Woman and the Architecture of the American West

ARCH 4364-H01 & 5311-005	BIBLIOGRAPHY
WOMEN and the ARCHITECTURE of the AMERICAN WEST – WAoAW
GRADUATE SEMINAR	Spring 2005
College of Architecture
Texas Tech University

Women and Architecture — General

Books

§ Cole, Doris. From Tipi to Skyscraper a History of Woman in Architecture. I Press Inc. Boston, MA, 1973. 138pp. [NA 1997 C57] below referred to as [DC73]

§ Torre, Susana, ed. Women in American Architecture: a Historic and Contemporary Perspective. Watson-Guptill Pub., NY, 1977. below referred to as [ST77]

§ Berkeley, Ellen Perry, ed. Architecture, a Place for Women, MATILDA Mc Quaid, Associate Editor. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London, 1989. 278pp. [NA 1997 A74 1989] below referred to as [EP89]

§ Friedman, Alice T. Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York, 1998. pp. 160-187. below referred to as [AF98] .

Articles

§ Cole, Doris. “Preface” and “Introduction” From Tipi to Skyscraper a History of Woman in Architecture. [DC73] pp. i-xi .

§ Berkeley, Ellen Perry, ed. ” Architecture, a Place for Women, [EP89] pp. i-xxv.

American West

Books

§ Bakken, Gordon Morris and Farrington, Brenda, editors. The Gendered West. The American West. Interactions, Intersections, and Injunctions. A Garland Series. Garland Publ. New York, 2000. [HQ 1438 W45 G46 2001] below referred to as [BF00]

§ Hine, Robert V. & Faracher, John Mack. The American West. A New Interpretative History. 616 pages.

§ Atlas of the New West: Portrait of a Changing Region, William Riebsame, general editor; James Robb, director of cartography. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.

Articles

§ Bakken, G.M. and Farrington, B. “Series Dedication”, “Series Introduction”, “Volume Dedication” “Volume Introduction” The Gendered West. The American West. Interactions, Intersections, and Injunctions. [BF00] pp. i-xxvi.

§ Armitage, Susan. “Women and Men in Western History: A Stereoptical Vision.” The Gendered West. The American West. Interactions, Intersections, and Injunctions. [BF00]. pp. 1-15. optional reading

§ Jameson, Elizabeth. “Toward a Multicultural History of Women in the Western United States.” The Gendered West. The American West. Interactions, Intersections, and Injunctions. [BF00]. pp. 177-207.

Native American and Hispanic Colonial Period

§ Lobell, Mimi. “The Buried Treasure. Women’s Ancient Architectural Heritage”. Architecture. A place for Women. Opus Cited. Ch. 13. pp. 139-157.

§ Castaneda, Antonia I. “Engendering the History of Alta California, 1769-1848. Gender, Sexuality, and the Family.” The Gendered West. The American West. Interactions, Intersections, and Injunctions. [BF00]. pp. 274-303.

Pioneers

Books

§ Peavy, Linda & Smith, Ursula. Pioneer Women — the Lives of Women on the Frontier, Smithmark Pub., New York, NY, 1996.

Articles

§ Cole, Doris. “Frontier Traditions. Pioneers and Indians”. [DC73]. Ch.1. pp. 1-27. [NA 1997 C57]

§ Peavy, Linda & Smith, Ursula. “A Home in the West. Pioneer Women Settling In.” Pioneer Women — the Lives of Women on the Frontier, Smithmark Pub., New York, NY, 1996. pp. 47-69 [HQ 1438 W45 P43 1996].

Early Professionals (prior to 1920)

Books

§ That Exceptional One. Women in American Architecture, 1888-1988. The American Architectural Foundation. Washington, D.C., 1988. [Interlibrary Loan]

§ Lynne Avadenka, The uncommon Perspective of M.E.J. Colter, Land Marks Press, 1992.

§ Berke, Arnold. Mary Colter – Architect of the Southwest , Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2002.

Articles

§ Barbasch, Adriana. “Louise Blanchard Bethune. The AIA Accepts Its First Woman Member”. [EP89]. pp. 15-25

§ Boutelle, Sara Homes. “An Elusive Pioneer. Tracing the Work of Julia Morgan”. [EP89]. pp. 107-123.

§ Boutelle, Sara Homes. “Julia Morgan in Some Professional Roles 1860-1910”. [ST77] pp. 79-87.

1920s and 30s

Books

§ Anderson, Dorothy May. Women, Design and the Cambridge School. Mesa, Ariz.: PDA Publishers, 1980. [book-to request]

§ Rudnick, Lois Palken. Mabel Dodge Luhan. New Woman, New Worlds. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1989.

§ Rudnick, Lois Palken. Utopian Vistas. The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.

Articles

§ Stevens, Mary Otis. “The Cambridge School.”, “A Thousand Women in Architecture”, “Early Organizations.” A Historic Perspective. 6. Struggle for Place. [ST77] pp88-91.

