postCentral & Eastern Europe | Art and Gender An Overlooked Mentor & Innovator: Marta StaņaThis essay examines the practice of architecture and the roles assigned to female architects in Latvia in the 1950s to the early 1990s through the life and work of Latvian architect Marta Staņa. My initial encounter with Marta Staņa (1913–1972) and her work in architecture occurred in 2002 when, as a young archi
