• A View from the Future is a leadership forum hosted by BWAF on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 from 8:15 - 11:00 am at the CUNY Graduate Center Proshansky auditorium in New York City. Click below for more information.

    A View From The Future

    Posted on May 1, 2012 | 2 Comments
    A View from the Future is a leadership forum hosted by BWAF on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 from 8:15 - 11:00 am at the CUNY Graduate Center Proshansky auditorium in New York City. Click below for more information.

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  • AIA Detroit presented Women in Design: Screening of “A Girl is a Fellow Here” and a panel featuring Cynthia Weese, FAIA, Tracy Sweeney, AIA, Naomi Beasley, and Wanda Bubriski. The panel was moderated by Ashley Flintoff and held at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

    Women in Design: Screening and Panel

    Posted on April 21, 2012 | No Comments
    AIA Detroit presented Women in Design: Screening of “A Girl is a Fellow Here” and a panel featuring Cynthia Weese, FAIA, Tracy Sweeney, AIA, Naomi Beasley, and Wanda Bubriski. The panel was moderated by Ashley Flintoff and held at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

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  • Rebecca Williamson introduces us to two new firsts, Elmira Smyrl, the only female professor to participate in a faculty workshop run by the ACSA in the late 1950's, and Mary Page, the first woman to graduate with a degree in architecture in North America.

    New Firsts! Who Knew?

    Posted on March 21, 2012 | No Comments
    Rebecca Williamson introduces us to two new firsts, Elmira Smyrl, the only female professor to participate in a faculty workshop run by the ACSA in the late 1950's, and Mary Page, the first woman to graduate with a degree in architecture in North America.

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  • The seventh annual Women of Architecture program, "Architecture and the Great Recession," was held on March 8th, 2012 at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.

    National Building Museum 2012

    Posted on March 20, 2012 | 1 Comment
    The seventh annual Women of Architecture program, "Architecture and the Great Recession," was held on March 8th, 2012 at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.

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  • (1912--2011) Elizabeth “Lisl” Scheu Close died in Minneapolis on November 29, 2011 at the age of ninety-nine. Close specialized in the design of residential architecture, laboratories and medical facilities.

    Elizabeth Scheu Close, FAIA, In Memoriam

    Posted on March 19, 2012 | 1 Comment
    (1912--2011) Elizabeth “Lisl” Scheu Close died in Minneapolis on November 29, 2011 at the age of ninety-nine. Close specialized in the design of residential architecture, laboratories and medical facilities.

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  • Read Roberta Washington's "In Memoriam" piece on Norma Merrick Sklarek, the first black woman to be licensed as an architect in New York and California and the first black woman to be inducted into the AIA College of Fellows (1980).

    Norma Merrick Sklarek, FAIA, In Memoriam

    Posted on March 19, 2012 | 1 Comment
    Read Roberta Washington's "In Memoriam" piece on Norma Merrick Sklarek, the first black woman to be licensed as an architect in New York and California and the first black woman to be inducted into the AIA College of Fellows (1980).

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