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Architecture of Writing, Part II: BWAF Fellows' Colloquium
at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June 11, 2009
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Speakers' Papers
Monica Penick, Tastemaker: Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the Search for American Style.
Susan Morgan, The Important House.
Jane King Hession, The Architect is a Woman: The Modern Houses of Lisl Close.
Thaisa Way, Constellations and collective histories: Women in Landscape Architecture.


Speakers' Biographies
Monica Penick, PhD, is an Andrew W. Mellon ACLS Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also lectures in the History of Modern Architecture, the History of Interior Design, and Historic Preservation. Her current research examines the culture of taste, consumption, and identity in postwar domestic design.

Susan Morgan writes extensively about art, design, and popular culture; a contributing editor at Metropolitan Home, she was also a contributing writer for Mirabella, Elle, and Interview. Her research, for a planned book and exhibition about architectural writer Esther McCoy (1904-1989), is funded in part by the BWAF.

Jane King Hession, an independent scholar, is president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and co-author of Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959 (Gibbs Smith Publisher, 2007). Her research on the monograph Lisl Close: A Life in Modern Architecture is funded in part by the BWAF.

Thaisa Way, PhD, ASLA, is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington where she teaches design, history and theory. Her book, Unbounded Practices: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century (2009), was supported, in part, by the BWAF. Her research explores alternative histories of the design professions and practices.


Moderators' Biographies
Lian Hurst Mann, PhD, architect and culture theorist, has written extensively about architecture, the culture industry, and the production of oppositional culture. SHe is currently director of the National School for Strategic Organizing at the Labor/Community Strategy Center, Los Angeles. Mann's book Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Strategies and Social Practices (with Thomas A. Dutton) engages different theoretical frameworks that guided resistant practices of architecture in the late 20th century.

Peggy Deamer is a Professor at Yale's School of Architecture and a Principal of her architecture firm, Deamer Studio. She is editor of The Millennium House and co-editor of Re-Reading Perspecta and the forthcoming Building (in) the Future. Her research covers contemporary architectural theory as it relates to pedagogy and practice.

Cynthia Hammond is Assistant Professor of Architectural History, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Her research, teaching and publishing engages with questions of gender, architecture, and the role of women designers and arbiters in the creation of the built environment.