Developing a Regional Perspective by Tracing Forgotten Architects and Design Professionals: Women with T-Squares

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Developing a Regional Perspective by Tracing
Forgotten Architects and Design
ProfessionalsWomen with T-Squares

• Gail McMillan
• Digital Library and Archives http//scholar.lib.v
  t.edu
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
  University
• Virginia Humanities Conference
• March 18, 2005

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International Archive of Women in
Architecture

• http//spec.lib.vt.edu/iawa

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7 Women with T-Squares
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Harriet Abigail Morrison Irwin (1828-1897)
912 W. 5th Street, Charlotte

• Hexagonal house, Aug. 24, 1869
• First woman to patent an architectural
  innovation for a dwelling
• Economizes space, building materials, and heat
  good lighting and ventilation easier to clean

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Henrietta Cuttino Dozier (1872-1947)

• MIT BS in Architecture in four years,1899
• 1of 3 women admitted
• Only woman to graduate among 175 men
• 3rd woman to join the AIA 1st woman from the
  South
• Founding member of the Georgia AIA
• Only woman recognized among 16 prominent
  Jacksonville, Florida, architects

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Leila Ross Wilburn(1885-1965) 1913 Piedmont
Park Apartments, Atlanta, GA
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Amaza Lee Meredith(1895-1984)

• Azurest South

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Gertie Besosa-Silva (1923-1983)
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Lolly Tai

• Ph.D, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
• MLA, Harvard University
• BSLA, Cornell University
• 1988, new Department of Planning and Landscape
  Architecture in the College of Architecture,
  Arts, and Humanities, Clemson University
• 2002, Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture
  and Horticulture, Temple University

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Hilton Head Island Town Hall Xeriscape
Interpretive Garden, 1995 Honor Award American
Society of Landscape Architecture, SC
Chapter Honorable Mention for Land
Stewardship SC Land Resources Conservation
Commission
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Leslie N. Sharp

• MA Middle Tennessee State
• University 2002
• Historic preservation, graduate thesis on public
  history
• Coordinator for the Historic Preservation
  Division of the Georgia Department of Natural
  Resources
• National Register of Historic Places
• Georgia Womens History Initiative
• Georgia Tech
• PhD in History links between gender, technology,
  and architecture
• Women shaping shelter technology, consumption,
  and the twentieth- century house