Susana Torre Architectural Collection, 1830-2003, bulk dates 1967-2003

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Susana Torre Architectural Collection, 1830-2003, bulk dates 1967-2003

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00175.xml

After earning her degree in architecture in Buenos Aires, Argentinean Susana Torre arrived in New York in 1968 to study and practice architecture. Women's place in architecture and renovation of buildings are topics of particular interest to her. The Susana Torre collection consists of professional correspondence, project files, architectural drawings and sketches of some of her works, research notes, published articles about and by Torre, and teaching notes.

26.4 cu. ft.,; 23 boxes, 28 oversize folders, 3 framed drawings, and 1 model

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Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Torre, Susana, 1944-

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Susana Torre was the first woman to be appointed head of Cranbrook Academy of Art and also the first architect appointed since founder Eliel Saarinen. Torre was the fourth of six vice-presidents to leave Cranbrook in 1995. From the description of Susana Torre papers, 1994-1996 (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 657334903 Susana Torre was born in 1944 in Argentina and graduated from the University of Buenos Aires with a degree in architecture and addit...