The Architect Barbie Conundrum
The world’s most popular doll, with a hot-pink blueprint tube and a hard hat: friend or foe to a profession already suffering from a pronounced gender gap?
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This story was originally published as "Girl Talk" in Dwell’s August 2012 issue.
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Alexandra Lange
Alexandra Lange is a critic, journalist and architectural historian based in Brooklyn.
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