Compliments to our brave architect! : the Nederlands first women architects Margaret Staal Kropholler (1891 1966) is regarded as the first woman architect in the Netherlands. She completed her first work as an unqualified architect in 1917. Less well known is that Grada Wolffensperger (1887 1965) became the first woman to complete the university course in architecture at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft that same year. A further twenty women had completed their architectural training by 1945. Why and how did these women become architects at a time when women were expected to raise a family and take care of a household What was their education like And was it actually possible for them to practise a profession so dominated by men Compliments to our brave architect! describes the emergence of women architects. Including 21 biographies the book forms an indispensable reference work on a neglected aspect of Dutch architectural history. Publisher information