OWA Book Circle READ & DISCUSS OWA 2010-2011 WOMEN+Architecture BOOK CIRCLES Facilitator: Wendy Bertrand Place: Noe Valley, SF Budget $1000 (as approved Nov 6, 2010) INTENT: OWA members read and discuss three books linking women & architecture and donate books to environmental design libraries at the end of one year, leaving time for OWA members not in circles to read them by request. CONCEPT: Small groups (minimum 5, maximum 7 OWA members and 1 potential member) to meet three times in 2011, January, March, and November to discuss books about women and architecture (the profession, the built world, the history, the education, the theory, and the cultural impact). Sign-up now! SCHEDULE 2010 You must let Wendy know if you want to be a member of the book circles at eyeonplace@gmail.com or 415-648-2713 There are a few places, and a waiting list will be started. December: Members get 1st book to read 2011 January First Circle: 6PM- 8:30PM Tuesday, January 20 March Second Circle 6PM-8PM Tuesday March 17 November Third Circle 6PM-8PM Tuesday, November 10 First book for OWA Book Circles: Early Women Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area: The Lives and Work of Fifty Professionals, 1890-1951 by Inge Horton, McFarland & Company, North Carolina, 2010. Possible titles to be decided on by members for circles 2 and 3: Building Sex: Men, Women, Architecture, and the Construction of Sexuality by Aaron Betsky (William Morrow and Company, 1995) A good introduction to why architecture is so masculine. Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-made Environment by Leslie Kanes Weisman (Urbana: University of Chicago Press, 1992). Weisman teaches and writes about new social values related to woman’s issues and social justice, in great need of being reflected in our buildings and places. THREADS: Insights by Women Architects, editors, Celine Pinet and Kimberly Devlin (Center for Architecture and Urban Planning Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 1991). Scholarly essays about planning and architecture Architecture and Feminism by Debra Coleman, Elizabeth Danze, and Carol Henderson, editors (Yale Publications on Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, 1996), with an introduction and nine interesting essays. The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice essays edited by Fancesca Hughes (The MIT Press, 1996). Twelve authors teaching and practicing architecture tell what it is like for them at the cutting edgeof design. Architecture: A Place for Women, edited by Ellen Perry Berkeley with Mildred McQuaid as Associate Editor (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989) collected real stories by twelve women in architecture.
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Newsletter | Nov/Dec 2010
