For UIA 2011 TOKYO 24th World Congress of
Architecture, G.T. Ward Professor of Architecture Donna Dunay, FAIA, and Helene Renard, Assistant Professor of Interior
Design at Virginia Tech, gave opening and closing talks for the exhibit, “For
the Future: Pioneering Women in Architecture from Japan and Beyond,” mounted at
the Tokyo Forum. “For the Future:” showcases work in an historical framework
through projects and achievements between Japan and the US, and beyond. The
exhibition designed as a collaborative effort of the International Archive of
Women in Architecture Center (IAWA) at Virginia Tech with the International
Union of Women Architects (UIFA) Japan to celebrate 25 years of the IAWA
presents unique, early and largely unknown histories of women’s contributions
to architecture.