Remoendo números: a divulgação da produção das arquitetas nas revistas especializadas Projeto e AU (Arquitetura e Urbanismo), 2016 - 2023

Abstract

In this dissertation, we aim to analyze how the production of female architects is disseminated in the specialized magazines Projeto and AU (Arquitetura e Urbanismo), with a time frame that goes from 2016 to 2023, covering the transition period between the last printed editions and the first digital ones. To do this, we updated the research carried out by Flávia Carvalho de Sá (2010), Marina Lima de Fontes (2016) and Camila Guerreiro Reis (2022), who also investigated specialized journals with similar objectives. This is situated research, developed from an intersectional feminist perspective and uses a quantitative methodological approach, based on cataloging, surveying, extracting and analyzing data. The discussions were based on the concepts of sexual division of labor, with Daniéle Kergoat; gender injustice, with Nancy Fraser; intersectionality, with Carla Akotirene; and whiteness, with Maria Aparecida Silva Bento. The results show that women, and especially black women, are under-represented in the most prominent editorial sections, despite the fact that women currently represent 64% of Brazilian architects and urban planners. With this, we discussed how much we still need to keep mulling over the numbers in search of gender parity in architecture.