Cathy Saldaña of PDP Architects says women are not just breaking barriers but also bending the steel and looking at ways to be taller or as tall as the men
“I went to the University of the Philippines College of Architecture. It was the late 80s, and there was a lot of political turmoil. Yet, we elected a female president for the very first time in the history of this country. Because of that, being female was almost equated to being yourself, courageous, brave, and taking steps beyond your comfort zone,” recounts Cathy Saldaña-Siegel when we asked about her architecture education as we sat and chat in an echoey conference room. It was a day after the Women’s Day celebration and five days after the announcement of the first female Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate duo. The women in us, high in celebration, enthusiastically talked about women making their marks in the male-dominated world of architecture, she included.
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Written by: Denny Mata