Influential Women Writers: A Library Display

1. write women August-December 2010

2. write women August-December 2010 A library in search of a decent display

3. write women August-December 2010 A library in search of a decent display process content

4. Typical display add water lecture literature

5. Department work plan collaborative diversity project in depth display engage Arch & LArch departments part time staff asking for creative tasks

6. 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 space historical criticism urban design environmental impact

7. research & writing content Darla & Mackenzie editing & tweaking Stephanie & Tim creating & assembling Mackenzie, Megan D, Siti, Anne & Tim publicity PRaM – brochure & Interview Collegian, Nov. 9th 2010 timeline started research in Feb 2010 opened in Aug 2010 closed end of Dec 2010

8. write women feminist space historical criticism urban design environmental impact

9. 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 Ourland Beatriz Colomina Domesticity at War The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism in Sexuality and Space

10. 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 Stowe

11. 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 Reader

12. 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 Ourland Charlotte 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, 1895

13. feminist space Beatriz Colomina Education: EscolaTécnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona Professor of History and Theory, Princeton University Featured Titles: Domesticity at War Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism in Sexuality and Space

14. 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?

15. 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

16. 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, 1876-1925

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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 Nations

22. 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 Concepts

23. urban design Setha Low Education: PitzerCollege & 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 America

24. environmental impact May Thielgaard Watts (1893-1975) Reading the Landscape of America Rachel Carson (1907-1964) Silent Spring The Sea Around Us Anne WhistonSpirn 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”

25. 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 America

26. 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

27. environmental impact Anne WhistonSpirn 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”

28. 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”

29. 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.