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Sokolina, Anna, ed. The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture. London and New York: Routledge, 2021, 2024.

— Working on this anthology has been a true joy of international collaboration and synergy. Most our authors, editors, and reviewers are long-term CAA and SAH members, recipients of many awards also contributing on various SAH and CAA Committees. I am sincerely grateful to my colleagues, now good friends, also for the creative editing support of chapters written by outstanding internationals contributors. At 2022 CAA Annual Conference this volume was featured among 2022 Top Ten Books on architecture published by Routledge, the book received positive reviews in several edited academic journals, and Publisher's Nomination for the SAH 2023 Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award

— At conferences we introduced our discoveries in sessions and key-talks. SAH Fellows and members of the Board have supported the book from 2018 to 2021 with graceful reviews, some 6 excerpts are published on Routledge / Taylor & Francis website open to all audiences. 

— The idea of this publication was conceived in conversations with colleagues at the International Archive of Women in Architecture at Virginia Tech. I am serving on the IAWA Board since 2002 when the IAWA founder and my dear friend and colleague Prof. Emerita Milka Bliznakov invited my election there as the first honorary advisor after the SAH Richmond Conference. In the book there are chapters by the prominent IAWA President Prof. Donna Dunay, and the IAWA Director Prof. Paola Zellner-Bassett uncovering IAWA’s amazing holdings. 

— Remarkable collections and museums across continents have provided us with copyright revelations, and deans of architecture schools, for instance Pratt’s much admired Dean Dr. Harriett Harriss, have generously contributed their chapters. Members of Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation have published their chapter on her trailblazing work in our book: ACSA Distinguished Prof. Kathryn H. Anthony and her wonderful associate. There are chapters introducing eye-opening discoveries and women’s diverse and broader professional narratives from Mongolia, Japan, Turkey, Israel, Europe, our sisters from both Americas and the African continent. — The Architectural Association in London organized our inaugural vibrant discussion a week after our book saw the light. 

— We went through two rounds of peer review by renowned academics, and two rounds of publisher’s editorial peer review, and the contents has been transformed, from my initial proposal of 2-volumes to 1-volume edition, many vital chapters introducing a variety of discoveries have been planned for the next edition. I wish we would have more space for publishing all proposed chapters, almost 60 we received, instead of 29. Due to formatting and time constrains we were not able to also include chapters by brilliant colleagues from Ukraine, South-Africa, and another Russian scholar. All our contributors have now developed their own books and award-winning programs.

 
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Brian Adams, Associate Scientist/Senior Research Archaeologist, Illinois State Archaeological Survey, received a PhD from the Anthropology Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; previously Assistant Director, Public Service Archaeology & Architecture Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he also supervised excavations in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, assisted with the analysis of lithic artifacts from these sites; and gained practical experience in cultural resource management in the Midwest. He is interested in historic preservation, has participated in several efforts to landmark historic structures, and has published extensively on related topics.

Kathryn H. Anthony is ACSA Distinguished Professor and the longest serving female faculty member at School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a PhD in Architecture and a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. She received national awards from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), and the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The first woman chairing the Design Program and the Building Research Council she has served as a national spokesperson about gender issues in design on ABC World News, CNN.com, National Public Radio (NPR), The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Economist, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, Time.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and lectured on designing for diversity at numerous venues worldwide. Author of over 100 publications; newest books are Defined by Design: The Surprising Power of Hidden Gender, Age and Body. Bias in Everyday Products and Places (Prometheus Books, 2017) and Shedding New Light on Art. Museum Additions: Front Stage and Back Stage Experiences (co-author Altaf Engineer, Routledge, 2018).

Nerma Cridge, PhD, was educated in architecture at the universities of Sarajevo, Birmingham, the Bartlett, and the Architectural Association in London, UK; participated in Antarctic expedition; in 1997 was Special Envoy to UNESCO; practiced at Thomas Heatherwick and art2architecture; currently teaches at the Architectural Association and Regents University in London, works on art and design projects as Director at Drawing Agency. Based on her PhD thesis on the drawings by the Soviet avant-garde, in 2015 Nerma published her first book, Drawing the Unbuildable; her forthcoming publications include “Intrinsically Interior,” in Interior Design Theory edited by Carola Ebert, and her second monograph, Politics of Abstraction, on the monuments and secret structures in ex-Yugoslavia.

