This book presents the lives, careers, and work of fifty largely unknown pioneers. It chronicles the triumphs and challenges these path-breaking women faced in their pursuit of entering and claiming space in the male-dominated field of architecture. Included are photographs of buildings, portraits of the architects, and some architectural drawings. Each biography offers vital data, a description of the career, a list of known buildings and work, and a bibliography. Four appendices list female architecture students at the University of California, Berkeley, women certified by California to…mehr
This book presents the lives, careers, and work of fifty largely unknown pioneers. It chronicles the triumphs and challenges these path-breaking women faced in their pursuit of entering and claiming space in the male-dominated field of architecture. Included are photographs of buildings, portraits of the architects, and some architectural drawings. Each biography offers vital data, a description of the career, a list of known buildings and work, and a bibliography. Four appendices list female architecture students at the University of California, Berkeley, women certified by California to practice architecture, members of women's architectural societies, and female members of the American Institute of Architects.
Inge Schaefer Horton is a retired city planner with a strong background in architecture who now devotes her time to the research of women architects and preservation issues in San Francisco. She is the author of several articles and two previous books on architecture in Berlin and Paris/Brussels and is a contributing author to a recent book celebrating the centennial of the Architecture Department at University of California, Berkeley.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Part I. A Collective Portrait One Dreams and Inspirations Two Stepping Out of the Drawing Room Three Off to School Four With Patience and Perseverance Five Women Employees in Architectural Firms .55 Six An Office of Her Own Seven Rising to the Challenge Eight Related Professions Nine Supporting Each Other Ten Having It All? Eleven Happily Ever After? Part II. The Design Legacy of Pioneer Women Architects Twelve Residential Work Thirteen Institutional, Commercial, and Industrial Work Fourteen The Hidden Legacy Fifteen Evaluation of Pioneer Women Practicing Architecture by Their Contemporaries Part III. Individual Portraits Austin, Elizabeth M. Aycrigg, Helen E. Findlay Bassett, Helen Rearwin Benbow, Helen G. Born, Esther Frances Baum Boyter, Elizabeth "Bess" Mary Bridgman, Lilian "Lillie" Belle Brown, Phoebe Hearst Castelhun, Ella Chadeayne, Olive Kingsley Clever, Louise Harriet Russell Coblentz, Dorothy Wormser Deakin, Edna Isabel Diment, Shirley Constance Dodge, Ola Mae Putnam Ehrenfels, Camille D'Evelyn Johnston Eller, Armena Louise Morse Emmons, Audrey Jean Durland Ksanda Fowler, Matilda Gertrude Newsom French, Helen Louise Douglass Gauen, Eileen Claudia Watkins Hall (Coggins), Leola Hufbauer, Arabelle McKee Jackson, Minnie May Jewett, Grace Jory, Grace Y. Weeks Kartwold, Lois Beryl Goetz Kavin, Eda Knapp, Charlotte "Kid" Hastings Kosmak, Evelyn Meta Hall Gilcrest Langhorst, Lois Wilson Worley Lindheim, Roslyn Ittelson Luis, Rosanna "Rose" Enos McAfee, Lucy Page Brown McCain, Ida F. Mesic, Julian C. Meyers, Mildred Sophie Morgan, Julia Morin (Van Blarcom), Grace Evelyn Morrow, Gertrude Elizabeth Comfort Nevins, Kate "Kitty" Lockwood French Squire Northman, Edith Mortensen Parug, Martha Jane Moorehead Reiss (Friedman), Hilde Sanford, Florence "Sanchia" Thurston Hincks Stan, Sara Ellen "Sally" Waldner Bould Steinmesch, Henrietta May Sutherland, Helen Earle Williams, Emily Eolian Witkin (Tarris), Elizabeth "Betty" Ord Hillier Appendix 1. Women Students in the Architecture Department/School at the University of California, Berkeley Appendix 2. Architectural Licenses Issued to Women Architects by the State of California, 1901-1961 Appendix 3. Members of Alpha Alpha Gamma or the Association of Women in Architecture in California Appendix 4. California Women Architects Admitted to the American Institute of Architects Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Part I. A Collective Portrait One Dreams and Inspirations Two Stepping Out of the Drawing Room Three Off to School Four With Patience and Perseverance Five Women Employees in Architectural Firms .55 Six An Office of Her Own Seven Rising to the Challenge Eight Related Professions Nine Supporting Each Other Ten Having It All? Eleven Happily Ever After? Part II. The Design Legacy of Pioneer Women Architects Twelve Residential Work Thirteen Institutional, Commercial, and Industrial Work Fourteen The Hidden Legacy Fifteen Evaluation of Pioneer Women Practicing Architecture by Their Contemporaries Part III. Individual Portraits Austin, Elizabeth M. Aycrigg, Helen E. Findlay Bassett, Helen Rearwin Benbow, Helen G. Born, Esther Frances Baum Boyter, Elizabeth "Bess" Mary Bridgman, Lilian "Lillie" Belle Brown, Phoebe Hearst Castelhun, Ella Chadeayne, Olive Kingsley Clever, Louise Harriet Russell Coblentz, Dorothy Wormser Deakin, Edna Isabel Diment, Shirley Constance Dodge, Ola Mae Putnam Ehrenfels, Camille D'Evelyn Johnston Eller, Armena Louise Morse Emmons, Audrey Jean Durland Ksanda Fowler, Matilda Gertrude Newsom French, Helen Louise Douglass Gauen, Eileen Claudia Watkins Hall (Coggins), Leola Hufbauer, Arabelle McKee Jackson, Minnie May Jewett, Grace Jory, Grace Y. Weeks Kartwold, Lois Beryl Goetz Kavin, Eda Knapp, Charlotte "Kid" Hastings Kosmak, Evelyn Meta Hall Gilcrest Langhorst, Lois Wilson Worley Lindheim, Roslyn Ittelson Luis, Rosanna "Rose" Enos McAfee, Lucy Page Brown McCain, Ida F. Mesic, Julian C. Meyers, Mildred Sophie Morgan, Julia Morin (Van Blarcom), Grace Evelyn Morrow, Gertrude Elizabeth Comfort Nevins, Kate "Kitty" Lockwood French Squire Northman, Edith Mortensen Parug, Martha Jane Moorehead Reiss (Friedman), Hilde Sanford, Florence "Sanchia" Thurston Hincks Stan, Sara Ellen "Sally" Waldner Bould Steinmesch, Henrietta May Sutherland, Helen Earle Williams, Emily Eolian Witkin (Tarris), Elizabeth "Betty" Ord Hillier Appendix 1. Women Students in the Architecture Department/School at the University of California, Berkeley Appendix 2. Architectural Licenses Issued to Women Architects by the State of California, 1901-1961 Appendix 3. Members of Alpha Alpha Gamma or the Association of Women in Architecture in California Appendix 4. California Women Architects Admitted to the American Institute of Architects Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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