When UB’s Kelly Hayes McAlonie and Despina Stratigakos collaborated with Mattel in 2011 to create and launch Architect Barbie, they had no idea the architecture debates the doll would provoke. Barbie ...

Move over, Howard Roark! There’s a new architect in town and she’s not afraid of the color pink. Mattel’s Architect Barbie, icon of the building trades, is ready for launch. Eleven-and-a-half inches ...

Mattel unveiled the latest addition to its line of career Barbie dolls — Architect Barbie — at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) convention in New Orleans Thursday, May 12. The new doll makes ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — More than a decade after the release of Architect Barbie, she’s back in the spotlight after being featured in the hit film Barbie — and she has a Buffalo connection. University ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do dollhouses possess the potential to inspire young girls to design and build? Kosamtu via Getty Images As a kid growing up in ...

Over the years, Barbie has been an astronaut, a nurse, the president of the United States and a police officer, among more than 120 careers. But she's never been an architect, and a University at ...

This fall Mattel will release Barbie Architect as part of its “Barbie I Can Be” line. The doll comes with a pink blueprint holder, hardhat, and black glasses. (How else would you know she’s smart?) It ...

As a kid growing up in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, in the ’80s, my sister and I spent a lot of time playing with Barbie in the basement of our single-family home. I loved dressing her and ...