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?

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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