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First American Women Architects

  • ISBN-13: 9780252033216
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Sarah Allaback
  • Price: AUD $107.00
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  • Local release date: 14/07/2008
  • Format: Hardback 280 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Architecture [AM]
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By 1920, there were over two hundred women practicing architecture in the United States, actively working on major design and building projects before they were even given the right to vote. These women designed thousands of buildings nationwide: apartments in Kansas City, hotels in the nation's national parks, churches in Michigan, and mansions on the coast of California, to name a few. In The First American Women Architects, Sarah Allaback chronicles the lives and careers of more than seventy pioneering female architects practicing in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, nearly all of whom have been forgotten--until now. Organized alphabetically as a reference guide, this volume provides a biographical sketch of each architect's life, education, and professional career, and a list of known works and sources for further research.
''This well-researched book is unlike anything else that is currently available on the subject of early women architects. An invaluable starting place for researchers and a highly recommended introduction to the underexplored field of women in architecture and design.'' Amelia Peck, co-author of Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design, 1875-1900
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