Lynne Walker and Elizabeth Darling, who worked together on the AAXX 100 project, have taken part in a Conversazione for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, discussing their work developing a feminist architectural history and reincorporating stories of forgotten women into the architectural canon. 'In Drawing on Diversity, I explored how conditions of training and practice both inhibited and facilitated women’s practice within the profession. Of these the most important was systematic architectural education, which began from around the time of the First World War. In the early days of women’s presence in architectural schools, the high standard of architectural drawing by female students was strongly welcomed and heavily called on in Beaux-Arts training. The AA student Betty Scott’s drawing of the Corinthian order (c.1924) showed this typical but substantial skill. Extraordinary levels of conceptual ability, which augured well for future practices, were achieved by contemporary students and exemplified in the exhibition by Lesley Lokko’s fifth-year project (which was awarded a distinction) at the Bartlett, ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ (1995), a series of 12 drawings and a text that explored the relationship between race and architecture.'

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