Shailee Dave is an architect at a healthcare and senior living architecture firm in San Francisco; she holds a Masters in Architecture degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with an interest in the field of environment behavior, gender and race, and cinema in architecture. She received a Bachelor’s degree in architecture from Institute of Architecture HNGU, India, 2015, and while working and assisting Professor Kathryn H. Anthony in her academic groundwork, she represented the cause at a national level conference in 2017.

Sigal Davidi, architect and architectural historian at Tel Aviv University, holds a B.A and M.Sc. in Architecture from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (1993, 2001, both Cum laude), and a PhD from Tel Aviv University (2015). She received the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem PhD Dissertation Prize (2017) and the Goldberg Prize for an outstanding manuscript by the Open University of Israel (2018). Formerly Post-Doctoral Fellow at Technical University Berlin, Institute of Architecture (2018), and a visiting scholar at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at University of Pennsylvania (2019–20), she writes and lectures on the history of architecture in Israel, with a special interest in modern architecture and women architects in Palestine under the British Mandate (1920–1948); among her publications is “German and Austrian Women Architects in Mandatory Palestine” in Frau Architekt exhibition catalogue, ed. Mary Pepchinski, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt/Main (2017); her book on the work of women architects in pre-state Israel is in print.

Irina Davidovici is a Senior Researcher, Chair for the History and Theory of Urban Design, and coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. She completed her doctorate at the University of Cambridge, UK; her dissertation on contemporary German Swiss architecture received the RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis (2009). She was Harvard GSD Richard Rogers Fellow (2018), gta Postdoctoral Fellow (2016–2017), SNF Marie Heim-Vögtlin Fellow (2014–2016), and senior lecturer at Kingston University (2008–2013). Scholar of early history of urban housing, and the history of late 20th century Swiss architecture, she is the author of Forms of Practice. German-Swiss Architecture 1980–2000 (2012 and 2018) and editor of Colquhounery. Alan Colquhoun from Bricolage to Myth (2015).

Lauren Vollono Drapala is an architectural conservator and design historian who has worked on preservation projects throughout the United States. She is pursuing her PhD in History of Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture at the Bard Graduate Center, and holds a B.A. in Art History from Smith College (2008) and M.S. in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania (2010). She has published research on the twentieth century design, including contributions to the book Robert Winthrop Chanler: Discovering the Fantastic (Monacelli Press, 2016) and Macro to Micro: Examining Architectural Finishes (Archetype Publications, 2018), and an article with her mother, Millicent Vollono "Designing Suburbia: Olive Tjaden on Long Island" in Nassau County Historical Society Journal (2016).

Donna Dunay FAIA, Chair, International Archive of Women in Architecture Center (IAWA), ACSA Distinguished Professor, B.Arch. and M.Arch. Virginia Tech, brings to the profession an outstanding body of work that explores cultural and civic understanding in architecture through design research. Her work has gained a wide audience through her leadership of the IAWA; through research into town urbanism around the world, and her book, Town Architecture, articles, and presentations at numerous national and international events, she has contributed greatly to architecture in education and practice and the communities the profession serves.

Meral Ekincioglu, trained as architect, obtained her PhD in Architecture from Istanbul Technical University (2011), based on her academic research at Harvard University in Aga Khan History of Art and Architecture PhD Program (Special Turkish Fellow, 2006–07), and Columbia University GSAPP PhD Program (research scholar, 2008–09). At MIT–HTC Program, she conducted a research project “Women in Modern and Contemporary Territories of Turkish Architecture” and short documentary projects on immigrant and underrepresented communities in US architecture for the MIT-Archnet (2014–16), and holds a certificate from MIT-GCWS. She presented her work at MIT-HTC Program, MIT WGS Intellectual Forum Series, CUNY WGS Program, Harvard University, the IAWA Symposium, and the SAH 71 Annual International Conference.

