Volume 1, Issue 4: Colloquium Wrap-Up December, 2007 BWAF in the News  New York Times  October 31, 2007, Architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff: Keeping Houses, Not Building Them  Architectural Record on-line edition, October 31, 2007, Sleuthing Forgotten Works of Architecture  Architectural Record podcast  October 17, 2007, The ArchRecord Interview: Beverly Willis, FAIA  Metropolis Magazine on-line edition, October 21, 2007, Designing Women: The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation and The Museum of Modern Art team up to discuss women in modernism  eOculus  November 13, 2007, Women Make Power Move  Architect Magazine  August, 2007, Q&A: Beverly Willis—A Pioneer in the Profession Makes Sure the History Books Tell the Whole Story For more news, visit www.bwaf.org/press Save the Date To celebrate Women's History Month, the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, in collaboration with BWAF, will present "Challenging the Paradigm, A Conversation with Three Women Deans" on March 10, 2008 at the Museum. Participants will include Frances Bronet, Dean, School of Architecture & Allied Arts, University of Oregon; Donna Robertson, Dean, College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology; Karen Van Lengen, Dean, School of Architecture, University of Virginia. Wanda Bubriski, Director of BWAF, will moderate the conversation. MoMA — BWAF Presented Women in Modernism Colloquium "An Historic Event" on October 25, 2007 Women in Modernism Panelists Answer Audience Questions. All photos: Jelena Vukotic This sold-out event at The Museum of Modern Art marked the second biennial BWAF Colloquium. With a focus on architectural arbiters, speakers covered topics addressing the institution of architecture and its mechanisms of power. Participants included featured speaker Gwendolyn Wright, Professor of Architecture at Columbia University; Sarah Herda, Executive Director of the Graham Foundation; Karen Stein, former Editorial Director of Phaidon Press; and Toshiko Mori, Chair of the Department of Architecture at Harvard University. Barry Bergdoll, MoMA's Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, moderated. Beverly Willis, FAIA, delivered an introduction. A transcript of Gwendolyn Wright's talk is available at www.bwaf.org/events. A podcast of the entire Colloquium is available at MoMA's website. (Scroll down to download MP3) Did you attend the Women in Modernism Colloquium? Let us hear from you! An excerpt of your remarks may be featured on the BWAF website.  Did the Colloquium resonate with your experiences?  What topics were left out that still need to be addressed?  How can we encourage the discussion of women in architecture? To send your comments, please click HERE. Featured Speaker Gwendolyn Wright addresses the audience. Catherine Zipf of Salve Regina University, a BWAF Fellow, questions the panel. New Bibliography Available Online Professor Sherry Ahrentzen of Arizona State University, collaborated with BWAF to publish an online bibliography that encourages exploration into the unique role of women architects, as well as the larger role of women in the creation and understanding of constructed space. View or download the bibliography at www.bwaf.org/bibliography. Unpacking the Toolbox Biennial BWAF Fellows' Colloquium (L to R) BWAF Fellow Barbara Mobarak of Morgan State University, Carie Penabad of the University of Miami, and Anita Cooney of Pratt Institute. BWAF Fellows met at the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers October 26, 2007 to discuss new tools for highlighting the role of women in modern architecture. The Fellows’ Colloquium was co-chaired by Professor Cynthia Hammond of Concordia University, Professor Gabrielle Esperdy of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and BWAF’s Assistant Director, Dariel Cobb. Melanie Macchio of The Cultural Landscape Foundation presented an online video history of landscape architect Carol Johnson, premiering December 18, that was partially funded by a BWAF Fellowship. Dariel Cobb presented the American Women of Architecture Timeline. Cynthia Hammond elegantly summarized the mood of the participants in her closing remarks: “We are leaving a trace here for future generations, not only of our work and commitment to women as producers of architecture and architectural history, but also a record of our discontent with the history of modernism as it is still broadly understood… The future can look back and see that we wanted to know more, see more and have, simply, more women recognized in our shared histories, institutions, and architectural cultures.” Introducing: Pioneer Profile Pioneer Catherine Bauer, (1905-1964), was an urban housing activist who inspired a generation. Following the devastation of the Great Depression, Bauer became a passionate advocate of housing for the poor, actively engaging architects to design progressive social housing. She was a co-author of the Housing Act of 1937, and author of Modern Housing, published in 1934 and considered a classic in the field. Bauer was a founding member of the Bay Area architecture research group Telesis. During her career, Bauer served as an advisor to 5 US Presidents. To send us the name of a pioneer you'd like to see profiled, please click HERE. (Erratum: In issue 3, BWAF Briefly mistakenly identified Bauer as an architect.) Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation 2 Columbus Avenue  Suite 3A New York, New York 10023 212.577.1200 | 203.488.9009 www.BWAF.org contact the editor The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization BWAF Briefly—all rights reserved © 2007