The foremost objective of this project is to visualize gender relations in architecture, which has traditionally been considered an essentially masculine area of creation. The different historical records and sources have provided a great deal of information about the continuous participation of women in this field and cast light on the many and varied roles that women may have played as patrons, as architects, or working in studios, workshops or even on the building site itself.

The project we are presenting here seeks to define and visualize the role played by women. This role has always been inextricably entwined with the role established for the male gender and the actions performed by men, bearing in mind that the assigned roles and attitudes of the different genders did not function dichotomically and there were frequent and continuous exchanges and transfers between them. For this reason, this research seeks not only to break down the discriminatory discourses constructed by the patriarchal system but also aims to reflect on possible points of agreement between the genders, proposals for convergence and consensus that have also existed throughout history.

Gender has been and indeed remains a basic factor when it comes to conceiving, planning and designing spaces and it is therefore a useful category for historical analysis. In view of the current state of historiography on this subject, we feel that it is necessary to approach this question from a broad, multi-disciplinary, historical perspective, without forgetting the need for very specific pieces of research.