write women August-December 2010 A library in search of a
decent display
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write women August-December 2010 A library in search of a
decent display process content
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Typical display add water lecture literature
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Department work plan collaborative diversity project in depth
display engage Arch & LArch departments part time staff asking
for creative tasks
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selecting theme influential women writers initial research
& list Henry, Stephanie & Tim 10 authors polling faculty
& staff 46 authors from 12 faculty paring list down 21 authors
4 categories feminist space historical criticism urban design
environmental impact
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research & writing content Darla & Mackenzie editing
& tweaking Stephanie & Tim creating & assembling
Mackenzie, Megan D, Siti, Anne & Tim publicity PRaM brochure
& Interview Collegian, Nov. 9 th 2010 timeline started research
in Feb 2010 opened in Aug 2010 closed end of Dec 2010
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write women feminist space historical criticism urban design
environmental impact
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feminist space Catharine Beecher (1800-1878) The American
Womans Home Jane Addams (1860-1935) Twenty Years at Hull-House The
Second Twenty Years at Hull- House Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(1860-1935) The Home: Its Work and Influence Utopian Novels: Moving
the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland Beatriz Colomina
Domesticity at War The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism in Sexuality
and Space
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feminist space Catharine Esther Beecher Born: Sept. 6th, 1800,
East Hampton, NY Died: May 12th, 1878, Elmira, New York Education:
Litchfield Female Academy Featured Titles: A Treatise on Domestic
Economy Miss Beechers Housekeeper and Healthkeeper The American
Womans Home - with Harriet Beecher Stowe
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feminist space Jane Addams Born: Sept. 6th, 1860, Cedarville,
Illinois Died: May 21st, 1935 Chicago, Illinois Education: Rockford
Female Seminary (now Rockford College) Featured Titles: Twenty
Years at Hull-House The Second Twenty Years at Hull- House Jane
Addams: A Centennial Reader
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feminist space Charlotte Perkins Gilman Born: July 3rd, 1860,
Hartford, Connecticut Died: Aug. 17th, 1935, Pasadena, California
Education: Rhode Island School of Design Featured Titles: The Home:
its Work and Influence Utopian Novels: Moving the Mountain Herland
With Her in Ourland Charlotte Perkins Gilman : a nonfiction reader
"The Home is Just a Place to Hang Things Up In. Cartoon mocking
Gilman's architectural proposals, San Francisco Examiner, May 22,
1895
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feminist space Beatriz Colomina Education: Escola Tcnica
Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona Professor of History and
Theory, Princeton University Featured Titles: Domesticity at War
Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media The Split
Wall: Domestic Voyeurism in Sexuality and Space
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historical criticism Louisa C. Tuthill (1799-1879) History of
Architecture from the Earliest Times Mariana Griswold Van
Rensselaer (1851- 1934) Accents as Well as Broad Effects: Writings
on Architecture, Landscape, and the Environment Henry Hobson
Richardson and His Works Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) The Stones of
Florence Venice Observed Ada Louise Huxtable (1921- ) Goodbye
History, Hello Hamburger Kicked a Building Lately?
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historical criticism Louisa Caroline Tuthill Born: July 6th,
1799, New Haven, Connecticut Died: June 1st, 1879, Princeton, New
Jersey Education: Litchfield Female Academy Featured Title: History
of Architecture from the Earliest Times
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historical criticism Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer Born: Feb.
