City Dreamers: Portraits of four women who shaped the world we live in GlobeArts
“You’re going to have a hard time in the profession.” That was what Blanche Lemco van Ginkel heard from a colleague when she showed up for an important architecture conference in 1953. And you can see why: in a photo of the event featured inThat fact, however, did not stop her from pursuing a long and distinguished career in a deeply exclusive field.
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander. Oberlander is among the most distinguished landscape architects of her generation but is often overlooked because of her gender and residency in Vancouver.The film’s portraits of the four women in their own environments are invaluable. We see Lambert, a daughter of the Bronfman family, reject her appointed place as a socialite to become a major patron and intellectual leader in architecture.
We learn that Lemco van Ginkel, as a young woman, talked herself into the office of the Swiss titan Le Corbusier, and wound up designing some of the Unité D’Habitation – among the most important buildings of the 20th century. Then she and her husband Sandy van Ginkel helped shape Montreal in meaningful ways before she became head of the architecture school at the University of Toronto.
We meet Scott Brown, the South African émigré who shook up the entire discourse of architecture along with her husband Robert Venturi. Her own mother was an architect – she jokes that when she entered architecture school in South Africa in 1949, she looked around and asked, “What are all these men doing here?”
Denise Scott Brown. Scott Brown shook up the entire discourse of architecture along with her husband Robert Venturi.And finally, there is Oberlander, among the most distinguished landscape architects of her generation, but often overlooked because of her gender and her residency in Vancouver. Hillel discusses her innovative work in playgrounds – still underrated today – and her masterwork with Arthur Erickson, Robson Square.
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