Carmen Espegel is an architect with her own office espegel-fisac arquitectos, and Professor at the School of Architecture of Madrid, Spain (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura ETSAM at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid UPM). Her PhD thesis (1997) with research focus on women in architecture resulted in several book publications, Women Architects in the Modern Movement (Routledge, 2018), Eileen Gray: Objects and Furniture Design (Polígrafa, 2013), and Aires Modernos: E.1027 by Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici (Mairea Libros, 2010). She leads the Research Group “Collective Housing,” Grupo de Investigación en Vivienda Colectiva GIVCO; lectures worldwide, teaches international masters and doctorate courses; her practice founded 2003 with Concha Fisac, received numerous awards highlighted in books and professional journals. Among her seminal books are Collective Housing in Spain 1992–2015 (TC Cuadernos, 2016), and Collective Housing in Spain XX Century (1929–1992) (TC Cuadernos, 2013).

Catherine R. Ettinger, PhD is Professor of Architecture at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico. She has published widely on early twentieth century architecture with particular interest in the circulation of ideas between the United States and Mexico. Her recent publications include La arquitectura mexicana desde afuera published by Porrúa (2017) and Richard Neutra y América Latina by Arquitónica (2018).

Katia Frey, PhD is an art historian with research interests in the field of history and theory of urban design, in particular in sociocultural aspects, circulation of ideas, and urban green. Current projects with focus on gender topics in architecture and planning include the research initiative “Women Writing on City and Urban Design,” also “Flora Ruchat-Roncati at ETH 1985–2002. Professor, Planner, Theoretician” hosted by ETH Zurich, and the collaborative research work on Saffa 1958. A national platform for Swiss women architects and designers, hosted by Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur.

Jan Frohburg teaches design studio and lectures on the history and theory of twentieth-century modern architecture at the newly established School of Architecture at the University of Limerick. A graduate from the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany, he studied, practiced, and taught architecture in Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States. His research interests include design education and the spatial expression of modernity focusing on concepts characteristic to the work of Mies van der Rohe; his doctoral thesis interrogates Mies’s Concert Hall collage of 1942 and the conditions that enabled its production at a turning point in the architect’s career. Published nationally and internationally, Jan remains in creative practice and contributes regularly to the All-Ireland Architecture Research Group, continuing to explore the past and present of modern architecture in Ireland.

Diane Elliott Gayer AIA is an architect, urban and environmental designer, writer, artist, and UIFA member. She is curator and director of the GreenTara Space Gallery in North Hero, Vermont. Her publications include the book Of Earth and Being, published by the Vermont Design Institute (2017), a reflection on a personal journey by the author through time and place, a limited-edition photography volume containing a collection of photos and essays, and a monograph Groundswell (Vermont Design Institute, 2003), a handbook on sustainable design practices and community design charrettes.

Marieke Gruwel is an architectural historian based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She holds a master’s degree in Art History from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, supported by a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, and B.A. Hon. Degree from the University of Winnipeg. Gruwel works at the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation (WAF), with whom she has produced publications and curated a series of exhibitions, including Cover Girls: Women, Advertising, and Architecture. Gruwel is a recipient of the Mayor’s Medal, presented by the University of Winnipeg and the City of Winnipeg.

Harriet Harriss, RIBA, PFHEA, PhD, is a qualified architect and Dean of the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute in NYC. Prior to this, she led the Architecture Research Programs at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. Her teaching, research, and writing focus upon pioneering new pedagogic models for design education as captured in Radical Pedagogies: Architectural Education & the British Tradition (2015). Her book, A Gendered Profession (2016) asserts the need for widening participation as a means to ensure profession remains as diverse as the society it seeks to serve. Dean Harriss has won various awards including a Brookes Teaching Fellowship, a Higher Education Academy Internationalisation Award, Churchill Fellowship, two Santander awards, two Diawa awards, and a NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and Art) Pioneer Award, and Clore Fellowship (2016–17). She was elected to the European Association of Architectural Education Council (2017), and awarded a Principal Fellowship of the UK’s Higher Education Academy (2018); public consultancy roles include writing national construction curriculum for the UK government’s Department for Education and international program validations and pedagogy design and development internationally. Dean Harriss has spoken across a range of media channels (from the BBC to TEDx) on the wider issues facing the built environment; is a recognized advocate for design education, and was nominated by Dezeen as a champion for women in architecture and design in 2019.

