A feminist analysis of the historiography of modern architecture in Chile

In Chile, as in the rest of the world, the participation of women in the architecture history has traditionally been silenced by hegemonic historiography. It is increasingly common to hear that women architects have been excluded from the history of architecture. But what exactly does this refer to? How have women architects been erased from the architecture history? The objectives of this article are analyze in detail the exclusion mechanisms used by the hegemonic historiography of architecture in Chile, and understand how these mechanisms operate. To undertake this task, the case of the historiography of modern architecture is analyzed. The hypothesis that arises is that in Chile the history of modern architecture has been written from the paradigm of masculine subjectivity, which has resulted in the existence of an untold history of modern architecture. It is argued that this absent story in which the female architects participate is based on narratives of exclusion. The article analyzes the canonical texts of modern architecture from a feminist perspective.