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Women and Architecture: Selected Bibliography and Guide to Sources Updated October 2005 Women and Architecture * Women and Interior Design * Women and Landscape Architecture Just arrived Sept. 2008: The First American Women Architects. Arch Bk Stks NA736 .A48 2008

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• Reference Sources
• Library Catalog Searching
• Indexes
• Internet Sites
• Specific Women Architects: Books, Periodical Articles, Film and Video
• Women and the Profession: Books, Periodical Articles, Film and Video
• Architecture from a Woman's Perspective: Books, Periodical Articles

Reference Sources

Hinding, Andrea, ed. Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States. New York: Bowker, 1979.
Lied Ref. Z7964.U49 W64 v. 1-2.

Placzek, Adolf K., ed. MacMillan Encyclopedia of Architects. New York: Free Press, 1982.
Arch. Ref. NA40.M25 1982 v. 1-4.

Sharp, Dennis., ed. Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1991.
Arch. Ref. NA40.I45 1991.

Brief biographies on some prominent women architects of the late 19th or early 20th centuries can be located in the works devoted to women's history. Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States was among the best. However, the majority of the information available will be found in the materials devoted to architects rather than to women. The MacMillan Encyclopedia of Architects is more limited due to its 1982 publication date. For a more comprehensive list of Reference Sources, see the Dictionaries and Encyclopedia section of the UNLV Library Research Guide to Architects. http://www.library.unlv.edu/arch/rsrce/resguide/archtect.html

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Library Catalog Searching

Library of Congress Subject Headings related to this topic include:
Architecture and Women
Women and City Planning
Women Architects
Women Landscape Architects
Women Owned Architectural Firms Management
Women's Studies
Feminism
Women in the Professions,
Space (Architecture)

with various subheadings such as United States and Biography, History, and Criticism.

Information for a specific woman architect can be located by Subject and Author using the name of the particular woman such as: Morgan Julia

Keyword Searches can be helpful to locate a chapter on a specific woman architect or women in architecture that may be included in a volume on many architects. Try keyword: Julia Morgan. Or try keyword: feminist architecture or women space architecture.

Keyword Searches can also be used to locate a related chapter that may be included in a volume on women's studies. Try keywords: feminist architecture or gender space.

Refer to the UNLV Library Research Guide to Architects for additional search strategies. http://www.library.unlv.edu/arch/rsrce/resguide/archtect.html

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Indexes

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals.
1934- online.

Avery Obituary Index of Architects. 1980- .
Arch. Microforms Z5943.A69 A93 1980b.

Biography Index. 1946-present. Print format at Lied Library Reference Index Area.

A list of additional indexes can be found in the UNLV Library Research Guide to Architects. http://www.library.unlv.edu/arch/rsrce/resguide/archtect.html

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Internet Sites

Sites on individual architects include:

Julia Morgan Papers at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

For additional Internet sites by and about women architects, refer to category "women". http://www.library.unlv.edu/arch/rsrce/webrsrce/index.html

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Specific Women Architects: Books

Adam, Peter. Eileen Gray : Architect/Designer: A Biography. Rev. ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000.
Arch Bk Stks NA 1053 G73 A83 2000 ( Additional titles )

The architect : women in contemporary architecture. New York: Watson-Guptill ; Mulgrave, Australia : Images, 2001.
Arch Bk Stks NA1997.A73 2001.

Gebhard, David. Lutah Maria Riggs: A Woman in Architecture, 1921-1980. Santa Barbara: Capra Press in cooperation with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1992.
Arch Bk Stks NA737.R54 G4 1992.

