"Glass Ceilings: Highlights from the International Archive of Women in Architecture Center," selected exhibit panels, 2010

Pettersen, Eleanore, 1916-2003

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Eleanore K. Pettersen entered Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art in New York City in 1937 intent on studying painting; but, her first drafting course changed her focus and she emerged in 1941 with a Certificate in Architecture. Following Cooper Union she apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin from 1941 to 1943. After leaving the communal environment of Taliesin, where Pettersen comments that she “was never without a bandage the whole time,” she worked on variou...

Channel, Mary Brown, 1907-2006

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Mary Ramsay Brown Channel was born December 8, 1907 to William Ambrose Brown and Mary Ramsay Brown of Portsmouth, VA. She attended Randolph-Macon’s Woman's College earning a bachelor of Mathematics in 1929. Channel wanted to follow her brother to the University of Virginia to study architecture, but women were not accepted into the University's graduate programs at the time. She instead applied and was accepted to Cornell University School of Architecture. Gr...

Vinciarelli, Lauretta

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Willis, Beverly, 1928-....

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Architect. Member, International Fraternity of Lambda Alpha, Golden Gate Chapter. From the description of Beverly A. Willis publications, 1965-1977. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64072612 Beverly Willis, FAIA Architect, artist, and writer, was one of perhaps three women architects in the United States to own her own sizeable architecture firm between 1958 and 1990 and the only woman in San Francisco, California, to ha...

Schroeder, Han, 1918-1992

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Skala, Lilia Sofer

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Hastings, L. Jane

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Weström, Hilde

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Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916

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Author and lecturer. From the description of Clara Erskine Clement Waters correspondence, 1887 February 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981221 ...

Harkness, Sarah Pillsbury

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Dunay, Donna

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"Glass Ceilings: Highlights from the International Archive of Women in Architecture" was developed in partnership with Virginia Tech’s International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) Center and the Virginia Center for Architecture (VCA),in in recognition of Minds Wide Open, the statewide initiative celebrating women in the arts. The exhibition was held at the Virginia Center for Architecture in Richmond, Virginia, as part of their Dominion Exhibition Series and was on display ...

Tyng, Anne Griswold, 1920-2011

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Anne Griswold Tyng (July 14, 1920- December 27, 2011) was an architect and professor. She is best known for her three decade collaboration and partnership with Louis I. Kahn. Tyng graduated with a B. Arch from the Radcliffe-Harvard College (1942) and later received her Masters from Harvard Graduate School of Design (1944). She had the unique experience of being at the heart of three architectural movements: "Bauhaus Renaissance" at Harvard, Buckminster Fuller's exploration of innova...

Currie, Virginia M. Herz

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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...

Nakahara, Nobuko

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Hayden, Florence Kenyon

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Schütte-Lihotzky, Margarete

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Smithson, Alison Margaret

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Alison Margaret Smithson (1928-1993), and Peter Denham Smithson (1923-2003) were among the most influential British architects of the latter half of the 20th century. They developed an eloquent and rigorous approach to architecture and urbanism, expressed in both practice and writing. They married in 1949 and set up a practice together that was to be one of the most remarkable British architectural partnerships, notable for such landmarks as the Hunstanton Secondary Modern School in Norfolk (194...

Gottlieb, Lois Davidson

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Lois Davidson Gottlieb is a residential designer currently (2010) based in San Francisco, California. She was born on November 13,1926 in San Francisco and attended Stanford University from 1944 to 1947, where she studied art and engineering and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. She served as an apprentice to famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright from 1948 to 1949 as part of the Taliesin Fellowship in Spring Green, Wisconsin and Scottsdale, Arizona. And she did her graduate work at Har...

Somaya, Brinda

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Brinda Somaya, India's 2000 Designer of the Year, is a conservationist, post-modernist, abstract minimalist, and urban activist from Bombay. She received an architectural degree from the Sir JJ College of Architecture and a Master of Arts degree from Smith College, Massachusetts, USA. With her sister Ranjini, opened Somaya and Kalappa in 1976. Today her offices are in Mumbai and Bangalore. She is founder trustee of the The Hecar Foundation which was created to educate the public abo...