21st, 1851, New York, New York Died: Jan. 20th, 1934, New York, New
York Featured Titles: Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works Accents
as Well as Broad Effects: Writings on Architecture, Landscape, and
the Environment, 1876-1925
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historical criticism Mary McCarthy Born: June 21st, 1912,
Seattle, Washington Died: Oct. 25th, 1989, New York, New York
Education: Vassar College Featured Titles: The Stones of Florence
Venice Observed
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historical criticism Ada Louise Huxtable Born: March 14th,
1921, New York, New York Education: Hunter College, New York
University Architecture Critic, Wall Street Journal Featured
Titles: On Architecture Goodbye History, Hello Hamburger Kicked a
Building Lately? The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered The
Unreal America : Architecture and Illusion
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urban design Theodora Kimball Hubbard (1887-1935) Our Cities
To-day and To-morrow An Introduction to the Study of Landscape
Design Jane Jacobs (1918-2006) The Death and Life of Great American
Cities Cities and the Wealth of Nations Denise Scott Brown (1931- )
Learning from Las Vegas Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System
in Architecture Setha Low On the Plaza Behind the Gates
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urban design Theodora Kimball Hubbard Born: Feb. 26th, 1887,
Newton, Massachusetts Died: Nov. 8th, 1935, Milton, Massachusetts
Education: Simmons College Featured Titles: Our Cities To-day and
To-morrow An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design
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urban design Jane Jacobs Born: May 4th, 1918, Scranton,
Pennsylvania Died: April 25th, 2006, Toronto, Canada Education:
Scranton Central High School Featured Titles: The Death and Life of
Great American Cities Cities and the Wealth of Nations
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urban design Denise Scott Brown Born: Oct., 3rd, 1931, Nkana,
Northern Rhodesia Education: University of the Witwatersrand (South
Africa) Architectural Association (London) University of
Pennsylvania Partner, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates Featured
Titles: Learning from Las Vegas: the Forgotten Symbolism of
Architectural Form Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in
Architecture Urban Concepts
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urban design Setha Low Education: Pitzer College & UC
Berkeley Professor of Environmental Psychology and Anthropology,
City University of New York Featured Titles: On the Plaza: The
Politics of Public Space and Culture Behind the Gates: Life,
Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America
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environmental impact May Thielgaard Watts (1893-1975) Reading
the Landscape of America Rachel Carson (1907-1964) Silent Spring
The Sea Around Us Anne Whiston Spirn The Granite Garden: Urban
Nature and Human Design The Language of Landscape Elizabeth Meyer
The Expanded Field of Landscape Architecture "Post-Earth Day
Conundrum: Translating Environmental Values into Landscape
Design
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environmental impact May Thielgaard Watts Born: May 1st, 1893,
Chicago, Illinois Died: August 20th, 1975, Naperville, Illinois
Education: University of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Featured
Title: Reading the Landscape of America
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environmental impact Rachel Carson Born: May 27th, 1907,
Springdale, Pennsylvania Died: April 14th, 1964, Silver Spring,
Maryland Education: Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham
University), Johns Hopkins University Featured Titles: Silent
Spring The Sea Around Us Lost Woods: the Discovered Writings of
Rachel Carson
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environmental impact Anne Whiston Spirn Born: Waterbury,
Connecticut Education: Radcliff College, Harvard University,
University of Pennsylvania Professor of Landscape Architecture and
Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Featured Titles:
The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design The Language of
Landscape Poetics of City and Nature: Toward a New Aesthetic for
Urban Design
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environmental impact Elizabeth Meyer Education: University of
Virginia, Cornell University Professor of Landscape Architecture,
University of Virginia Featured Titles: The Expanded Field of
Landscape Architecture "Post-Earth Day Conundrum: Translating
Environmental Values into Landscape Design
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write women further reading Berkeley, Ellen Perry, ed.
Architecture : A Place for Women. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1989. Cole, Doris. From Tipi to Skyscraper : A
History of Women in Architecture. Boston: i press; distributed by
G. Braziller, New York, 1973. Favro, Diane. "Women Write: The
Shaping of American Architecture by Female Authors." Architecture
California v.18, n.2 (1996-1997): 40-51. Norwood, Vera. Made From
This Earth: American Women and Nature. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1993. Oldershaw, Barbara. "Developing a
Feminist Critique of Architecture." Design Book Review n.25 (1992):
7-15. Sherman, Claire Richter, ed. Women as Interpreters of the
Visual Arts. 1820-1979 Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.
Torre, Susana, ed. Women in American Architecture: A Historic and
Contemporary Perspective. New York: Whitney Library of Design,
1977. Van Slyck, Abigail A. "Women in Architecture and the Problem
of Biography." Design Book Review n.25 (1992): 19-22. Wright,
Gwendolyn. On the Fringe of the Profession: Women in American
Architecture. In The Architect: Chapters in the History of the
Profession, edited by Spiro Kostoff, 208-308. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2000.