understanding architecture that represented the Modern Movement.
Sobre las Becas Lilly Reich para la igualdad en la arquitectura:
En la concepción y desarrollo de sus actividades, la Fundació Mies van der Rohe quiere generar investigación y debate sobre la arquitectura moderna y contemporánea de forma permeable a los cambios de paradigma, y muy especialmente en relación a conceptos que hoy son fundamentales como la identidad, la inclusión social y todas las vertientes de la sostenibilidad.
Es por ello que en 2018 se crean las Becas Lilly Reich para la igualdad en la arquitectura para reconocer el legado arquitectónico de Lilly Reich, pareja artística de Ludwig Mies van der Rohe en la concepción y ejecución del Pabellón Alemán de Barcelona 1929, que quedó relegada a un segundo plano en el relato y la memoria de esta obra capital en la historia de la arquitectura.
Desde 2020 las Becas Lilly Reich incorporan una convocatoria específica para estudiantes de Bachillerato para apoyar la realización de trabajos de investigación curriculares dedicados a revertir las invisibilizaciones en la arquitectura, Beca Lilly Reich para trabajos de investigación de Bachillerato, que se añade en la convocatoria dirigida al ámbito de la investigación académica superior.
