According to a recent American study, sexism and racism are so widespread in architecture that there is a distaste for these topics within the branch itself. What are the reasons for this exclusionary working culture? Even in Germany, most architecture graduates since the turn of the millennium have been female-but a large number of conventions and assumptions within the discipline make it difficult for women to remain in the profession. As a result, a great deal of highly trained talent is lost. Black Turtleneck, Round Glasses uses an intersectional feminist perspective to examine the structural causes that push women-and anyone else who isn't a white cis man-out of the branch. How can architectural teaching and discourse as well as the industry's self-image become more diverse? Where are the experiences of a pluralistic society missing from the built environment? How can we bring about cultural change in planning and architecture?

Featuring an interview with the Dutch architect Afaina de Jong

Karin Hartmann is an architect and an author as well as an associate member of the Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten (BDA). She researches, writes, and speaks on building culture and intersectional feminism. From 2016 to 2021 she was a policy officer at the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs, and Spatial Development (BBSR), and she has worked as a freelancer and for Baukultur Nordrhein-Westfalen since 2021.

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