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First of all you have to be incredibly wealthy to study at the AA as a foreign student in the first place. I'm not sure where you get your info that she was a
by twelvechairs 8y ago
First of all you have to be incredibly wealthy to study at the AA as a foreign student in the first place.
I'm not sure where you get your info that she was a star student - by all accounts I know of she struggled at times at the AA, and often didn't get great grades. She was quite headstrong (which is kind of what they teach you) and got on with some people and not with others.
There's other great women in the world of Architecture too like Sejima or Carme Pigem (both themselves Pritzker prize winners) who get much less attention by non-architects. And run their practices in a much less exploitative way