Resources

Resources for Teachers and Students

DNA
Investigate architect profiles at the Dynamic National Archive, formerly known as the Timeline of American Women of Architecture.

Bibliography
This bibliography is a collaboration between Arizona State University Professor Sherry Ahrentzen and the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. Professor Ahrentzen’s paper, “The Space Between Studs: Feminism and Architecture,” available for download here, is the source for a majority of these texts. The Foundation’s goal in making this bibliography readily available to the public is to encourage exploration into the unique role of women architects within the architectural profession, as well as the larger role of women in the creation and understanding of constructed space.

Teaching Materials
“A Girl Is A Fellow Here” ~100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, is a15-minute documentary film that explores an unknown legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright. Produced by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, the film premiered on June 10, 2009, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. At a time when few architectural firms would hire women, Frank Lloyd Wright unhesitatingly employed women, giving them both training and opportunity to practice. Ultimately, over 100 women architects and designers worked with Wright. The film tells the story of how six women worked and went on to distinguished careers of their own, beginning with his first staff member Marion Mahony, and including Isabel Roberts, Jane Duncombe, Lois Davidson Gottlieb, Eleanore Pettersen and Read Weber.

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