Rixt Hoekstra is an architectural historian. She holds a PhD in Architectural History (2006) from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands with a dissertation thesis investigating the work of architect and historian Manfredo Tafuri, and is a senior lecturer in Creative Technology at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Her academic interests are focused on the nexus of modern architectural theory, historiography, and gender studies. Study presented in her chapter contributes to ongoing research for a monograph about the Dutch architect Han Schröder.

Mary Anne Hunting is an architectural historian in New York City. She holds a PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a master’s degree in the history of decorative arts from Parsons. She is recognized for her book, Edward Durell Stone: Modernism’s Populist Architect (W.W. Norton, 2013) and is co-author, with Dr. Kevin Murphy, of the book, Women Architects in Practice: Pathways in American Modernism (Princeton University Press, forthcoming).

Margaret (Molly) Lester is a Research Associate for PennPraxis (extension of Stuart Weitzman School of Design at University of Pennsylvania), a 2019 Fellow for the James Marston Fitch Foundation, leading an independent research and media project exploring the career of architect Minerva Parker Nichols, and a 2020 grantee of the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation. Her portfolio includes architectural history research, documentation, and preservation planning projects related to 18th–20th-century historic buildings and cultural landscapes. She holds a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania (2012) and a Bachelor of Architectural History from the University of Virginia (2008). She is a contributor to Hidden City Daily in Philadelphia, a former co-chair of the Young Friends of the Preservation Alliance, and the founder of the InKind Baking Project.

Erin McKellar, PhD, is Assistant Curator, Exhibitions at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. She is broadly interested in the role of women and children in architecture and the intersection of architecture and politics, particularly in the design cultures of the 1930s and 1940s. Recent publications include essays in the Journal of Design History and in the collections Suffragette City: Women, Politics and the Built Environment (Routledge, 2020) and The Housing Project: Discourses, Ideals, Models and Politics in 20th Century Exhibitions (University of Leuven Press, 2020). She has previously been a fellow of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London and the Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies at Cornell University in New York.

Kevin D. Murphy is the Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor and Chair in the Department of History of Art at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of books, articles, and edited volumes in European and American architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the coauthor, with Dr. Mary Anne Hunting, of Women Architects in Practice: Pathways in American Modernism (Princeton University Press, forthcoming).

Katherine K. Papineau, PhD, is Associate Professor of Art and Architectural History and Assistant Dean at California Baptist University College of Architecture, Visual Arts + Design (B.A., Wellesley College 2004, M.A., PhD University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013). Her research interests include the development of the modern home in post-war America, domesticity, the interior, collecting, consumption and display, and publications include contributions to Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch House (2012), Walter S. White: Inventions in Mid-Century Architecture (2016) and “Eames House” and “Stahl House” essays in the SAH Archipedia project.

Tanja Poppelreuter is a Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the University of Salford, Manchester. Her research interests lie in the field of twentieth-century art and architectural history and theory with the focus on the perceptions and development of architectural space, German-speaking architects who fled the Nazi regime, and women in architecture. Graduated with a PhD in Art History from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main Germany, she is the editor of the book Glamour and Gloom that discusses the modern architecture of the 1930s in Belfast and has published on refugee architects to New Zealand and to the United States, discussed ambitious projects to modernize Baghdad during the 1950s, and analyzed projects by modernist architects such as Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. She is a member of the Board of Advisors of the International Archives of Women in Architecture (IAWA) in Blacksburg, Virginia, and has been a member of the Historic Buildings Council in Belfast since 2016.

Kate Reggev AIA, is an architect, architectural historian, design writer, and educator specializing in preservation and adaptive reuse. She is an Associate at the New York firm of Beyer Blinder Belle, where she works on cultural, institutional, and civic projects that provide lasting and meaningful public benefit. Kate is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she teaches in the Preservation program, has lectured about preservation and architectural history across the country, and also writes about design for Architectural Digest, Dwell, and other industry publications. She holds a Master of Science in Historic Preservation and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, cum laude, from Barnard College, Columbia University of the City of New York.

