Abstract
How did women architects shape a modern world in the late period of Portuguese colonial Africa, just before the Carnation Revolution? The specific role of women in Portugal working in colonial African architectural culture has now started to be addressed by Portuguese and Lusophone-African historiography. During the 1950s, the presence of women in the metropolitan schools of architecture was reduced. Of those who could graduate, few actually worked as architects. Most were absorbed by the commonly feminine roles, resulting from marriage and from the ideal of family promoted by the Estado Novo dictatorship. To the ones that risked prosecution for working outside the family, the option of jobs associated with the feminine universe, such as teaching, was privileged. Among those who were emancipated from this pattern, the majority worked in familiar partnerships, regarded as an extension of marriage. The women architects that follow the husbands in their African emigration often ended up having the opportunities to work in their professional field partly due to the lack of qualified technicians, and to the high demand of commissions. This paper not only seeks to outline a perspective on these women, but also tries to understand the context of their work by presenting two case-studies in the late in the late period of Portuguese Colonisation: Maria Carlota Quintanilha and Maria Emilia Caria.
Highlights
Introduction toNon-pedigreed Architecture (Rudofsky 1964).From this year onwards, and up until 1974, Caria’s plans for the Cape Verdean capital focused on the port area of Praia.Praia traditionally occupied the “Achada Principal” only, so the city was somewhat restricted in terms of expansion
The women architects that follow the husbands in their African emigration often ended up having the opportunities to work in their professional field partly due to the lack of qualified technicians, and to the high demand of commissions
This paper seeks to outline a perspective on these women, and tries to understand the context of their work by presenting two case-studies in the late in the late period of Portuguese Colonisation: Maria Carlota
Summary
Maria Carlota Quintanilha (1923–2015) and Maria Emília Caria (1926–2000) were trained as architects in Portugal during the Estado Novo regime (1928/1933–1974), a period when it was far from easy for a woman to become an architect. To better understand the architecture education system in Portugal in the period when Quintanilha and Caria studied in Lisbon and Porto, its differences and affinities, see (Moniz 2011) Quintanilha met her future husband, the architect João José Tinoco, at the Porto School, and they married shortly before they left for Portuguese Africa. One given her greater of movement in terms her professional career, the opportunity to important detail in her biography the fact her mother held a university degreeshe in Biology, travel to the African colonies in theisservice ofthat the Ministry of Overseas Her had worked as a high school teacher, was, the time, a more female father, the colonel.
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