Museum Events

June 10, 2009

Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 6:30PM
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Fifth Avenue at 89th Street, New York
Honoring Taliesin Fellow Lois Gottlieb, this special evening program featured the premier of “A Girl Is A Fellow Here”: 100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, a new 15-minute documentary film produced by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. Moderator Suzannah Lessard with panelists Gwendolyn Wright and Carol Gilligan explored the how and why writers choose or avoid a particular aspect of their narrative. How, they asked, could such an important legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright – the 100 women who worked in his studio – remain overlooked or ignored.
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June 11, 2009

Thursday, June 11, 2009, 10-1
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
For informtation, contact director@bwaf.org
The Architecture of Writing, Part II presented a full morning of investigation into the creative and collaborative world of women architects, designers and landscape architects. What are the most effective critical models for writing about women and their impact on the built environment? What do different theories and methods offer the feminist historian of architecture? And how do we as historians go about the challenging task of writing about women in the design professions? Through these questions, four BWAF Fellows used their own experiences as researchers and writers to explore the various approaches when it comes to the crucial matter of writing women into the annals of history. The Architecture of Writing, Part II marks the third biennial BWAF Fellows' Colloquium, a series designed to engage scholars, practitioners and BWAF Fellows in issues pertinent to the Foundation and to the historiography of architecture.
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