Reflections on Andean women making space(s)

Response to the Special Issue Women Making Space in the Andes: 1400–1900 from Architecture Beyond Europe (ABE) peer-reviewed Journal. The article argues that the journal's contributions lies in engage critically with the role of architectural history today —a pressing concern for the field in these turbulent times— through the convergence of three interrelated concerns that continue to struggle to make space within the boundaries of Western architectural historiography. First, the issue locates architectural-historical debates at the core of the Andes, rather than framing them through Latin America as a conceptual construct or South America as a purely geographical category. Second, it centres women and their spatial agency within this context. Third, it situates these enquiries within the period 1400–1900, spanning from early processes of colonisation to moments of anti-colonial unrest.