Hadid, Zaha and Yukio Futagawa. Zaha M. Hadid. Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1995.
Arch Bk Stks NA1469.H25 A4 1995. ( Additional titles )

Huisman, Jaap… [et al]. Beth Gali: Architecture and Design 1966-1998. ‘s-Hertogenbosch: Museum Het Kruithuis, c1998.
Arch Bk Stks NA 1313 G227 A4 1998

Kostof, Spiro. “On the Fringe of the Profession: Women in American Architecture.” Chap. 10 in The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). 280-308.
Arch Bk Stks NA 1995 A73 2000

Marshall, Anne. Carme Pinos. Champaign, IL: School of Architecture, University of Illinois, 1995.
Arch Bk Stks NA1313.P56 A4 1995. ( Additional titles )

Miss, Mary. Mary Miss: A Catalogue Published to Accompany an Installation at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 20 April - 29 May, 1983. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1983.
Arch Bk Stks NB237.M57 A4x 1983. ( Additional titles )

Oliveira, Olivia Fernandesde, and Lina Bo Bardi. Lina Bo Bardi : Obra Construida = built work . Barcelona: G. Gili, 2002.
Arch Bk Stks NA 859 B37 O45 2002 ( Additional titles ) Also try a keyword search to find books with chapter information on or by this individual.

Wadsworth, Ginger. Julia Morgan, Architect of Dreams. Minneapolis: Lerner, 1990.
Arch Bk Stks NA737.M68 W33 1990. ( Additional titles )

Willis, Beverly. Invisible images : the silent language of architecture and the selected works of Beverly Willis Washington, D.C.: National Building Museum, 1997.
Arch Bk Stks NA737.W528 A4 1997.

Zenghelis, Zoe and Marina Vaizey. Zoe Zenghelis: Shapes in Space. London: Academy Editions, 1992.
Arch Bk Stks NA1103.Z45 A4 1992.

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Specific Women Architects: Periodical Articles

Bradley, L. "Elizabeth Rivard of Kansas City: Pioneer in a Man's World." AIA Journal 65 (June 1976): 49-50.

Campbell, Robert. "Eleanor Raymond: Early and Domitable." AIA Journal 71 (January 1982): 52-53.

"Chicago Women in Architecture." (Chicago Historical Society, thru March 17, 1985, Review by Stuart Cohen.) Progressive Architecture 66 (January 1985): 30.

Davis, D. "Designing Women; Brooklyn Museum Exhibition, Women in American Architecture." Newsweek 89 (March 1977): 79-80.

Dean, Andrea O. "Women in Architecture: Individual Profiles and a Discussion of Issues." AIA Journal 71 (January 1982): 42-51.

Failing, Patricia. "She Was America's Most Successful Woman Architect and Hardly Anybody Knows Her Name (Julia Morgan)" Artnews 80 (January 1981): 66-71.

Favro, Diane. "Sincere and Good: The Architectural Practice of Julia Morgan." Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 9-2 (Summer 1992): 112-128.

"Four Fine Fellows." AIA Journal 52 (September 1969): 86-87.

Larson, Paul Clifford. "Women Pioneers." Architecture Minnesota 23, no. 4 (July-Aug. 1997): 32-33, 45-46.

Lobell, John. "American Women Architects." Art Forum 151 (Summer 1977): 28-33.

Longstreth, R. W. "Julia Morgan; Some Introductory Notes." Perspecta 15 (1975): 74-86.

McLeod, Mary. “Reflections on Feminism and Modern Architecture.” Harvard Design Magazine 20 (Spring/Summer 2004): 64-67.
Arch Periodicals NA 2300 H34 G79x (article focuses on Charlotte Perriand)

McGuire, Penny. "Women on Show". Architectural Review 202, no. 1205 (July 1987):9-10.

Molten, Philip L. "Asilomar: One of the Best Preserved Works of Julia Morgan, California's Pioneer Woman Architect." Architectural Review 157 (February 1975): 123-124.

"MOMA Shows the '20s Avant-Garde Work of Eileen Gray." Architectural Record 167 (March 1980): 37.

Osman, Mary E. "Julia Morgan of California: A Passion for Quality and Anonymity." AIA Journal 56 (November 1971): 62.

Rochlin, Harriet. "Distinguished Generation of Women Architects in California." AIA Journal 66 (August 1977): 38-42.

