The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture

Herausgeber: Sokolina, Anna

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture illuminates the names of pioneering women who over time continue to foster, shape, and build cultural, spiritual, and physical environments in diverse regions around the globe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 184mm x 261mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1158g
• ISBN-13: 9780367232344
• ISBN-10: 0367232340
• Artikelnr.: 67517270

Autorenporträt

Anna Sokolina is an architect, historian, curator, and founding Chair of SAH Women in Architecture AG, who also contributes to the advisory boards of the International Archive of Women in Architecture and Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture (ed. Lori Brown and Karen Burns, forthcoming). She holds a PhD in Theory and History of Architecture and Landmarks Preservation from VNIITAG branch of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (1992). She graduated from the Moscow Institute of Architecture (1980) and New York University SPS (2001) and interned at the Guggenheim Museum New York, Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and the Public Design Commission at the NYC Mayor's Office, and has contributed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1999-2007), the Morgan Library and Museum, and ARTMargins. She worked as an architect and Research associate at CNIITIA/VNIITAG, as Curator of Exhibitions at Tabakman Museum, and was a member of the architecture faculty at Miami University, where she also curated the Cage Gallery. She was the first independent woman curator of the itinerant Russian Paper Architecture exhibitions in Germany and France (1992-1993) and the first lecturer from Russia invited after the collapse of the USSR by the European Academy of the Urban Environment (EA.UE Berlin) in the UNESCO program "Sustainable Settlements." She has received seventeen grants and awards; her 104 artworks are housed in twenty-three collections; and her over ninety publications include Architecture and Anthroposophy (ed., 2001, 2010, e-access 2019), and Building Utopia: Architecture of the GDR (in progress).

Inhaltsangabe

PART I Women in the Early Profession and Leadership: Preindustrial Age to
Early Twentieth Century From Domestic Realms into Public Life and Culture
1 Did Women Design or Build Before the Industrial Age? 2 For Homeowners and
Housekeepers: The Architecture of Minerva Parker Nichols in Late
Nineteenth-Century America 3 Nell Brooker Mayhew and the Arts and Crafts
Movement in America 4 "Designing Houses Is Like Having Babies": Verna Cook
and the Practice of Architecture in the 1920s and 1930s 5 The Forgotten Art
of Florence Hope Luscomb 6 "This Is Not a Success Story": Florence Fulton
Hobson, Architect in Northern Ireland PART II Women in the Modern Movement:
The First Half of the Twentieth Century The Limits of Engagement in the
Architectural Profession and the Agenda of "Modern" Work 7 Eileen Gray:
Invitation to an Intellectual Journey 8 Blocks Versus Knots: Bauhaus Women
Weavers' Contribution to Architecture's Canon 9 Lutah Maria Riggs: A
Portrait of a Modern Revival-Style Architect 10 Regarding De Stijl through
a Gender Perspective: The Life and Work of Han Schroder 11 Reclaiming the
Work of Women Architects in Mandatory Palestine 12 More Than Shelter: Olive
Tjaden's Suburban Projects in New York and Florida PART III Women in the
Context of Mid-Century Modernism Mainstream Practice Formations, Public
Engagement, and Women's Wider Agency in the Field 13 Lois Davidson
Gottlieb: A Woman Fellow 14 Consulting and Curating the Modern Interior:
The Work of Hilde Reiss, 1943-1946 15 Architect, Partner, Wife: Mid-Century
Husband-and-Wife Partnerships 16 "Mrs. Meric Callery" 17 Katherine Morrow
Ford: Designs for Living 18 Architect, Builder, Client, Secretary: The
Women of the Sarasota School PART IV Women in Architecture of the Late
Twentieth Century Architectural Work and Urban Planning: Drawing, Building,
Educating, Archiving 19 Together Not Apart: Creating Constellations in
Learning from an Archive 20 Women's Contributions to Manitoba's Built
Environment: The Case of Green Blankstein Russell 21 Uncovering Her
Archive: Ayla Karacabey in Postwar Architecture 22 Restless: Drawn by Zaha
Hadid 23 "Something More Solid and Massive": The Architecture of Lauretta
Vinciarelli 24 Flora Ruchat-Roncati and the "Will to Keep Working" Irina
Davidovici and Katia Frey PART V Women in Architecture: From the 1960s to
the Present Breaking the Glass Ceiling 25 Expanding the Legacy: The
International Archive of Women in Architecture 26 Breaking the Silence:
Women in Russian Architecture 27 Leaving a Lasting Legacy. Beverly Willis:
Groundbreaking Architect, Artist, Designer, Filmmaker, and Philanthropist
28 Reflections: Creating an Architectural Practice 29 Collaborations: The
Architecture and Art of Sigrid Miller Pollin