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Women in the History of the Campus Built Environment


Women in the History of the Campus Built Environment

The University of Oregon has a rich history of women that is reflected in the campus built environment. This tour takes you throughout the campus, highlighting.

Women's History Month: Notable Women in Architecture

The first female to break the glass ceiling of architecture did not occur until 1879, when Mary Louisa Page became the first woman in North ...

The Women Who Changed Architecture - Dwell Magazine

Even before editor and historian Jan Cigliano Hartman began studying the history of architecture in the 1970s, she was well aware of the ...

International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA): Home

The IAWA was established in 1985 as a joint program of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and the University Libraries at Virginia ...

“Serious Work”: The Women Who Taught Architecture

As some of these early women-only design schools began producing graduates, several schools started to hire their own graduates to teach, ...

Unpacking the Erasure of Women of Color in Architecture

While navigating systems of racial discrimination and gender disparity, architects Minnette De Silva, Amaza Lee Meredith, and Urmila Eulie ...

WOMEN AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT - DalSpace

women in the production of architecture. Tradition- ally, history and theory courses in architecture follow a standard approach which deals with great men ...

WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE

In 1891, the first woman graduated from Cornell University with a degree in architecture. A decade later Sophia Hayden graduated from the Massachusetts ...

Celebrating Present and Historical Queer Identities ... - SCI-Arc

Birkby discusses the Women's School of Planning and Architecture which she co-founded “to merge feminist values of the early 1970s with the ...

5 Female Architects Who Shaped the History of Architecture

Marion Mahony Griffin, (1871-1961). An artist, one of the first licensed female architects in the world. An American architect graduated from MIT university in ...

Pioneering Paths: A Brief History of Women in Construction

Construction is an age-old profession, and women have played a part in shaping the built environment since ancient times. In ancient Egypt ...

Exploring the Lived Experience of Women Architects

We've written several posts in this blog about people and collections related to the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA). It ...

Building on the Past: A History of Women in Architecture

By 1950, women had established a significant history in American architecture. However, it would be several more decades before the effort to ...

Introduction | Pioneering Women of American Architecture

The scholars who worked on these profiles represent one of the largest groups ever to focus exclusively on women's contributions to the U.S. built environment ...

Women in Architecture: Learning from the Past to Change the Future

Louise Blanchard Bethune, Marion. Mahony, Julia Morgan, Denise Scott Brown, and Beverly Willis were talented, multi- faceted architects who created notable ...

Women and the Designed Environment: Dealing with Difference - jstor

richer history of the built environment as a shifting and contested response by designers to issues not just of gender but also of class, culture and ...

Celebrating Women's History Month - Building Enclosure

I graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Design in Architecture in 2008 during the economic crisis, which in a lot of ways, ...

5 Women at the Forefront of Shifts in Architecture Education

As the A&D community continues to evaluate roadblocks to equity, the limited number of women in powerful positions, particularly in ...

Women continue to make essential contributions to architecture

In observance of Women's History Month, The Architect's Newspaper—a woman-owned and woman-led company—is celebrating the contributions of ...

Understanding the Gendered Experiences of Women in Architecture ...

As research on STEM-based professions rapidly evolves, research and discourse about women within architecture and construction is still scarce. The architecture ...