Shelley E. Roff, an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, completed her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University in 2002 and currently engages research on the architecture of medieval and early modern Spain and pre-modern women working in the building-related crafts and construction in Europe. She has published in Women and Wealth in Medieval Europe, ed. Theresa Earenfight (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010); her forthcoming book, Treasure of the City: The Public Sphere and Civic Urbanism in Late Medieval Barcelona, was funded by a 2019 NEH Faculty Award for Hispanic-Serving Institutions.

Rebecca Siefert is Assistant Professor of Art History at Governors State University in University Park, Illinois, USA. She earned her PhD in Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (2018) where she focused on the history of twentieth-century art, architecture, and film. Her primary area of research comprises women in architecture who have been overlooked by mainstream scholarship, especially those involved in the debates surrounding public housing. She has contributed to The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, and her monograph on the contemporary architect and artist Lauretta Vinciarelli, Into the Light: The Art and Architecture of Lauretta Vinciarelli, was published by Lund Humphries in 2020.

Anna Sokolina is an architect, historian, and curator, founding Chair of SAH Women in Architecture AG, also contributes on advisory boards of the International Archive of Women in Architecture, and Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture; PhD (1992) in Theory and History of Architecture and Landmarks Preservation from the VNIITAG branch of Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences. New York University SPS (2001), and Moscow Institute of Architecture (1980) graduate; interned at Guggenheim Museum New York, Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and Public Design Commission at NYC Mayor’s Office; contributed at Metropolitan Museum of Art (1999–2007), Morgan Library and Museum, and ARTMargins; formerly: architect/research associate at CNIITIA/VNIITAG, Curator of Exhibitions at Tabakman Museum, and architecture faculty at Miami University where she also curated Cage Gallery. First independent woman curator of itinerant Russian Paper Architecture exhibitions in Germany and France (1992–93); received 17 grants and awards; her 104 artworks are housed in 23 collections, over 90 publications include Architecture and Anthroposophy (ed., 2001, 2010, e-access 2019); books in progress: Building Utopia: Architecture of the GDR, and M. Bliznakov’s volume In Search for a Style (ed.).

Margaret Birney Vickery, an architectural historian, educator, and curator, is a lecturer in the History of Art and Architecture Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned her BA from Oberlin College (1985) and a PhD from Stanford University (1993). Her research is focused on the architecture of women’s colleges in nineteenth century England, where she lived and worked on her dissertation, also, on campus architecture, women’s education, Victorian architecture, and contemporary and sustainable architecture. Her publications include Buildings for Bluestockings: The Architecture and Social History of Women’s Colleges in Late Victorian England, (University of Delaware Press, 2000) and Campus Guide: Smith College (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007); in 2008–10, she developed an exhibition, Greening the Valley: Sustainable Architecture in the Pioneer Valley at the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst. Her most recent books: Landscape and Infra
structure: Re-Imagining the Pastoral Paradigm for the 21 Century (Bloomsbury Press, 2019) and (Translations) Architecture/Art: Works of Sigrid Miller Pollin (ORO Publications, 2020).

Millicent Danziger Vollono, a researcher and author whose passions include local history, early music, and genealogy, holds degrees from Hofstra University (B.A. Music, 1973; M.A. Humanities, 1976) and Long Island University (M.S. Library Science, 1981), and is enthusiastic about uncovering the lost world of Long Island's history. Her publications include: The Five Towns (Arcadia Publishing, 2010); a commemorative edition A Brief History of the Village of Woodsburgh (2012); "Robert Burton's Woodmere" in Gardens of Eden: Long Island's Early Twentieth-Century Planned Communities (W.W. Norton, 2015), "Designing Suburbia: Olive Tjaden on Long Island" (2016), and "Zonta Club on Long Island" (2019) in Nassau County Historical Society Journal.

