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Photo credit: Adam Bell © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Left to right: Suzannah Lessard, Moderator, with panelists, Gwendolyn Wright and Carol Gilligan.

The Architecture of Writing: Wright, Women & Narrtive.

On June 10, 2009, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum co-presented with the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation a sold-out evening program, “The Architecture of Writing: Wright Women and Narrative,” as part of the Guggenheim’s 50th anniversary celebration. Moderator Suzannah Lessard with panelists Gwendolyn Wright and Carol Gilligan explored the how and why writers choose or avoid a particular aspect of their narrative. How, they asked, could such an important legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright – the 100 women who worked in his studio – remain overlooked or ignored.

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Architectural Record Magazine Interview: Beverly Willis, FAIA
Watch an interview with BWAF founder Beverly Willis, published in Architectural Record online, October 17, 2007. Read the accompanying article here.

"A Girl Is A Fellow Here" ~100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright

The15-minute documentary film that explores an unknown legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright. Produced by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, the film premiered with great applause on June 10, 2009, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The film tells the story of how six women, Marion Mahony, Isabel Roberts, Jane Duncombe, Lois Davidson Gottlieb, Eleanore Pettersen and Read Weber, worked and went on to distinguished careers of their own.

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Photo credit: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, Taliesin West

Architects and apprentices in the Taliesin West drafting room, ca. 1962

The Dynamic National Archive is the first stage of an ongoing project to catalog the names, biographies, and work of female architects and designers who have contributed to the development of 20th-century architecture in the United States. This is an open, collaborative effort and we invite you to participate.
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