§ Anderson, Dorothy May. “The Cambridge School. An Extraordinary Professional Education”. [EP89]. pp. 87-98

§ Cole, Doris. “Education of Women Architects. The Cambrige School”. [DC73]. 138pp. pp. 78-105. [NA 1997 C57]

§ Friedman, Alice T. “No Ordinary House: Frank Lloyd Wright, Aline Barnsdall, and Hollyhock House.” Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York, 1998. pp. 32-63.

§ Van Zanten, David. “Frank Lloyd Wrigth’s Kindergarten. Professional Practice and Sexual Roles”. [EP89]. pp. 55-62

§ Sweeney, Robert L., “His House, Her House, Their House”, MAK Center for Art and Architecture R.M. Schindler, Prestel Verlag, Germany, pp. 37-50, 1995.

§ Stevens, Mary Otis. “California Women Architects” in A Historic Perspective-Some Professional Roles 1920-1960. [ST77]—pp 88-91/96-99.

1940s and 50s

§ Olive Chadeayne, Architect, Transcript of an oral history interview with Inge Horton and Elizabeth O’Hara for the International Archive of Women in Architecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and AIA San Francisco, A Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, February 1993.

§ Paine, Judith. “Lilian Rice” – Some Professional Roles: 1920-1960. [ST77]. pp.108-111

§ Friedman, Alice T. “Southern California Modern: The Constance Perkins House, by Richard Neutra.” [AF98]. pp. 160-187.

§ Tyng, Anne Griswold. “Professional and Private Lives.” Louis Kahn to Anne Tyng. The Rome Letters 1953-1954. Rizzoli International Publications, New York, NY, 1997. pp.28-59.

§ Stephens, Suzanne. “Voices of Consequence: Four Architectural Critics.” [ST77] pp.136-143. (Catherine Wurster Bauer-30s-40s; Sibyl Moholy-Nagy 1950s; Jane Jacobs 1960s; Ada Louise Huxtable 1960s)

1960s and 70s

Books

§ Gebhard, David. Lutah Maria Riggs—A Woman in Architecture 1921-1980, Capra Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1992.

§ Hayden, Dolores Redesigning the American Dream, p214.

§ McCoy, Ester.

§ Venturi, Robert, Brown,Denise Scott, and Izenour, Steven. Learning from Las Vegas, Kingston Press Inc., USA, 1972. [Reserve--NA 735 L3V4 1977]

§ Venturi, Robert. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. The Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture. Museum of Modern Art, New York, originally published in 1966. [ARCH OVERSZ NA 2760 V46 1977 c.6]

§ Bauer, Catherine Wurster. Modern Housing. 1934. [NA7550.B3].

§ Jacobs, Jane. Life and Death of Great American Cities. 1961.

§ Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl. Experiments in Totality. 1950??

§ Huxtable, Ada Louise. Architecture critic of The New York Times.

Articles

§ Friedman, Alice T. “It’s a Wise Child: The Vanna Venturi House, by Robert Venturi.” [AF98]. pp. 188-213.

§ Gabor, Andrea. “Denise Scott Brown”, Einstein’s Wife—Work and Marriage in the Lives of Five Great Twentieth-Century Women. Penguin Group, New York, pp.156-231, 1995.

§ Torre, Susana. “The Pyramid and the Labyrinth”. [ST77] pp. 198-202

1980s and 90s

Books

§ Sprague, Joan Forrester. A Manual on Transitional Housing, Boston: Women’s Institute for Housing and Economic Development, 1986.

§ Gender Space Architecture. An Interdisciplinary Introduction. Rendell Jane, Penner Barbara, and Borden Iain, Eds. Routledge, London, 2000. [ARCH NA 2543 W65 G46 2000]

Articles

§ Tyng, Anne Griswold. “From Muse to Heroine. Toward a Visible Creative Identity”. [EP89]. pp. 171-186

§ Brown, Denise Scott. “Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture”. [EP89]. pp. 237-246

§ Smith, Chloethiel Woodward. “Architects without Labels. The Case against All Special Categories”. [EP89]. pp. 221-228

§ Frank, Karen. “A Feminist Approach to Architecture. Women’s Ways of Knowing.”. [EP89]. pp. 15-25.

2000 and beyond

Books

§ Roberts, Marion. Living in a Man-Made World. Gender Assumptions in Modern Housing Design. Routledge, London. 1991.

§ Toy, Maggie. “Introduction.” The Architect. Women in Contemporary Architecture. Toy, Maggie, Ed. Watson-Guptill Publ., New York, NY. 2001. pp. 9-13.

§ Pran, Peter. “Preface.” The Architect. Women in Contemporary Architecture. Toy, Maggie, Ed. Watson-Guptill Publ., New York, NY. 2001. pp. 6-8.

