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write women
August-December 2010Slide2
write women
August-December 2010
A library in search of a decent displaySlide3
write women
August-December 2010
A library in search of a decent display
process
contentSlide4
Typical display
a
dd water
l
ecture literatureSlide5
Department work plan
collaborative diversity project
in depth display
engage Arch &
LArch
departments
part
time
staff asking for creative tasks Slide6
selecting theme
influential
women writers
initial research &
list
Henry, Stephanie & Tim
10 authors
polling faculty &
staff
46
authors from
12 faculty
paring list
down
21 authors
4 categories
feminist spacehistorical criticismurban designenvironmental impactSlide7
research
& writing
content
Darla & Mackenzie
e
diting & tweaking
Stephanie &
T
im
creating
&
assembling
Mackenzie, Megan D,
Siti
, Anne & Tim
publicity
PRaM – brochure & InterviewCollegian, Nov. 9th 2010timelinestarted research in Feb 2010
opened in Aug 2010
c
losed end of Dec 2010Slide8
write women
feminist space
historical criticism
urban design
environmental impactSlide9
feminist space
Catharine Beecher (1800-1878)
The American Woman’s Home
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
Twenty Years at
Hull-House
The Second Twenty Years at
Hull-House
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
The Home: Its Work and Influence
Utopian Novels:
Moving the Mountain,
Herland
, With Her in
OurlandBeatriz ColominaDomesticity at War The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism in Sexuality and SpaceSlide10
feminist space
Catharine Esther Beecher
Born
:
Sept.
6th, 1800, East Hampton, NY
Died: May 12th, 1878, Elmira, New York
Education: Litchfield Female Academy
Featured
Titles:
A Treatise on Domestic Economy
Miss
Beecher’s Housekeeper and
Healthkeeper
The
American Woman’s Home - with Harriet Beecher StoweSlide11
feminist space
Jane Addams
Born:
Sept.
6th, 1860, Cedarville, Illinois
Died: May 21st, 1935 Chicago, Illinois
Education: Rockford Female Seminary (now Rockford College)
Featured
Titles:
Twenty Years at Hull-House
The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House
Jane Addams: A Centennial ReaderSlide12
feminist space
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born: July 3rd, 1860, Hartford, Connecticut
Died:
Aug.
17th, 1935, Pasadena, California
Education: Rhode Island School of Design
Featured
Titles:
The Home: its Work and Influence
Utopian Novels:
Moving
the
Mountain
Herland
With Her
in OurlandCharlotte Perkins Gilman : a nonfiction reader"The Home is Just a Place to Hang Things Up In.“
Cartoon
mocking Gilman's architectural proposals,
San Francisco Examiner, May 22, 1895Slide13
feminist space
Beatriz
Colomina
Education:
Escola
Técnica
Superior de
Arquitectura
de
Barcelona
Professor of
History and
Theory, Princeton University
Featured
Titles:
Domesticity at WarPrivacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass MediaThe Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism in Sexuality and Space Slide14
historical criticism
Louisa C.
Tuthill
(1799-1879)
History of Architecture from the Earliest Times
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934)
Accents as Well as Broad Effects: Writings on Architecture, Landscape, and the Environment
Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)
The Stones of Florence
Venice Observed
Ada Louise
Huxtable
(1921- )
Goodbye History, Hello Hamburger Kicked a Building Lately? Slide15
historical criticism
Louisa Caroline
Tuthill
Born: July 6th, 1799, New Haven, Connecticut
Died: June 1st, 1879, Princeton, New Jersey
Education: Litchfield Female Academy
Featured
Title:
History of Architecture from the Earliest Times Slide16
historical criticism
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
Born:
Feb.
21st, 1851, New York, New York
Died:
Jan.
20th, 1934, New York, New York
Featured Titles:
Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works
Accents as Well as Broad Effects: Writings on Architecture, Landscape, and the Environment,
1876-1925Slide17
historical criticism
Mary McCarthy
Born: June 21st, 1912, Seattle, Washington
Died:
Oct.
25th, 1989, New York, New York
Education: Vassar College
Featured Titles:
The Stones of Florence
Venice Observed Slide18
historical criticism
Ada Louise
Huxtable
Born: March 14th, 1921, New York, New York
Education: Hunter College, New York
University
Architecture Critic,
Wall Street Journal
Featured Titles:
On Architecture
Goodbye History, Hello Hamburger
Kicked a Building Lately?
