Another week spent trying to narrow down my topic and get closer towards a final research subject. I’ve been looking into the influence of capitalism + politics on modernism through the lense of female architects/designers. With this topic, I want to narrow it down to 2-3 case studies of female designers (preferably architects) in different countries/areas of the world and how politics influenced the progression of modernism in their designs. Currently, I’m looking into Lilly Reich, Natalie de Blois, Eileen Gray, and Lina Bo Bardi. Lilly Reich (1885-1947) is a German interior architect, Natalie de Blois (1921-2013) is an American architect, Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is an Irish interior architect who mostly worked in France, and Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) is an Italian Architect who mainly worked in Brazil. The hardest part so far with this subject has been finding good documentation of these women’s work and how it relates to the overall modernist movement. I think the best way to move forward with these designers as case studies is to try to select architects and not just interior designers and to focus on who has the most documentation of their work. Something I used as framework to narrow down to this list of designers was that they all had to have been working around the time of WW2, so they would all have similar world context, and the main impact on their design differences would be their specific country’s political and economic state.