write women August-December 2010 prominent women writers who
have influenced the design professions in the following areas:
feminist space historical criticism urban design environmental
impact
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Library Display: a Collaborative Story write women
August-December 2010 prominent women writers who have influenced
the design professions in the following areas: feminist space
historical criticism urban design environmental impact
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Library Display: a Collaborative Story write women
August-December 2010 prominent women writers who have influenced
the design professions in the following areas: feminist space
historical criticism urban design environmental impact process
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window case - exteriorwindow case - interior display areas in
our library
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plinths & wallflat cases & wall display areas in our
library
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add water lecture literature typical display
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add water quick assemblage mostly visual few months unannounced
lecture literature typical display
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add water quick assemblage mostly visual few months unannounced
lecture literature books & journals on invited lecturer 7 10
days announced to SALA faculty & students typical display
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department work plan individual work plans genesis
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department work plan engage Arch & LArch departments
collaborative diversity project individual work plans genesis
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department work plan engage Arch & LArch departments
collaborative diversity project individual work plans in depth
display part time staff asking for creative tasks genesis
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selecting theme influential women writers initial research
& list full time staff 10 authors polling faculty & staff
46 authors from 12 faculty paring list down full time staff 21
authors 4 categories feminist space historical criticism urban
design environmental impact process
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research & writing content full time & level 3 brief
biography historical impact featured writings editing &
tweaking full time staff creating & assembling full time, level
3 & level 2 one illustrated panel per author supporting images
digital picture frame signage, captions, etc assembled featured
writings process
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publicity PRaM brochure & Interview Collegian, Nov. 9 th
2010 timeline started research in Feb 2010 opened in Aug 2010
closed end of Dec 2010 process
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lessons learned a lot of work start early with a realistic
timeline communication & deadlines tough to make text heavy
display visually interesting proof read, proof reed, prooffread,
proofread publicity helps
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the upside good response from SALA faculty staff pushed their
envelope well received by library patrons high "annual report"
value will archive in the CMS
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feminist space Catharine Beecher (1800-1878) The American
Womans Home Jane Addams (1860-1935) Twenty Years at Hull-House The
Second Twenty Years at Hull- House Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(1860-1935) The Home: Its Work and Influence Utopian Novels: Moving
the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland Beatriz Colomina
Domesticity at War The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism in Sexuality
and Space
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historical criticism Louisa C. Tuthill (1799-1879) History of
Architecture from the Earliest Times Mariana Griswold Van
Rensselaer (1851- 1934) Accents as Well as Broad Effects: Writings
on Architecture, Landscape, and the Environment Henry Hobson
Richardson and His Works Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) The Stones of
Florence Venice Observed Ada Louise Huxtable (1921- ) Goodbye
History, Hello Hamburger Kicked a Building Lately? Dana Cuff (1953-
) Architecture: The Story of Practice
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urban design Theodora Kimball Hubbard (1887-1935) Our Cities
To-day and To-morrow Catherine Bauer Wurster (1905-1964) Modern
Housing Jane Jacobs (1918-2006) The Death and Life of Great
American Cities Denise Scott Brown (1931- ) Learning from Las Vegas
Dolores Hayden (1950- ) Power of Place: Urban Landscape as Public
History Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (1950- ) Towns and Town-making
Principles Setha Low On the Plaza
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environmental impact May Thielgaard Watts (1893-1975) Reading
the Landscape of America Rachel Carson (1907-1964) Silent Spring
The Sea Around Us Anne Whiston Spirn The Granite Garden: Urban
Nature and Human Design The Language of Landscape Elizabeth Meyer
The Expanded Field of Landscape Architecture "Post-Earth Day
Conundrum: Translating Environmental Values into Landscape
Design
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write women further reading Berkeley, Ellen Perry, ed.
Architecture : A Place for Women. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1989. Cole, Doris. From Tipi to Skyscraper : A
History of Women in Architecture. Boston: i press; distributed by
G. Braziller, New York, 1973. Favro, Diane. "Women Write: The
Shaping of American Architecture by Female Authors." Architecture
California v.18, n.2 (1996-1997): 40-51. Norwood, Vera. Made From
This Earth: American Women and Nature. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1993. Oldershaw, Barbara. "Developing a
Feminist Critique of Architecture." Design Book Review n.25 (1992):
7-15. Sherman, Claire Richter, ed. Women as Interpreters of the
Visual Arts. 1820-1979 Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.
Torre, Susana, ed. Women in American Architecture: A Historic and
Contemporary Perspective. New York: Whitney Library of Design,
1977. Van Slyck, Abigail A. "Women in Architecture and the Problem
of Biography." Design Book Review n.25 (1992): 19-22. Wright,
Gwendolyn. On the Fringe of the Profession: Women in American
Architecture. In The Architect: Chapters in the History of the
Profession, edited by Spiro Kostoff, 208-308. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2000.