Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism by Hunting, Mary Anne
Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism by Hunting, Mary Anne

Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism

A comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American Modernism In the...
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Author: Mary Anne Hunting
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Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism by Hunting, Mary Anne

Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism

$732.07
Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism by Hunting, Mary Anne

Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism

$732.07
Author: Mary Anne Hunting
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American Modernism

In the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily. Women Architects at Work tells the stories of the resilient and resourceful women who surmounted barriers of sexism, racism, and classism to take on crucial roles in the establishment and growth of Modernism across the United States.

Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy describe how the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in Massachusetts evolved for the professional education of women between 1916 and 1942. While alumnae such as Eleanor Agnes Raymond, Victorine du Pont Homsey, and Sarah Pillsbury Harkness achieved some notoriety, others like Elizabeth-Ann Campbell Knapp and Louisa Vaughan Conrad have been largely absent from histories of Modernism. Hunting and Murphy describe how these innovative practitioners capitalized on social, educational, and professional ties to achieve success and used architecture to address social concerns, including how modernist ideas could engage with community and the environment. Some joined women-led architectural firms while others partnered with men or contributed to Modernism as retailers of household furnishings, writers and educators, photographers and designers, or fine artists.

With stunning illustrations, Women Architects at Work offers new histories of recognized figures while recovering the stories of previously unsung women, all of whom contributed to the modernization of American architecture and design.

Author: Mary Anne Hunting, Kevin D. Murphy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 02/18/2025
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.30lbs
Size: 11.10h x 9.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780691206691


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2025
Library Journal 01/01/2025 pg. 68

About the Author
Mary Anne Hunting is an architectural historian and the author of Edward Durell Stone: Modernism's Populist Architect. Kevin D. Murphy is the Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and professor and chair in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Vanderbilt University. His books include Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine: Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier.
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