For UIA 2011 TOKYO 24th World Congress of Architecture, G.T. Ward Professor of Architecture Donna Dunay, FAIA, and Helene Renard, Assistant Professor of Interior Design at Virginia Tech, gave opening and closing talks for the exhibit, “For the Future: Pioneering Women in Architecture from Japan and Beyond,” mounted at the Tokyo Forum. “For the Future:” showcases work in an historical framework through projects and achievements between Japan and the US, and beyond. The exhibition designed as a collaborative effort of the International Archive of Women in Architecture Center (IAWA) at Virginia Tech with the International Union of Women Architects (UIFA) Japan to celebrate 25 years of the IAWA presents unique, early and largely unknown histories of women’s contributions to architecture.