Books
Book presentation. On 11th May 2011, the book Mujeres y arquitectura: cristianas y mudéjares en la construcción (Women and architecture: Christian and Mudejar women in building) by Mª Elena Díez Jorge was presented at the Granada Book Fair. Manuela Marín Niño did the presentation. The book was also presented at the International Symposium on Mudejarism in Teruel (September 2011).

Traditionally the active participation of women in architecture throughout history has been ignored by historians. This also applies to Mudejar architecture. There are very important studies on some of the most important Mudejar buildings and spaces in which there are references to patronage and the use of spaces, but the use of space according to gender has hardly ever been explored and there has been little specific investigation of the spaces occupied by women. There is also a need to compare the strategies applied by men and women in architectural patronage and the respective areas they worked in. This book deals with some of these questions on the basis of a study of women and architecture during the long historical and artistic process of the Mudejar period. Although this book is about women (women and art in Granada, female spaces in the Alhambra, craftswomen) it also tackles the gender perspective in that it makes comparisons and relations with the roles, spaces and salaries assigned to men. The aim is to understand the history of architecture in a more objective way by integrating the contributions made by men and women.