Women Architecture Organizations

§ Women Architects

http://www.arvha.asso.fr/archi_fem/arvha_english/accueil_anglais_g.htm

§ International Union of Women Architects, Centre Pompidou, Paris.

http://www.penrose-press.com/IDD/org/cards/S2595.html

§ Association for Women in Architecture—AWA

§ National Organization of Minority Architects
www.noma.net/

§ Spanish Women

§ South Asia

Architecture Archives and Research Guides

§ “Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record 1933-Present” a fully searchable collection in American Memory of the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml/hhhome.html

§ Architecture Web Sites
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/archweb_noframes.html

Architecture Bibliographies

§ Vance Bibliographies – Arch Library – Reference section

§ Council of Planning Librarians Exchange Bibliography – Arch Library – Reference section

Women Archives and Research Guides

§ Woman in Architecture .(a brief history)
http://www.arvha.asso.fr/arvha_french/info_arvha/document_info/us-archi.html

§ AIA- Archive on Women in Architecture, Washington DC.
http://library.aia.org/uhtbin/webcat Email-address library@aia.org.

§ International Archive of Woman in Architecture - IAWA Blacksburg, Virginia-organized by Milka Bliznakov.
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/iawa/

§ Women and Architecture: Selected Bibliography and Guide to Sources, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries.
http://library.nevada.edu/arch/rsrce/resguide/archwom.html

§ Women Architects: a Research Guide from the Art & Arch. Library of Virginia Tech
http://www.lib.vt.edu/subjects/arch/womenarchs.pdf

§ Women Architects-Photographs (Binder, Brown, Morgan, Torre)
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/women/contents.html

§ Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University Libraries
A must stop for researchers of Texas women's history. Holdings include the papers of Hermine Dalkowitz Tobolowsky, "Mother of the Texas ERA,"; Amy Freeman Lee, humanitarian and author; and the records of the League of Women Voters of Texas, which is the successor organization to the Texas Equal Suffrage Association.
http://swco.ttu.edu/

§ Julia Morgan Papers at the Special Collections Department of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/spec_coll/morgan/index.html

§ Julia Morgan Collection, 1893-1980 at the University of California, Bekeley, California
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/dynaweb/ead/berkeley/ceda/morgan/@Generic__BookView

§ Women Architects-Photographs of Julia Morgan Projects
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/jmindex/genericindex.html

§ Constructive Women--Architecture and Design Archive--Sydney, Australia
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/units/PGVO/alumni/Bronwyn/Constructive%20Women%20Archive/archive-index.html

§ Canadian Architecture Collection (CAC) at McGill University
http://cac.mcgill.ca

§ Canadian centre for Architecture
http://cca.qc.ca

§ Finnish Women Architects of the Early Twentieth Century
http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/women/archi_women.html

§ Historic Chart Relating Architectural Projects to General and Women’s History in the U.S. [ST77]

Women Bibliographies

§ Doumato, Lamia. Architecture and Women: A Bibliography Documenting Women Architects, Landscape Architects, Architectural Critics and Writers, and Women in related fields working in the United States. Garland Pub., New York, 1988. [NA 2543.W65 D72 1988]

§ Doumato, Lamia. “Women: Architects of the Environment”. Vance Bibliographies, Monticello, Ill., 1981. 12p. [NA1.V22 no.A-492]

§ ----, ”Women as Architects: a Historical View.” Vance Bibliographies. 1978. [NA1. V22 mo. A-6]

§ ----, “Eleanor Raymond”. Vance Bibliographies. 1978 [NA1. V22. no. A-809]

§ ---, “California Women Architects: a Bibliography.” Vance Bibliographies [NA1.V22 no. A-2255].

§ Harmon, Robert. “The Feminine Influence in Architecture: a Selected Bibliography.” Vance Bibliographies, 1980. [NA1. V22 no. A-243]

§ Huls, Mary Ellen. “Women in Architecture, 1977 to the present: a Bibliography. Vance Bibliographies. 1986. [NA1. V22 no.A-1559].

§ Johnson, Carolyn R. Women in Architecture: an Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Sources of Information. Council of Planning Librarians exchange bibliography, Monticello, Ill. 1974. 25p. [NA9001.C85 no.549]

§ White, Anthony. “Julia Morgan, Architect: a Selected Bibliography”. Vance Bibliographies 1990. [NA1. V22 no. A-2332]

Professional Architecture Organizations

§ AIA – American Institute of Architects
http://www.aia.org/institute/memberbenefits.asp

§ Royal Australian Institute of Architects
http://www.architecture.com.au/i-cms?page=1

§ Royal Institute of British Architects
http://www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/Home.html

§ Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
http://www.raic.org/

§ Architectural Institute of Japan
http://www.aij.or.jp/

§ UIA: International Union of Architects (98 countries)

§ HABS--Historic American Building Survey
http://www.cr.nps.gov/habshaer/habs/

§ HABS/HAER-Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
http://www.cr.nps.gov/habshaer/