The Association for Women in Architecture was (is) active
in New York City beginning about 1970. Two of the writers cited
by Anne Boynton were members or otherwise sympathetically
affiliated: Ellen Berkeley (member) and Dolores Hayden (SA).
Susan Torre, Marjorie Hoog, and Berkeley were the founders,
I believe.
Another was the China Study Group, a group of NYC women
architects and others who met regularly for some months to
prepare themselves for one of the early visits to China when it
opened to Westerners in the 1970s, and continued afterwards
to lecture and promote Chinese relations. Hoog administered the
group, which included Adele Chatfield-Taylor (now head of the
American Academy in Rome) and other adventurers in the
Amazon Jungle.
Hoog would be the best source for more information on these two
groups and could provide documents and other contacts for
researchers. She now practices with Beckhard-Richlan (Breuer's
successor) in NYC; tel: 212-244-5050. No e-mail address that I know.
Some incidental chaff: Hoog and Chatfield-Taylor
(http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/amacadmy/Amacadmy.html), among
other exceptional women designers, were (are) dutifuls of Urban
Deadline. See:
http://jya.com/udlist.htm
Editor Ellen Berkeley gave Urban Deadline a boost with an 1970 article
in Architectural Forum by Chatfield-Taylor. See:
http://jya.com/afpat.htm
Lastly, for effect, I cite the extraordinary work of Deborah Natsios on this
list <dn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> who has been practising and teaching in NYC
and elsewhere for 15 years. See links to her recent cosmologies at:
http://jya.com/nya.htm
The future of design and architecture and landscape and the environment
resides in wily women who are taking key spots around the globe, take note
gents. Watch the design leadership fill with outstanding women coaxing the
canon-mesmerized and impractitioners into adventures of unexplored territories
far beyond fake-cockfighting of VRML-Urb, -Nurb and -Diz.
Let's hear more from all of them here: what's coming?
in New York City beginning about 1970. Two of the writers cited
by Anne Boynton were members or otherwise sympathetically
affiliated: Ellen Berkeley (member) and Dolores Hayden (SA).
Susan Torre, Marjorie Hoog, and Berkeley were the founders,
I believe.
Another was the China Study Group, a group of NYC women
architects and others who met regularly for some months to
prepare themselves for one of the early visits to China when it
opened to Westerners in the 1970s, and continued afterwards
to lecture and promote Chinese relations. Hoog administered the
group, which included Adele Chatfield-Taylor (now head of the
American Academy in Rome) and other adventurers in the
Amazon Jungle.
Hoog would be the best source for more information on these two
groups and could provide documents and other contacts for
researchers. She now practices with Beckhard-Richlan (Breuer's
successor) in NYC; tel: 212-244-5050. No e-mail address that I know.
Some incidental chaff: Hoog and Chatfield-Taylor
(http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/amacadmy/Amacadmy.html), among
other exceptional women designers, were (are) dutifuls of Urban
Deadline. See:
http://jya.com/udlist.htm
Editor Ellen Berkeley gave Urban Deadline a boost with an 1970 article
in Architectural Forum by Chatfield-Taylor. See:
http://jya.com/afpat.htm
Lastly, for effect, I cite the extraordinary work of Deborah Natsios on this
list <dn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> who has been practising and teaching in NYC
and elsewhere for 15 years. See links to her recent cosmologies at:
http://jya.com/nya.htm
The future of design and architecture and landscape and the environment
resides in wily women who are taking key spots around the globe, take note
gents. Watch the design leadership fill with outstanding women coaxing the
canon-mesmerized and impractitioners into adventures of unexplored territories
far beyond fake-cockfighting of VRML-Urb, -Nurb and -Diz.
Let's hear more from all of them here: what's coming?