________. "From High Rises to Restaurants: Seven Architects Break Ground." Ms 5 (December 1976): 10+.

Schmertz, Mildred F. "Learning from Denise: The Role in Architecture of Denise Scott Brown." Architectural Record 170-9 (July 1982): 102-107.

Tilley, Ray Don. "Texas Pioneers: Portfolio of Texas Firms." Architecture 80-10 (October 1991): 58-67.

Treib, Marc. "Women Architects Shown in Finland." Progressive Architecture 64-1 (January 1983): 33.

"A Thousand Women in Architecture." Architectural Record 103 (March 1948): 105-113: (June 1948).

Watt, Joanna. "Where Credit's Due." Perspectives on Architecture 4, no. 29 (June-July 1997): 34-41.

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Specific Women Architects: Film and Video

Walsh, Margo Grant. Margo Grant Walsh. Klai::Juba Lecture Series / UNLV School of Architecture. 66 min. 2003.
Videocassette. Arch Media NA 737 W2657 A2 2003

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Women and the Profession: Books

Adams, Annmarie and Peta Tancred. Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2000.
Arch Bk Stks NA 1997 A32 2000

New!
Allaback, Sara. The First American Women Architects. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.
Arch Bk Stks NA736 .A48 2008

Anderson, Dorothy May. Women, Design, and the Cambridge School. West Lafayette, Ind.: PDA Publishers Corp., 1980.
Arch Bk Stks NA2300.C25 A52 1980.

Anthony, Kathyrn H. Designing for Diversity: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Architectural Profession. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Arch Bk Stks NA 1997 A56 2001

Bay, Helle, et al. Women in Danish Architecture. Kobenhavn: Arkitektens, 1991.
Arch Bk Stks NA1997.W66 1991.

Berkeley, Ellen Perry., ed. Architecture: A Place for Women. Washington: Smithsonian institution Press, 1989.
Arch Bk Stks NA1997.A74 1989.

Cole, Doris. From Tipi to Skyscraper; A History of Women in Architecture. New York: G. Braziller, 1973.
Arch Bk Stks NA1997.C57 1973.

Cole, Doris. Candid reflections : letters from women in architecture 1972 & 2004. New York : Midmarch Arts Press, 2007.
Arch Bk Stks NA1997.C64 2007.

Elliott, Cecil D. “Civil War to World War I: Strengthening the Profession/Women Architects.” Part III:7 and
“World War I to Present: Adaptation to Extremes/Women in Architecture.” Part IV:4
in The American Architect from the Colonial Era to the Present (Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 2003). 81-82.
Arch Bk Stks NA 1995 E48 2003

Hughes, Francesca. The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996.
Arch Bk Stks NA1997.A68 1996.

Kostof, Spiro. “On the Fringe of the Profession: Women in American Architecture.” Chap. 10 in The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). 280-308.
Arch Bk Stks NA 1995 A73 2000

Lorenz, Clare. Women in Architecture: A Contemporary Perspective. New York: Rizzoli, 1990.
Arch Bk Stks NA1997.L67 1990.

Markelin, Ulla, et al. Profiles, Pioneering Women Architects from Finland. Helsinki: Museum of Finnish Architecture, 1983.
Arch Bk Stks NA1455.F5 P76x 1983.

Pinet, Celine and Kimberly Devlin, eds. Threads, Insights by Women Architects. Milwaukee, WI: Center for Architecture and Urban Planning.
Arch Bk Stks NA1997.T57 1991.

"That Exceptional One": Women in American Architecture, 1888-1988. Washington, D.C.: American Architectural foundation, 1988.
Arch Bk Stks NA1997.T47x 1988.

Ruedi, Katerina, Sarah Wigglesworth, Duncan McCorquodale (eds). Desiring Practices: Architecture, Gender, and the Interdisciplinary. London: Black Dog Pub., 1996.
Arch Bk Stks NA2543.W65 D47 1996.

Searing, Helen. Equal Partners: Men and Women Principals in Contemporary Architectural Practice. Northampton: Smith College Museum of Art, 1998.
Arch Bk Stks NA 712 S42 1998

Torre, Susana, ed. Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1977.
Arch Bk Stks NA1997.W65.