Volker M. Welter is Professor at the Department of the History of Art & Architecture, University of California at Santa Barbara, his research interests focus on domestic architecture, patronage, histories of modernism, revivalism, sustainability, and historiography of modern architecture. He studied architecture at Technische Universität Berlin, and holds a PhD in History of Architecture from University of Edinburgh (1997); received grants and fellowships from the Getty Grant Program, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and Centre Canadien d'Architecture, Montreal; among his book publications are Biopolis: Patrick Geddes and the City of Life (Cambridge MA, 2002), Ernst L. Freud, Architect: The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home (Oxford, 2012), Walter S. White: Inventions in Mid-Century Modernism (UCSB, 2015), and Tremaine Houses: One Family’s Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury America (Getty, 2019); current book-in-progress delves on longitudinal study of a three-generation Santa Barbara architecture office that between 1916 and 1984 was run by George Washington Smith, Lutah Maria Riggs, and Riggs & Arvin B. Shaw.

Christopher S. Wilson is an Architecture and Design Historian at Ringling College of Art + Design, Sarasota, FL, USA. He holds a B.Arch. from Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (1992); an M.A. in the Histories and Theories of Architecture, from The Architectural Association, London, UK (1997); and a PhD in Architecture from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (2007). Wilson worked as an architect in Philadelphia, Berlin, and London, and is registered with the RIBA. Among his publications is Beyond Anıtkabir: The Funerary Architecture of Atatürk. The Construction and Maintenance of National Memory (Ashgate, 2013). Dr. Wilson is an expert on "The Sarasota School." He has been a board member of the Sarasota Architectural Foundation since 2012, serving as Board Chair 2017–2020, and has written the Sarasota chapter in a monograph on the life and work of Sarasota School architect Victor Lundy, Victor Lundy: Artist Architect (Princeton Architectural Press, 2018).

Rylee S. Woodcock is California Baptist University College of Architecture, Visual Arts + Design graduate student in architecture assisting Professor Katherine Papineau in research of the life and work of Lois Davidson Gottlieb. Her academic interests focus on mid-century residential design, specifically analyzing place-making using empathetic research methods.

Paola Zellner is an Argentine architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Tech, as well as a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Advisors of the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA). 30 x 30, one of several initiatives she leads in the IAWA Center, has been displayed nationally and internationally with accompanying presentations at the 18th L’Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes (UIFA) Congress, the XV Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura in Buenos Aires, the All Ireland Architecture Research Group (AIARG) 2016 conference, the 2016 IAWA Symposium; in the Kibel Gallery at the University of Maryland, and at The American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Headquarters in Washington DC, where it launched during the AIA Women’s Leadership Summit.

Board of Chapter Editors

Christina E. Crawford, Editor
Catherine R. Ettinger, Editor and Contributor
Rebecca Siefert, Editor and Contributor
Anna Sokolina, Chair of the Board and Contributor
Margaret Birney Vickery, Editor and Contributor
Danielle S. Willkens, Editor

Chapter Editors (who are not chapter contributors)

Christina E. Crawford is an architectural and urban historian, a licensed architect, and Assistant Professor of architectural history at Emory University. She received her PhD and M.Arch from Harvard University, and her BA from Yale University. Her monograph Spatial Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2021) explores the foundations of early Soviet urban theory and practice, and new research explores interwar exchanges of housing expertise between the US and Europe, using Atlanta as a primary node. Her scholarly writing can be found in Future Anterior, Harvard Design Magazine, Journal of Architectural Education, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Journal of Urban History. Her research has been supported by a Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art, the College Art Association’s Millard Meiss grant, the Fulbright Program, the International Planning History Society, the Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture, the Weatherhead Institute, and the Davis Center at Harvard.

Danielle S. Willkens, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP BD+C is an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture where she teaches architectural history and design studios. She holds a PhD in Architectural History & Theory from the Bartlett School of Architecture, as well as a M.Arch and BS from the University of Virginia and a M.Phil in Architectural History from Cambridge University. As a practicing designer, researcher, and FAA Certified Remote Pilot, she is particularly interested in bringing architectural engagement to diverse audiences through interactive digital visualization. She was the 2015 recipient of the Society of Architectural Historians' H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship and her research into transatlantic design exchange has been supported by the Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation, the International Center for Jefferson Studies, and an American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant.