June /202122 Gender barriers in architecture, a discussion at rocagallery.com The digital event “Spaces for women architects”, included in the monthly topic “Boundaries”, focused on the physical, geographical or social frontiers faced by the sector During the week that marked International Women’s “Spaces for women architects” is a series of converwith a selection of meetings and interviews with Day, Roca brought together the architects Kathryn H.sations created by Roca in 2015 to discuss the roleleading professionals in the design and architecture Anthony, Anupama Kundoo, Zaida Muixí and Lucía of women in architecture and design. In previous edi sectors. C. PérezMoreno at the digital event “Spaces for tions, the sessions took place at the Roca Galleries women architects: boundaries”, a discussion about in Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon, but this time it was the past, the present and the future of women in a live online event at rocagallery.com, as part of the archi tecture. initiative #RocaGalleryConnects, a series of online Moderated by Martha Thorne, dean of IE School of meetings and interviews to address relevant issues Architecture and Design and executive director of in the field of architecture and design. the Pritzker Architecture Prize, and Diane Gray, coDuring the presentation of the event, Xavier Torras, founder and executive director of LA(H)B LaboratorioRoca Brand Communication Director, explained that Arquitectura Hospitalaria Barcelona and edi this series was created with the aim of “listening to the torinchief of rocagallery.com, the four speakersfemale voices within the sector and giving them visi discussed the barriers they have encountered bility” and that at times like these, when discussion throughout their professional careers, such as thespaces like the Roca Galleries play a key role in so lack of female peers in a very small and maledomiciety, overcoming physical boundaries means that nated sector or the academic or family environmentsthese “essential conversations are available for every that do not provide much support. The architects one, reaching a much wider audience.” also took into account the geographical barriers in Diane Gray and Martha Thorne moderated the debate their interventions, as they come from countries suchThe video of the session is available at rocagallery. Spaces for women as the United States, India, Argentina and Spain. com, in the section #RocaGalleryConnects, along architects Zaha Hadid Design and Soul Arquitectura Interior, among others, participate at #RocaGalleryConnects The initiative has expanded its interviews to internationally renowned professionals, which can now be found at rocagallery.com Renowned architecture and design studios and Live, a format that continues and has been recent professionals, such as Zaha Hadid Design, Soul ly joined by the “Questions & Answers” format on Arquitectura Interior, Mesura or Dorota Koziara, haveInstagram Stories. In this case, the followers put joined the initiative #RocaGalleryConnects which, their questions to the professionals, who reply to a after last year’s success, has expanded its formatsselection of them. The answers to these questions of digital meetings and interviews. can be found at rocagallery.com, within the section #RocaGalleryConnects was launched in March #RocaGalleryConnects. 2020 as a series of live interviews on Instagram #RocaGalleryConnects Maha Kutay and Woody Yao, directors of Zaha Hadid Design 13