Built by Women Archive
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Built by Women: Longue Vue Gardens
Posted on April 25, 2013 | No CommentsEllen Biddle Shipman (1866-1950) designed the landscapes at New Orlean's Longue Vue House and Gardens, which also features a Colonial Revival house designed specifically to maximize the owners' enjoyment of Shipman's gardens. -
Built by Women: LAX Terminal 1
Posted on February 20, 2013 | No CommentsLos Angeles International Airport's (LAX) Terminal 1 was designed by Norma Merrick Sklarek, FAIA. Photo Credit: Wikimedia user Jay8G. -
Built by Women: Union Carbide Building
Posted on February 11, 2013 | No CommentsThe Union Carbide Building, or 270 Park Avenue, was completed in 1960 and is credited to the office of Skidmore Owings & Merrill with Natalie de Blois, FAIA, as its senior designer. -
Built By Women: Aqua Tower
Posted on November 5, 2011 | No CommentsAqua Tower, located on the 200 block of North Columbus Drive in Chicago, is the first skyscraper project by renowned and innovative architect Jeanne Gang. It is, as of 2011, the tallest building in the world to have a woman as lead architect. While this itself makes... -
Built By Women: 800 Lake Shore Drive
Posted on September 1, 2011 | 2 CommentsLouise Harris Brown was the structural engineer for the 860-880 Lake Shore Drive apartments, built by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. -
Built By Women: The Lookout Studio
Posted on August 18, 2011 | 1 CommentThe Lookout Studio at the Grand Canyon National Park was designed by Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter (1869-1958). Photo Credit: NPS Photo by Michael Quinn, under Flickr Creative Commons 2.0 -
Built By Women: The Gardens of Dumbarton Oaks
Posted on May 27, 2011 | No CommentsThe gardens at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. were designed by landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, ASLA (1872-1959). Photo Credit: Passionvine on Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-3.0 license) -
Built By Women: The Mark and Sharon Gottlieb Residence
Posted on April 21, 2011 | No CommentsThe Mark and Sharon Gottlieb residence in Fairfax, VA, completed in 1996, was designed by Lois Gottlieb (1926-). Photo Credit: Mark Gottlieb -
Built By Women: The Alford/Nixon Residence
Posted on February 16, 2011 | No CommentsThe Alford/Nixon House in Saddle River, NJ, completed in 1971, was designed by Eleanore K. Pettersen, FAIA, (1916-2003). Former President Nixon lived in the 15-room home. Photo Credit: The International Archive of Women in Architecture -
Built by Women: Lafayette Hotel
Posted on December 13, 2010 | 1 CommentLouise Blanchard Bethune (1856-1913), the first female member of the AIA, designed the Lafayette Hotel for downtown Buffalo, starting in 1898 and completed in 1905. Photo Credit: BWAFArchive
