In recognition of International Women's Day, Dezeen asked 22 of the world's most inspirational women architects and designers to "nominate another woman who should be better known for their work." Weitzman is well represented on the list, which features Miller Professor and Chair Winka Dubbeldam, alum Lin Huiyin (BFA’27), and former professor Anne Griswold Tyng.
Dubbeldam was nominated by Sonali Rastogi of Morphogenesis.
She writes, "Being in academia myself, what resonates with me is [Dubbeldam's] significant influence on the emerging generation through her involvement in architectural education and design juries worldwide. Her designs are evocative and transformative, and she creates architecture that matters. I read somewhere that she maintains a fluid balance between energy and calm, precision and informality, experiment and comfort in her designs, studio, and life, a mantra I have been following all my life."
Huiyin was nominated by Rossana Hu of Neri&Hu.
Hu writes, "Lin Huiyin was the first female architect in modern China. Lin and her partner Liang Sicheng (MArch‘27) were the pioneers in architectural heritage restoration and documentation in China during the 1930s. Although it was the two of them who brought China's ancient architectural treasures to light, Lin's recognition in documenting and restoring China's historic buildings has often been overshadowed by her partner, who is recognised as the 'father of modern Chinese architecture."
In 2018, Lin and Sicheng were featured in a major traveling exhibition at the Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum.
Tyng was nominated by Huang Wenjing of Open Architecture.
Wenjing writes, "Born in China in 1920 to missionary parents; a classmate of Eileen Pei and IM Pei — these two little details seem to have brought [Tyng] closer to me, my being Chinese and had worked in the office that IM founded. Tyng was one of the first women to study architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design; the only woman to take the architectural license test in 1949."
Tyng taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1968 until 1995. Her courses were an extension of her writing and research focusing on geometric order and human scale in architecture. A collection of her work is housed by the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania.
Another nominee, V. Mitch McEwen, delivered a virtual lecture as part of the Weitzman Summer School in June 2020. McEwen is an assistant professor of architecture at Princeton.
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