LA DONNA COSTRUISCE: Italia-Libano-Spagna (WOMEN WHO BUILD: Italy-Lebanon-Spain) is an exhibition of architectural works designed by  women or teams in which women participation has been significant.  It has been presented, up to date, in four spanish cities:Alcalá de Henares (1999), Madrid (2000), San Sebastián (2001) and Vitoria (2001).

This travelling exhibition, designed as a living, fanciful and participative activity, has been created as a cultural colaboration project in an international level within the mediterranean area. We have the project in reaching farther coasts in a near future: different countries in Latin America.

The exhibition started whith thirty-five architectural projects, but today it has fifty-two because of the contribution of architects in the countries in which the exhibition has taken place; works which do enrich its content and show the different contributions to architecture of women working in different realities.

In december 2002,  the opening act of the exhibition in the  Order of Engeneers and Architects of Beirut took place, thanks an agreement between the Ministry of Public Works of Spain and Cervantes Institute. This time, the exhibition adquired seven new projects of lebanese architects and five more of spanish architects.

The exhibition was opened in Rome in 10th May 2003, with the participation of the President of the Order of Architecture of Rome, Amadeo Schiattarella, the director of the Cervantes Institute of Rome, Javier Ruiz Sierra, the two commissaries architects, Ana Estirado & Cristina García-Rosales, and the lebanese architect Simone Kosremelli. Five new projects of young italian architects where added:

Carmen Andriani
Conditioning of a pedestrian route, Historical Centre, Rome.

María Cristina Finucci
Apartament Restoration in Ille de la Cité, París.

Paola Rossi:
Automercato Fiori - Renault Concessionaire, Rome

Guendalina Salimei:
Touristic Installation: A camping site in Collalto Sabino Woods (Rieti),

Stefanía Stera:
House and Art Foundation, París.

After the first international stop at the port of Beirut, we hope this second stop in the historical city of Rome, inside the beautiful neoclasic building named Acquario Romano (now la Casa dell´ Architettura  dell´ Ordine degli Architetti di Roma), will contribute to the creation of an open, cultural an solidary platform of female professionals related to the design and management of inhabited places, women that, with their own "other look", will actively colaborate in the design of a new city and of a new society.

Institutions that have taken part Rome Exhibition:

- Production: Ministry of Public Works of Spain.
- Organization: Cervantes Institute - Ordine degli Architetti di Roma.
- Colaboration: Woman Institute of Spain.