International Archive of Women in Architecture
The International Archive of Women in Architecture ( IAWA ) was founded in 1985 at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ( Virginia Tech ), Blacksburg , Virginia , USA . The archive collects drafts and documents from architects in order to preserve them and make them accessible to posterity. Since 2001, the IAWA has awarded the Milka Bliznakov Research Prize annually to promote historical research on women in architecture.
history
The initiative for the IAWA came from Milka Bliznakov (1927-2010), architecture professor at Virginia Tech, in the early 1980s when she realized how little information could be found about women architects. Design drawings by architects were not available and could therefore not be used in lectures and seminars. Bliznakov doubted that there were no practicing architects. Instead, she assumed that the only missing information was who they were, where they had been and what they had achieved. A key experience for her was the loss of the estate of an acquaintance who had worked as an architect in Bulgaria and Germany for more than 50 years : “Her family saw no value in the sketches, in the drawings, specifications, business correspondence, everything she had created during almost 60 years of architectural practice, and threw it all away ”(“ Your family saw no value in their sketches, in their drawings, specifications, business correspondence, anything they had created in almost 60 years of architectural practice, and threw it all away ”) Bliznakov later recalled. Donna Dunay, Chair of the IAWA Advisory Board, noted that there were women architects who carefully preserved their husbands' work while throwing their own away.
In 1983 Bliznakov began addressing women architects in the US and Europe. According to her own statement, she wrote more than 1,000 letters and visited several countries. The idea of an archive of the work of women was well received, although it was also critically asked how useful it is to separate the work of women and men. From 1985, Bliznakov worked with Glenn L. McMullen, director of Special Collections at Virginia Tech's Newman Library, and later with Virginia Tech archivist Laura H. Katz. The IAWA was established as a joint program between two Virginia Tech institutions, the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and the University Libraries. In 1987 the archive received the documents from 28 women from Austria , Spain , Switzerland , the Netherlands , the USA and West Germany. The L'Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes (UIFA) also contributed collections of materials. In 1999 the IAWA already had more than 160 collections. Today there are more than 450 with more than 50 cubic meters, 150 of which are collections of unpublished manuscripts.
To commemorate its 25th anniversary, the IAWA, together with UIFA Japan, planned the exhibition “For the Future: Pioneering Women in Architecture From Japan and Beyond” (“For the Future: Pioneering Women in Architecture from Japan and Beyond”) ) in Tokyo . The Tōhoku earthquake in March 2011 made implementation difficult, but the exhibition still took place in June 2011.
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary, the IAWA organized the 18th UIFA Congress in 2015 under the motto “Contributing to the Constellation” in Washington, DC and Blacksburg.
Objective and mission
The aim of the archive is to document the history of women's participation in architecture. For this purpose, the archive collects the professional documents of architects, horticultural architects, designers, architectural historians and urban planners as well as the documents of architects' associations. The documents are preserved, archived and made available to researchers.
Collections
At the beginning, the IAWA mainly collected documents from women who were active in architecture at a time when there were only a few women in this professional field. The IAWA is now also including documents that document the work of women architects from all generations in order to close significant gaps in the primary sources available for research into architectural, women's and social history. The extent of the assets and bequests collected from the architects ranges from a few architectural drawings to the complete business operations of an architect, ie architectural drawings , sketches, photographs and business correspondence.
In addition, the IAWA collects books, biographical information and published writings on the global history of women in architecture. The IAWA has records on women from almost forty countries. Important assets and bequests of the IAWA are:
- Lois Gottlieb (* 1926) from San Francisco , interior designer and author
- Louise Hall (1905–1990), 1931–1973 Professor of Art and Architecture at Duke University
- L. Jane Hastings (* 1928), American architect, founder of the Hastings Group architecture company, first female chancellor of the American Institutes of Architects (AIA)
- Anna Keichline (1889–1943), American architect, inventor of the "K-Brick"
- Yasmin Lari (* 1941), Pakistan's first female architect
- Elsa Leviseur (* 1932), South African architect who practiced and taught in South Africa , California and England
- Eleanore Pettersen (1916–2003), American architect, first woman to open her architectural practice in New Jersey
- Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp (1943–2003), German-American architect who practiced in Palo Alto , California
- Beverly Willis (* 1928), architect from San Francisco
- Zelma Wilson (1918–1996), American architect
- Liane Zimbler , b. Juliana Fischer (1892–1987), Austrian architect, one of the first European architects, emigrated to the USA in 1938
Some of the collections have been scanned and are accessible online via the Virginia Tech image database ( VT Imagebas e).
