Mujeres arquitectas en el sudeste asiático: el caso de la India: Educación, globalización y tradición

In the nineteenth century, British and Indian reformers stressed the role of the education of women in India. However, none of them thought of education in terms of training female professionals to work in the public sphere. Nonetheless, in the middle of the twentieth century, technical universities started opening their doors to an elite group of women who became the first generation of women architects in India and thereby blazed the trail for future generations of female architects. Nowadays, many of these professionals trained in India and abroad are combining new ways of undertaking and understanding construction, and applying them to the conservation, rehabilitation and projection of public and private buildings, thereby making them more sustainable and environmentally friendly.