Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective
Susana Torre (Editor)
Whitney Library of Design, 1977

Hardcover | 8-1/4 x 11 inches | 224 pages | 250 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-0823074853 | $25.00

ORGANIZER'S DESCRIPTION:
In 1977, The Architectural League, through its recently established Archive of Women in Architecture, organized a book entitled Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective in conjunction with an exhibition by the same name. Guided primarily by Susana Torre with support from other founding members of the Archive, the book aimed to present the range and quality of women?s work, as both practitioners and commentators, in the fields of architecture, planning, and design. Following an introduction by Susana Torre, the book is divided into five parts with chapters contributed by thirteen women well known in architectural journalism. They delve into how professional women have designed for and written about women as workers in the home, describe the varied careers of women architects from the mid-19th century through the 1960s, explore the position of women as architectural critics through four women?s careers, analyze the contemporary perspective of women in the profession in 1977, and summarize women?s spatial symbolism. Essays by Susan Fondiler Berkon, Sara Boutelle, Doris Cole, Dolores Hayden, Carolyn Johnson, Naomi Leff, Lucy R. Lippard, Jane McGroarty, Judith Paine, Suzanne Stephens, Mary Otis S...