Milka Bliznakov Research Prize
The prize was launched in 2001 under the name Milka Bliznakov Prize Fund to honor the founder of the IAWA and to promote the use of the archive's collection. The award process consists of two steps: First, applicants submit - this is intended for architects, scientists, researchers and students - a description of their planned research project, which is intended to help close the existing gap in historical knowledge about the achievements of women in architecture . Several of the projects applied for are funded. The winner himself is selected from the completed projects in the following year. In 2011 the prize was renamed the Milka Bliznakov Research Prize . The procurement guidelines have been changed to the effect that the IAWA collection must now be used for part of the project.
| year | Award winners |
|---|---|
| 2001 | Claire Bonney: The Work and Life of Adrienne Gorska |
| 2002 | Elizabeth Birmingham: Searching for Marion Mahony : Gender, Erasure, and the Discourse of Architectural Studies. |
| 2003 | Ozlem Erkarslan: Turkish Women Architects in the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Era 1908-1960 |
| Barbara Nadel: Security Design: Achieving Transparency in Civic Architecture. | |
| 2004 | Janet Stoyel: Sonicloth |
| Dorrita Hannah: un-housing performance: The Heart of PQ | |
| 2005 | Isabel Bauer: Architecture students from the Weimar Republic |
| Carmen Alonso Espegel: Heroines of the Space | |
| Bobbye Tigerman: 'I Am Not a Decorator'. Florence Knoll , the Knoll Planning Unit, and the Making of the Modern Office | |
| Honor: Joseph Chuo Wang | |
| 2006 | Eran Ben-Joseph, Holly D. Ben-Joseph and Anne C. Dodge: Against All Odds: MIT ’s Pioneering Women of Landscape Architecture (Commendation) |
| 2007 | No awards |
| 2008 | Martha Alonso, Sonia Bevilacqua and Graciela Brandariz: Odilia Suárez : The Exemplary Trajectory of an Architect and Urbanist in Latin America. |
| Despina Stratigakos: A Woman's Berlin | |
| Commendation for Lori Brown: Feminist practices [exhibition] | |
| 2009 | Patrick Lee Lucas: Sarah Hunter Kelly : Designing the House of Good Taste |
| 2010 | Inge Schaefer Horton: Early Women Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area |
| 2011 | Lindsay Nencheck: Organizing Voices: Examining the 1974 Women in Architecture Symposium at Washington University in St. Louis |
| 2012 | Andrea J. Merrett: Feminism in American Architecture: Organizing 1972–1975 |
| 2013 | Robert Holton, Natalie De Blois - The role and contribution in the design of three pivotal SOM projects completed in New York City between 1950–1960: the Lever House, the Pepsi-Cola building and the Union Carbide |
| 2014 | Meredith Sattler: Early Technological Innovation in the Systems Approach to Environmental Design: Situating Beverly Willis and Associates' CARLA platform [Computerized Approach to Residential Land Analysis] within the developmental trajectory of Geographic Information Systems ( GIS ) |
| 2015 | Claire Bonney Brüllman: The Work and Life of Adrienne Gorska |
| Sarah Rafson: CARY (Chicks in Architecture Refuse to Yield) | |
| 2016 | Ines Moisset: Women Architects on the Web |
| Tanja Poppelreuter: Refugee and émigré female architects before 1940 | |
| 2017 | Rixt Hoekstra: Regarding De Stijl through a Gender Perspective: The Work and Life of Han Schröder (1918–1992) |
| Kirat Kaur Pandher: Indian Architects: A Proposal for Directed Expansion (Prize for students) |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anna Sokolina: Milka Bliznakov, 1927-2010 . In: Slavic Review . tape 70 , no. 2 , 2011, p. 498-499 .
- ↑ a b Inge S. Horton: Remembering Milka Tscherneva Bliznakov. In: Women Architects of Northern California. 2010, Retrieved June 3, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Tony Wrenn: Professor Milka Tcherneva Bliznakov . In: IAWA Center News . tape 23 , 2011, p. 1–2, here 1 ( vt.edu [PDF; accessed on June 3, 2018]).
- ↑ a b c Professor Milka Tcherneva Bliznakov . In: IAWA Center News . tape 1 , 1989 ( vt.edu [accessed June 3, 2018]).
- ↑ a b c Laura Lewis: IAWA archive continues growth . In: Virginia Tech Spectrum . tape 21 , no. 16 , January 14, 1999, p. 3, 5 ( vt.edu [PDF; accessed on June 3, 2018]).
