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| Volume 3, Issue 2: Guggenheim Colloquium
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May, 2009
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You are invited
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| Co-organized by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation will present The Architecture of Writing on Wednesday, June 10, 2009. |
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Honoring Taliesin Fellow Lois Gottlieb, this special evening program features a panel discussion preceded by the premier of “A Girl Is A Fellow Here”: 100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, a new 15-minute documentary film produced by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation that explores an unknown legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright. The panel will explore definitions of architectural genius in which collaboration in general, and women in particular, assume greater stature. The goal is to investigate how architectural writing—whether fact, fiction or faction—itself influences and perpetuates architecture’s historical narrative, and how women architects fare within that narrative. |
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Panel speakers include Carol Gilligan (left), psychologist, novelist, and currently Professor at New York University. She held Harvard University's first chair in gender studies. Harvard University Press describes her 1982 book, In a Different Voice, as "the little book that started a revolution." Her first novel Kyra (2008), introduces into a fictional
narrative—perhaps for the first time—a female architect as the protagonist.
Gwendolyn Wright (lower left) is an historian and professor of architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where, in 1985, she was the first woman to receive tenure. Her recent book, USA (2008), is part of a series on Modern Architectures in History published by Reaktion Press. |
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Since 2003 Wright has also served as a host of the popular PBS television series, “History Detectives.”
Moderator Suzannah Lessard (top right), is a writer of literary non-fiction, currently working on a book about the American landscape under the working title, Mapping the New World: Place in the Twenty-first Century. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family for which she won the Whiting Award in 1996.
Honoree Lois Davidson Gottlieb, FAIA (right) was at the Taliesin Fellowship under Frank Lloyd Wright from 1947 to 1948. In a life that took her to India and Europe, Gottlieb designed houses and provided design or construction services for a total of 100 projects.
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Tickets Required
Please visit: www.guggenheim.org/
publicprograms
or call 212 423 3587
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Suzannah Lessard |
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Lois Gottlieb |
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Beverly Willis |
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Beverly Willis, FAIA, (above) president of BWAF, had a lauded 50-year career in architectural and design practice following a career as a multimedia artist.
For more information,
please visit www.bwaf.org/events |
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"A Girl is a Fellow Here:"
100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright |
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A 15-minute documentary film |
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| At a time when few architectural firms would hire women, Frank Lloyd Wright unhesitatingly employed women, giving them both training and the opportunity to practice. Ultimately, over 100 women architects and designers worked with Wright, many of them going on to remarkable careers of their own. "A Girl Is A Fellow Here": Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright focuses on six of those women—Marion Mahony, Isabel Roberts, Lois Gottlieb, Jane Duncombe, Eleanore Petterson, and Read Weber. Through their work and their own words they reveal what they gleaned from Wright and where they departed from his model. Under Wright’s guidance, from Oak Park to the Arizona Taliesin, they learned their craft and honed their ideas; they split wood and laid shingles; they dreamed and drew and designed. After they left Wright’s studio, they created thousands of projects across the country. They are Frank Lloyd Wright’s unknown legacy, and their practice forms a legacy for all women working in architecture today. |
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Film Credits
Film by: In-D Multi-Media Company
Produced by: Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation
Written and Directed by: Beverly Willis
Art Direction by: Timothy Sakamoto
Script Writer: Meg Pinto
Music by: Josh Sklair
Narration by: Shiromi Arserio
Edited by: Francois Maurin |
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| The Architecture of Writing, Part II |
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BWAF Fellows' Colloquium, June 11, 10am-1pm |
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| The Architecture of Writing, Part II presents a full morning of investigation into the creative and collaborative world of women architects, designers and landscape architects. What are the most effective critical models for writing about women and their impact on the built environment? What do different theories and methods offer the feminist historian of architecture? And how do we as historians go about the challenging task of writing about women in the design professions? Through these questions, four BWAF Fellows—Monica Penick, Susan Morgan, Jane King Hession and Thaisa Way—will use their own experiences as researchers and writers to explore the various approaches when it comes to the crucial matter of writing women into the annals of history. Moderators Lian Hurst Mann, Peggy Deamer, and Cynthia Hammond, all BWAF Trustees, will open the topic to the audience in what is expected to be a vital session of debate and discussion.
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The Architecture of Writing, Part ll, marks the third biennial BWAF Fellows' Colloquium, a series designed to engage scholars, practitioners and BWAF Fellows in issues pertinent to the Foundation and to the historiography of architecture.
Attendance is by invitation only. Please contact: director@bwaf.org. |
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| Transforming Skylines and Communities |
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| BWAF, in collaboration with the National Building Museum, presented Jeanne Gang, founder and principal of Studio Gang Architects on March 9, 2009. Gang, one of a new breed of young architects changing the profession, discussed the transformative elements of urban buildings and neighborhoods in her native Chicago and beyond. Jeanne Gang extends into the 21st century a continuum at least four generations long of outstanding women architects who, too, were transforming skylines across America beginning at the turn of the 20th century.
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The audience in the hall of the National Building Museum
Photos by Tom Kochel
More photos here
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| Missed the event? Listen to the podcast.
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