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Feature: Built By Women: The Gardens of Dumbarton Oaks
The Foundation Terrace at Dumbarton Oaks, designed by Beatrix Farrand. Photo Credit: See below. The gardens at Dumbarton Oaks, a 54+ acre estate in Washington, D.C. were designed by landscape...
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Feature: Built By Women: The Lookout Studio
The Lookout Studio at Grand Canyon National Park by Mary Colter. Photo Credit: See below The Lookout Studio at the Grand Canyon National Park was designed by Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter (1869-1958). As...
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Feature: Built By Women: 800 Lake Shore Drive
The apartments at 860-880 Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois were designed by Mies van der Rohe. Louise Harris Brown, his former pupil, was the structural engineer for this site, as well as others...
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Feature: Built By Women: Aqua Tower
A view looking vertically from the ground floor of Aqua Tower Aqua Tower, located on the 200 block of North Columbus Drive in Chicago, is the first skyscraper project by renowned and innovative...
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Feature: Built by Women: Union Carbide Building
This photo was taken by participant/team official-ly cool as part of the Commons:Wikipedia Takes Manhattan project on April 4, 2008. The Union Carbide Building, or 270 Park Avenue, was completed in...
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Feature: Built by Women: LAX Terminal 1
Map of Los Angeles International Airport, with Terminal 1 at top right. Photo Credit: Wikimedia user Jay8G. Norma Merrick Sklarek, FAIA, designed the new Terminal 1 at Los Angeles International Airport...
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Feature: Built by Women: Longue Vue Gardens
Ellen Biddle Shipman (1866-1950) began work on Longue Vue Gardens, set in New Orleans, in 1935 for philanthropists Edith Rosewald Stern and Edgar Bloom Stern. Known as one of the last great estates of...
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Feature: Built By Women: 21c Museum Hotel
Photo credit: Catherine Tighe. When art collectors Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown created a concept for the first museum hotel hybrid in the United States, they chose architect Deborah Berke, FAIA,...
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Feature: Built by Women: Oakland YWCA
fig. 1: Front façade of Oakland YWCA. Photo Credit: Mary Ann Sullivan Widely considered the most prolific woman architect of early twentieth century America, Julia Morgan (1872-1957) was unprecedented...
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Feature: Built by Women: Skyon
Skyon Tower by Sorg Architects When American architect Suman Sorg, FAIA was approached by developer IREO to design a housing development on a 22-acre parcel at the southeastern edge of Delhi, she...
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Feature: Built by Women: 48 Bond Street, Deborah Berke
48 Bond Street, New York City. DBP created a taut-façade broken by canted bay windows to join the conversation of shadows initiated by the undulating brick and cast-iron facades of the historic street....
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Feature: Built by Women: Manhattan Village Academy, Beverly Willis
As historic institutions with annual capital campaigns and charity auctions, New York City private schools typically outstrip their public peers in physical beauty as much as wealth. Erected...
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Built By Women: Peter Cooper Village – Stuyvesant Town, Beverly Loraine Greene
Peter Cooper Village–Stuyvesant Town. Photo from Imgur. Doors thrown open within two years of war’s end, Peter Cooper Village–Stuyvesant Town (first buildings completed in 1947) embodied the ideals of...
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Built By Women: Dover Sun House, Eleanor Raymond and Mária Telkes
Photo of Eleanor Raymond and Mária Telkes at the Dover Solar House, Powisset St., Dover, Massachusetts. Courtesy of the Frances Loeb Library. Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The Dover Sun...
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Built By Women: Roosevelt Memorial Common, Marjorie Sewell Cautley
Roosevelt Common. Photo Credit: Mills + Schnoering Architects LLC. The Roosevelt Memorial Common in Tenafly, New Jersey was constructed between 1921 and 1930. It was landscape architect Marjorie Sewell...
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Built By Women: C.V. Starr East Asian Library at UC Berkeley, Billie Tsien, AIA
Facade, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA. Photo Credit: Nic Lehoux. UC Berkeley’s C.V. Starr East Asian Library, opened in 2009, foregoes the stereotypical tropes...
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Built By Women: LGBT Community Center, San Francisco, S. Jane Cee
LGBT Community Center, Market Street, San Francisco, California. Photo Credit: Flickr user CTG/SF Architect S. Jane Cee and her firm, Cee Architects, collaborated with Pfau Architects to design the...
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Built By Women: Ellamae Ellis League Residence, Macon, Georgia
Exterior View, Ellamae Ellis League House. Image Source: National Park Service/Jim Lockhart, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Division. Ellamae Ellis League designed her...
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Built By Women: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Mortimer B. Zuckerman Research Center
Image Source: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center website The design of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Research Center, located at 417 East 68th Street in Manhattan, was led by...
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BWAF Blog: Exhibition Opening of Built by Women NYC
Built by Women NYC Exhibition Opening, Center for Architecture. Photo Credit: BWAFArchive BxW NYC Exhibition Opening at the Center for Architecture. Photo Credit: BWAFArchive Below is a guest blog...
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