Volume 1, Issue 2: New Fellows July, 2007 New: A Timeline of American Women of Architecture On-line BWAF's new "wiki" style database, a collaboration between University of California, Los Angeles Professor Diane Favro and the Foundation, lists over 800 women architects who practiced between 1885-1980. As little information exists about these women, please click on www.bwaf.org/timeline to add your knowledge or the name of a woman architect. The American Institute of Architecture’s Archivist, Nancy Hadley, provided the list of AIA members. IN MEMORIAM Architect Margaret Helfand 1948-2007 BWAF mourns the death of a friend and supporter, and sends condolences to her family. Announcing the 2007 BWAF Fellows The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Fellows are grantees chosen by the Foundation and its Trustees whose work furthers the mission of the Foundation. To find out more about BWAF grants, see www.bwaf.org/grants. To apply, see www.bwaf.org/applications.  Kelly Comras, Landscape Architect and Historian, received a grant for the forthcoming monograph The Landscape Legacy of Ruth Patricia Shellhorn, scheduled for publication in 2008. Comras introduces the life and work of Ruth Shellhorn, one of the leading practitioners who shaped the modernist landscape of southern California.  Barbara Mobarak, AAIA, Principal, Planning & Design Research Group, Lecturer, Institute for Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University, received a grant to produce an annotated bibliography and research source guide on Norma Sklarek, the first African American woman member and fellow of the American Institute of Architects.  The Notre Dame Student Association for Women in Architecture (SAWA) at the School of Architecture, Notre Dame University, founded and headed by Maureen Ponto, received a grant to establish the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Lectures, which will highlight the careers and contributions of eminent women practitioners active during the mid-twentieth century.  Ellen Shoshkes, Architect, Planner, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Portland State University, received a grant to undertake archival research and conduct oral histories regarding Jacqueline Tyrwhitt (1905-1983), town planner, editor, and educator, as the beginning phase of Hidden Voice: the Contribution of Jacqueline Tyrwhitt to the Origins and Evolution of Urban Design in America, 1945-1976.  Thaisa Way, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle, received a grant towards a forthcoming monograph, Unbounded Practices: Women, Landscape Architecture, and Early Twentieth Century Design, to be published by the University of Virginia Press. The text emphasizes how women’s engagement in the American landscape profession—from its origins through modernism—has greatly shaped both the landscape and the profession.  Catherine Zipf, Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural and Historic Preservation, Salve Regina University, received a grant to implement the planning phases for the first retrospective on Chloethiel Woodard Smith, the prolific Washington-based architect active from the 1950s to the 1980s. America's Little House, Park Avenue, New York. Model home and garden sponsored by the Better Homes Commission, 1934. Garden designed by Annette Hoyt Flanders. Courtesy of Thaisa Way. The Brie-Fly recommends Vermont Ayr, made by Yale faculty and frommagier Maria Trumpler in small batches by hand that are aged slowly to develop the rind. This cow's milk cheese (named for the farm's Ayrshire cows) has a nutty, yet creamy flavor. To purchase, see the Crawford Family Farm website. To recommend a cheese, email the editor. News from BWAF Fellows Chaffee in the Desert Judith Chaffee's Ramada House. Esperdy: Keynote Speaker Gabrielle Esperdy was the keynote speaker at a Women’s History Month forum held at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where she just received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Architecture. Jane Jacobs' Theory-ographer Goes to Columbia Peter L. Laurence was appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban Design at Columbia University. He is completing his dissertation, "Urban Design Criticism: Jane Jacobs and the Development of U.S. Architectural Criticism and Urban Design Theory, 1935-1965," and preparing the manuscript for publication. [To read Laurence’s recent work, see www.bwaf.org/bibliography] Chapter on Catherine Bauer in Ashgate Anthology Cynthia Hammond’s essay, "Catherine Bauer: The Interior of Modernism," forms a chapter in the forthcoming Ashgate anthology, Craft, Space and Interior Design 1855-2005. Hammond was a speaker at the BWAF-sponsored symposium History, Herstories, Reappraising the Legacy of American Architecture at the National Building Museum in March 2007. Penick to co-chair "Women in the Wings" Monica Penick was selected as a participant in Columbia University’s prestigious Temple Hoyne Buell Center Dissertation Colloquium in April 2007, where she presented, "More than a Threat: Elizabeth Gordon and the Organic Renaissance." In 2008, Penick will co-chair "Women in the Wings," a session at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians. The paper submission deadline is August 17. See www.sah.org for more information. New Appointments Alexis Gregory attained a position as Professor of Architecture at the Savannah College of Art and Design in September 2006. Bobbye Tigerman is the new Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She published, 'I Am Not a Decorator': Florence Knoll, the Knoll Planning Unit, and the Making of the Modern Office, in the spring 2007 issue of the Journal of Design History. Christopher Macdonald, Professor, University of British Columbia School of Architecture, with co-author Kevin Alter, announce a forthcoming monograph, Judith Chaffee: Unreconstructed Modern. The monograph will document three houses designed by Chaffee, representing the breadth of invention she brought to three very different clients and three very different desert environments. Following their BWAF fellowship award, Macdonald and Alter were successful in securing a grant from the Graham Foundation. Cover image of the catalogue from, In Architecture: An Exhibition of Work by Women, sponsored by the New York Chapter of the AIA in 1974. Courtesy of Gabrielle Esperdy. Jane Jacobs at the 1958 Rockefeller Foundation / University of Pennsylvania Conference on Urban Design Criticism. Courtesy of Peter Laurence. 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