The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered
The Unreal America : Architecture and Illusion Slide19
urban design
Theodora Kimball Hubbard (1887-1935)
Our Cities To-day and To-morrow
An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design
Jane
Jacobs (1918-2006)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Denise Scott Brown (1931- )
Learning from Las Vegas
“Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture”
Setha
Low
On the Plaza
Behind the Gates Slide20
urban design
Theodora Kimball Hubbard
Born: Feb. 26th, 1887, Newton, Massachusetts
Died: Nov. 8th, 1935, Milton, Massachusetts
Education:
Simmons
College
Featured Titles:
Our Cities To-day and To-morrow
An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design Slide21
urban design
Jane Jacobs
Born: May 4th, 1918, Scranton, Pennsylvania
Died: April 25th, 2006, Toronto, Canada
Education: Scranton Central High School
Featured
Titles:
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Cities and the Wealth of NationsSlide22
urban design
Denise Scott Brown
Born: Oct., 3rd, 1931,
Nkana
, Northern Rhodesia
Education
:
University of the Witwatersrand
(South Africa)
Architectural Association (London
)
University
of Pennsylvania
Partner,
Venturi
, Scott Brown and Associates
Featured Titles:Learning from Las Vegas: the Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form“Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture” Urban ConceptsSlide23
urban design
Setha
Low
Education:
Pitzer
College & UC Berkeley
Professor of Environmental Psychology and Anthropology, City University of New York
Featured Titles:
On the Plaza:
The Politics
of Public Space and Culture
Behind the Gates:
Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in
Fortress
AmericaSlide24
environmental impact
May
Thielgaard
Watts (1893-1975)
Reading the Landscape of America
Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
Silent Spring
The Sea Around Us
Anne
Whiston
Spirn
The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design
The Language of Landscape
Elizabeth Meyer
“The Expanded Field of Landscape Architecture” "Post-Earth Day Conundrum: Translating Environmental Values into Landscape Design”Slide25
environmental impact
May
Thielgaard
Watts
Born: May 1st, 1893, Chicago, Illinois
Died: August 20th, 1975, Naperville, Illinois
Education: University of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago
Featured Title:
Reading the Landscape of AmericaSlide26
environmental impact
Rachel Carson
Born: May 27th, 1907, Springdale, Pennsylvania
Died: April 14th, 1964, Silver Spring, Maryland
Education:
Pennsylvania
College for Women (now Chatham University), Johns Hopkins University
Featured
Titles:
Silent Spring
The Sea Around Us
Lost
Woods:
the Discovered Writings of Rachel Carson Slide27
environmental impact
Anne
Whiston
Spirn
Born:
Waterbury
, Connecticut
Education: Radcliff College, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Featured Titles:
The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design
The Language of Landscape
“Poetics of City and Nature: Toward a New Aesthetic for Urban Design”Slide28
environmental impact
Elizabeth Meyer
Education: University of Virginia, Cornell
University
Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia
Featured Titles:
“The Expanded Field of Landscape
Architecture”
"Post-Earth Day Conundrum: Translating Environmental Values into Landscape Design”Slide29
write women – further reading
Berkeley, Ellen Perry, ed. Architecture : A Place for Women. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
Cole, Doris.
From Tipi to Skyscraper : A History of Women in Architecture.
Boston: i press; distributed by G.
Braziller
, New York, 1973.
Favro
, Diane. "Women Write: The Shaping of American Architecture by Female Authors."
Architecture California
v.18, n.2 (1996-1997): 40-51.
Norwood, Vera. Made From This Earth: American Women and Nature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Oldershaw, Barbara. "Developing a Feminist Critique of Architecture." Design Book Review n.25 (1992): 7-15.Sherman, Claire Richter, ed. Women as Interpreters of the Visual Arts. 1820-1979 Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981. Torre, Susana, ed. Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1977. Van
Slyck
, Abigail A. "Women in Architecture and the Problem of Biography."
Design Book Review n.25 (1992): 19-22. Wright, Gwendolyn. “On the Fringe of the Profession: Women in American Architecture.” In
The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession
, edited by Spiro
Kostoff
, 208-308. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.