Slide 1

Library Display: a Collaborative Story

Slide 2

write women August-December 2010 prominent women writers who have influenced the design professions in the following areas: feminist space historical criticism urban design environmental impact

Slide 3

Library Display: a Collaborative Story write women August-December 2010 prominent women writers who have influenced the design professions in the following areas: feminist space historical criticism urban design environmental impact

Slide 4

Library Display: a Collaborative Story write women August-December 2010 prominent women writers who have influenced the design professions in the following areas: feminist space historical criticism urban design environmental impact process

Slide 5

window case - exteriorwindow case - interior display areas in our library

Slide 6

plinths & wallflat cases & wall display areas in our library

Slide 7

add water lecture literature typical display

Slide 8

add water quick assemblage mostly visual few months unannounced lecture literature typical display

Slide 9

add water quick assemblage mostly visual few months unannounced lecture literature books & journals on invited lecturer 7 10 days announced to SALA faculty & students typical display

Slide 10

department work plan individual work plans genesis

Slide 11

department work plan engage Arch & LArch departments collaborative diversity project individual work plans genesis

Slide 12

department work plan engage Arch & LArch departments collaborative diversity project individual work plans in depth display part time staff asking for creative tasks genesis

Slide 13

selecting theme influential women writers initial research & list full time staff 10 authors polling faculty & staff 46 authors from 12 faculty paring list down full time staff 21 authors 4 categories feminist space historical criticism urban design environmental impact process

Slide 14

research & writing content full time & level 3 brief biography historical impact featured writings editing & tweaking full time staff creating & assembling full time, level 3 & level 2 one illustrated panel per author supporting images digital picture frame signage, captions, etc assembled featured writings process

Slide 15

publicity PRaM brochure & Interview Collegian, Nov. 9 th 2010 timeline started research in Feb 2010 opened in Aug 2010 closed end of Dec 2010 process

Slide 16

lessons learned a lot of work start early with a realistic timeline communication & deadlines tough to make text heavy display visually interesting proof read, proof reed, prooffread, proofread publicity helps

Slide 17

the upside good response from SALA faculty staff pushed their envelope well received by library patrons high "annual report" value will archive in the CMS

Slide 18

feminist space Catharine Beecher (1800-1878) The American Womans Home Jane Addams (1860-1935) Twenty Years at Hull-House The Second Twenty Years at Hull- House Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) The Home: Its Work and Influence Utopian Novels: Moving the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland Beatriz Colomina Domesticity at War The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism in Sexuality and Space

Slide 19

historical criticism Louisa C. Tuthill (1799-1879) History of Architecture from the Earliest Times Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851- 1934) Accents as Well as Broad Effects: Writings on Architecture, Landscape, and the Environment Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) The Stones of Florence Venice Observed Ada Louise Huxtable (1921- ) Goodbye History, Hello Hamburger Kicked a Building Lately? Dana Cuff (1953- ) Architecture: The Story of Practice

Slide 20

urban design Theodora Kimball Hubbard (1887-1935) Our Cities To-day and To-morrow Catherine Bauer Wurster (1905-1964) Modern Housing Jane Jacobs (1918-2006) The Death and Life of Great American Cities Denise Scott Brown (1931- ) Learning from Las Vegas Dolores Hayden (1950- ) Power of Place: Urban Landscape as Public History Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (1950- ) Towns and Town-making Principles Setha Low On the Plaza

Slide 21

environmental impact May Thielgaard Watts (1893-1975) Reading the Landscape of America Rachel Carson (1907-1964) Silent Spring The Sea Around Us Anne Whiston Spirn The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design The Language of Landscape Elizabeth Meyer The Expanded Field of Landscape Architecture "Post-Earth Day Conundrum: Translating Environmental Values into Landscape Design

Slide 22

write women further reading Berkeley, Ellen Perry, ed. Architecture : A Place for Women. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. Cole, Doris. From Tipi to Skyscraper : A History of Women in Architecture. Boston: i press; distributed by G. Braziller, New York, 1973. Favro, Diane. "Women Write: The Shaping of American Architecture by Female Authors." Architecture California v.18, n.2 (1996-1997): 40-51. Norwood, Vera. Made From This Earth: American Women and Nature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Oldershaw, Barbara. "Developing a Feminist Critique of Architecture." Design Book Review n.25 (1992): 7-15. Sherman, Claire Richter, ed. Women as Interpreters of the Visual Arts. 1820-1979 Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981. Torre, Susana, ed. Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1977. Van Slyck, Abigail A. "Women in Architecture and the Problem of Biography." Design Book Review n.25 (1992): 19-22. Wright, Gwendolyn. On the Fringe of the Profession: Women in American Architecture. In The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession, edited by Spiro Kostoff, 208-308. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.