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Women and the Profession: Periodical Articles

Architecture (October 1991): issue.

Cole, Doris. "The Education of Women Architects: A History of the Cambridge School." Architecture Plus 1 (December 1973): 30-35, 78-79.

Despres, Carole. "Revisiting Knowledge and Practice: Women's Voices in Architecture and Urban Planning." Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 9-2 (Summer 1992): 91-94.

Dietsch, Deborah. "Women at Columbia: A Century of Change." Progressive Architecture 63 (June 1982): 22-23.

Dixon, John Morris. "Editorial: Women's Place." Progressive Architecture 58 (March 1977): 7.

Grabenhorst-Randall, Terree. "The Woman's Building (World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892)." Heresies 1-4 (Winter 1978): 44-46.

Greer, Nora Richter. "Women in Architecture: Changes Over Time." Architecture: The AIA Journal 77-11 (November 1988): 106-109.

Groat, Linda N. and Sherry B. Ahrentzen. "Voices for Change in Architectural Education." Journal of Architectural Education 50, no. 4 (May 1997): 271-285.

Hurt, N. Jane. "The Emergence of New Voices: Women in Architecture." In Transcending Boundaries. Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to the Study of Gender, ed. Pamela R. Frese and John M. Coggeshall, 151-178. New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1991. HQ1075 T75 1991.

"Major Exhibition on Women in Architecture Opens in Brooklyn." Architectural Record 161 (March 1977): 38.

Pawley, Martin. "Martin Pawley Has Dangerous Thoughts About Women in Architecture." RIBA Journal 98-5 (May 1991): 103.

Salmon, Karen. "Exhibitions Highlight Architecture by Women." Architecture 80-10 (October 1991): 21-22.

Solomon, Nancy B. "Women in Corporate Firms: The Top Positions in Large Offices Aren't Just for Men Anymore." Architecture 80-10 (October 1991): 79-87.

Stephens,Suzanne. “Not Only Zaha,” Architectural Record 194 (December, 2006) : 58-62,64,66,68. http://archrecord.construction.com/practice/archives/articles/0612zaha-1.asp (last accessed 2/07)

Taylor, Brian Brace. "Woman in Design." Mimar: Architecture in Development 2 (October/December 1981): 27-54.

"A Thousand Women in Architecture." Architectural Record 103 (March 1948): 105-113; (June 1948).

Walker, L. "The Entry of Women Into the Architectural Profession in Britain." Woman's Art Journal 7 (Spring-Summer 1986): 13-18.

Whitman, Paula. "Going Places." Architecture Australia 95, no.1 (January 2006): 47-53.

"The Woman Behind the T Square." Progressive Architecture 58 (March 1977): 37-57.

"Women Architecture Students Meet in St. Louis." Architectural Record 155 (May 1974): 35.

"Women Delete 'Women' from AIA Resolutions." Progressive Architecture 57 (June 1976): 23-24.

"Women in Architecture." Progressive Architecture 58 (March 1977): 37-57.

"Women in Architecture and Design: An Historic and Contemporary Perspective: Brooklyn Museum." Interiors 136 (March 1977): 4.

"Women in Design." Design and Environment 5 (Spring 1974) .

Zimmerman, Anne. "Women and Architecture." Architecture: The AIA Journal 79-4 (April 1990): 36.

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Women and the Profession: Film and Videos

Architecture from a Woman's Perspective: Books

Ahrentzen, Sherry. "The F Word in Architecture: Feminist Analyses in/of/for Architecture." In Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourses and Social Practices, ed. Thomas A. Dutton and Lian Hurst Mann, 71-118. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Arch Bk Stks NA1996 R33 1996.

Ahrentzen, Sherry and Linda N. Groat. “Interdisciplinary Visions of Architectural Education: The Perspectives of Faculty Women.” Chap. 11 in The Discipline of Architecture. Andrej Piotrowski and Julia Williams Robinson, Eds. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2001). 235-259.
Arch Bk Stks NA 2750 D485 2001.

