Filling the gap.Everyone says there aren't enough women in architecture but where are the celebrations for those women who do make it through the architectural longhouse longhouse Traditional communal dwelling of the Iroquois Indians until the 19th century. The longhouse was a rectangular box built out of poles, with doors at each end and saplings stretched over the top to form the roof, the whole structure being covered with bark. ? One answer is at the International Archive of Women in Architecture The International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA [1]) was established in 1985 as a joint program of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. at http://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA. Started up a decade ago at Virginia Poly and Virginia Tech, it documents the history of women in architecture--professional papers mostly from before 1950. 'Women in architecture' includes landscape architects, designers, historians and critics, and from all over the world. Gae Aulenti's papers are here, plus a lot of Europeans, and Sally Lynn Levine's cv and a 1995 exhibit called 'Alice Through the Glass Ceiling'. Levine was co-founder of Chicks in Architecture Refuse to Yield (CARY). Alice is an acronym acronym: see abbreviation. A word typically made up of the first letters of two or more words; for example, BASIC stands for "Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. for Architecture Lets in Chicks Except ... Monica Pidgeon's biographical bi·o·graph·i·cal also bi·o·graph·ic adj. 1. Containing, consisting of, or relating to the facts or events in a person's life. 2. Of or relating to biography as a literary form. database is there and three drawings by Alison Smithson. Happily, they don't seem to take the 1950 time limit altogether seriously. |
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