Title & Author:

Women in American architecture : a historic and contemporary perspective : a publication and exhibition organized by the Architectural League of New York through its Archive of Women in Architecture / edited by Susana Torre.

Publication:

New York : Whitney Library of Design, 1977.

Description:

224 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-218) and index.
Introduction: A parallel history / Susana Torre -- "Woman's place": the design of domestic space -- The model domestic environment: icon or option? / Gwendolyn Wright -- Challenging the American domestic ideal / Dolores Hayden -- Catharine Beecher and the politics of housework / Dolores Hayden -- Women in the architectural professions: a historic perspective -- Pioneer women architects / Judith Paine -- Some professional roles: 1860-1910 -- Sophia Hayden and the Woman's Building Competition / Judith Paine -- Report presented by Sophia Hayden to the Board of Lady Managers in 1894 -- Marion Mahony Griffin / Susan Fondiler Berkon -- Julia Morgan / Sara Boutelle -- Struggle for place: women in architecture: 1920-1960 / Mary Otis Stevens -- Some professional roles: 1920-1960 -- Eleanor Raymond / Doris Cole -- Lilian Rice / Judith Paine -- Natalie de Blois / Judith Paine -- New professional identities: four women in the sixties / Jan McGroarty and Susana Torre -- Women as critics -- 9 voices of consequence: four architectural critics / Suzanne Stephens -- Women in the architectural profession: a contemporary perspective -- Women in architecture and the new feminism / Susana Torre -- A current portfolio of projects and ideas / Susana Torre -- Women's spatial symoblism -- Centers and fragments: women's spaces / Lucy R. Lippard -- The pyramid and the labyrinth / Susana Torre -- Historic chart relating architectural projects to general and women's history in the U.S. / Naomi Leff.
A publication and exhibition organized by the Architectural League of New York through its Archive of Women in Architecture.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0823074854
9780823074853

Subject:

Women architects United States.
Femmes architectes États-Unis.
Women architects
Bouwkunst.
Vrouwen.
Vrouwelijke kunstenaars.
United States

Added entries:

Torre, Susana, 1944- editor, writer of introduction.
Architectural League of New York.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 2610
Call No.: PO3859; ID:87-B11570
Copy: 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 8353
Call No.: ID EXHNEWYORK; ID:85-B5352
Copy: 2
Status: Available