In this conversation, the Bangalore-based architecture studio ShoulderTap reflects on what it means to practice architecture as a predominantly female-led office within a still male-dominated discipline. For them, feminism is not a separate theme added onto the work, but something that shapes the conditions of practice itself: from the way clients approach the studio, to the authority that must be asserted on construction sites, to the persistent bias that associates women with interiors rather than technical or structural questions. This perspective also informs how they think about domestic space. Rather than reproducing inherited roles within the home, ShoulderTap questions how architecture can resist assigning care and household labor to women by default.