Betsky, Aaron. Building Sex: Men, Women, and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: William Morrow, 1995.
Arch Bk Stks NA2543.W65 B48 1995.

Coleman, Debra. Architecture and Feminism. NY:Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.
Arch Bk Stks NA2543.F45 A73 1996.

Drucker, Susan J. Voices in the Street: Explorations in Gender, Media, and Public Space. Cresskill: Hampton Press, 1997.
Arch Bk Stks HT153.V65 1997.

Durning, Louise and Richard Wrigley. Ed. Gender and Architecture. Chichester; New York: Wiley, 2000.
Arch Bk Stks NA 2543 W65 G455 2000

Friedman, Alice T. Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History. NY: Abrams, 1998.
Arch Bk Stks NA2543.W65 F75 1998.

Goldfrank, Janice. Women Builders & Designers. Making Ourselves at Home. California: Papier-Mache Press, 1995.
Arch Bk Stks NA1997.M35 1995.

Hayden, Dolores. The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1981.
Arch Bk Stks HQ1426 H33.

Kennedy, Margrit I. "Toward a Rediscovery of 'Feminine' Principles in Architecture and Planning." In Women in Futures Research, ed. Margrit Eichler and Hilda Scott, 75-81. New York: Pergamon Press, 1982.
Arch Bk Stks HQ1397 W664 1982.

Martin, Brenda and Penny Sparke. Women’s Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960. London; New York: Routledge, 2003.
Arch Bk Stks NA 1997 W67 2003.

Matrix Organization. Making Space. Women and the Man-Made Environment. London: Pluto Press, 1985.
Arch Bk Stks NA2543 W65 M35 1985.

Roberts, Marion. Living in a Man-Made World. Gender Assumptions in Modern Housing Design. New York: Routledge, 1990.
Arch Bk Stks NA2543 W65 R64 1990.

Rothschild, Joan…[et al]. Ed. Design and Feminism: Re-visioning Spaces, Places, and Everyday Things. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Arch Bk Stks NA 2543 F45 D47 1999

Spain, Daphne. Gendered Spaces. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Arch Bk Stks HQ1150 S68 1992.

Weisman, Leslie Kanes. "Designing Differences. Women and Architecture." In The Knowledge Explosion. Generations of Feminist Scholarship, ed. Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender, 310-321. New York: Teachers College Press, 1992.
Lied Bk Stks HQ1397 K63 1992.

________. Discrimination by Design. A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
Arch Bk Stks NA2543 W65 W45 1992.

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Architecture from a Woman's Perspective: Periodical Articles

Corroto, Carla. “The Politics of Masculinity and Sacred Space.” Journal of Architectural Education 55 no 2 (November 2001) 113-117.
Arch Periodicals NA1 J77

"Female Conditions and Living Conditions." Casabella 467 (March 1981): issue. (In Italian)

Marcus, Elizabeth Roper. "WSPA Theme is Social Change." Progressive Architecture 59 (October 1978): 22+.
Abstract: Highlights 3rd session of the Women's School of Planning & Architecture. This network promotes change through planning and architecture.

Salmon, Karen. "Exhibitions Highlight Architecture by Women." Architecture 80-10 (October 1991): 21-22.

Sandercock, Leonie and Ann Forsyth. "A Gender Agenda: New Directions for Planning Theory." Journal of the American Planning Association 58-1 (Winter 1992): 49-59.

Sheine, Judith. "California Architects Discuss Sexual Politics." Architecture 81-4 (April 1992): 24.

Wright, Gwendolyn. "The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities by Dolores Hayden." Journal of Architectural Education 36 (Winter 1982): 31-32.

Women and Environments (Canada). HQ1233 W58. This journal is devoted to evaluating and featuring architecture designed by or for women.

"Women, Space and Cultural Changes." Architecture & Comportement = Architecture & Behavior 8-2 (1992): issue.

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