- ^ International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) at Virginia Tech's University Libraries. Retrieved May 25, 2018 .
- ^ A b International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) at Virginia Tech's University Libraries. Retrieved June 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Donna Dunway: Note from the chair . In: IAWA Center News . tape 23 , 2011, p. 7 ( vt.edu [PDF; accessed on June 3, 2018]).
- ↑ Virginia Tech architecture professors, new exhibit highlight female architects in a transforming Japan . In: Virginia Tech News . July 22, 2011 ( vt.edu [accessed June 3, 2018]).
- ^ For the Future: Pioneering Women in Architecture . In: IAWA Center News . tape 24 , 2012, p. 7 ( vt.edu [PDF; accessed on June 3, 2018]).
- ↑ UIFA 2015. Retrieved June 3, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ IAWA Center News No. 27/28 . 2016 ( vt.edu [PDF; accessed on June 3, 2018]).
- ^ International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) at Virginia Tech's University Libraries. Retrieved June 3, 2018 .
- ↑ IAWA Guide to the Collections at Virginia Tech's Special Collections, University Libraries. Retrieved June 2, 2018 .
- ↑ IAWA in the VT Imagebase. Retrieved June 2, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Milka Bliznakov Prize. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Alonso, Carmen Espegel, Alonso, Martha, Bauer, Isabel, Ben-Joseph, Eran, Ben-Joseph, Holly D .: A Guide to the Milka Bliznakov Prize Records, 1999-2016 Milka Bliznakov Prize Records Ms2001-045. Retrieved June 2, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d Donna Dunway: Honoring the Contributions of Women in Architecture: Findings from the IAWA Milka Bliznakov Prize . In: IAWA Center News . tape 18 , 2006, p. 4–7 ( vt.edu [PDF; accessed June 3, 2018]).
- ^ Corinna Isabel Bauer: Bauhaus and Tessenow students . Kassel University Library, Kassel 2010 ( d-nb.info [accessed June 2, 2018]).
- ↑ Carmen Espegel: Heroínas del espacio. Mujeres arquitectos en el movimiento moderno . Ediciones Generales de la Construcción, Valencia 2006, ISBN 84-934444-8-0 (Later publication of the excellent research results.).
- ↑ Bobbye Tigerman: 'I Am Not a Decorator'. Florence Knoll, the Knoll Planning Unit and the Making of the Modern Office . In: Journal of Design History . tape 20 , no. 1 , January 1, 2007, ISSN 0952-4649 , p. 61–74 , doi : 10.1093 / jdh / epl042 (Later publication of the research results.).
- ↑ Donna Dunway: The Milka Bliznakov Prize . In: IAWA Center News . tape 20 , 2008, p. 5 ( vt.edu [PDF; accessed on June 3, 2018]).
- ↑ Donna Dunway: The Ninth Milka Bliznakov Prize . In: IAWA Center News . tape 21 , 2009, p. 4 ( vt.edu [PDF; accessed on June 3, 2018]).
- ↑ Despina Stratigakos: A women's Berlin. Building the modern city . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 2008, ISBN 978-0-8166-6644-7 .
- ↑ a b Donna Dunway: The Milka Bliznakov Prize: 2009-2010 . In: IAWA Center News . tape 23 , 2011, p. 3, 6 ( vt.edu [PDF; accessed on June 3, 2018]).
- ↑ CC Sullivan: Women in architecture celebrate today, worldwide | ZDNet . In: ZDNet . March 8, 2012 ( zdnet.com [accessed June 2, 2018]).
- ^ Inge S. Horton: Early women architects of the San Francisco Bay Area. The lives and work of fifty professionals, 1890-1951 . McFarland, Jefferson, NC 2010, ISBN 978-0-7864-4656-8 .
- ↑ Lindsay Nencheck: Note from Lindsay Nencheck, 2011 Milka Bliznakov Research Prize Award Recipient . In: IAWA Center News . tape 24 , 2012, p. 5–6 ( vt.edu [PDF; accessed June 3, 2018]).
- ↑ Ines Moisset include: Women Architects on the Web . 2016 ( wordpress.com [PDF; accessed June 2, 2018]).
- ↑ UN DIA | UNA ARQUITECTA 3. Retrieved June 2, 2018 (European Spanish).
- ↑ Rixt Hoekstra wins 2017 Milka Bliznakov Research Prize> Design Academy Eindhoven. Retrieved June 2, 2018 (UK English).