Women in Architecture Midterm Flashcard Set 1

Hadice Turhan Sultan (patron), Yeni Mosque, Hünkâr Kasri pavilion, Istanbul, c. 1660

Left: George Elgar Hicks, A Woman’s Mission, 1863

Right: Coventry Patmore, “An Angel in the House”, 1854

Richard Norman Shaw, Leyswood, Surrey, 1868

J.J. Stevenson, Colin Hunter’s House and studio, Kensington, London, 1877, Queen Anne Style

Richard Redgrave, The Governess, 1844

Basil Champneys, Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College, Cambridge, 1880

William Crossland, Royal Holloway College, Surrey, England, 1886, founded by Thomas Holloway

James Renwick, Old Main, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1865, founded by Matthew Vassar

Peabody & Stearns, Hatfield Hall, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1877

William Brocklesby, Tyler House, Smith College, 1897

Philip Webb, Red House, Bexleyheath, England, 1859

May Morris, “Maids of Honor”, embroidery, 1890

Mary Seton Watts, Watts Mortuary Chapel, Surrey, 1898

Ponds & Ponds Architects, Hull House, Chicago, c. 1920

Wilson Cooke, Booker T. Washington Hall, Voorhees University, 1905

Sophia Hayden, Woman’s Building, Chicago World’s Fair, 1893

R.A. and Louise Bethune Architects, Hotel Lafayette, Chicago, 1904

Theodate Pope Riddle, Avon Old Farms Schools, Chapel (originally the Carpenter’s Shop), Avon, CT, 1927

Julia Morgan, Hearst Castle, San Simeon, 1919-1940

Marion Mahony, Adolph Mueller House, 1910

Gunta Stölzl, Tapestry, 1927-28

Marianne Brandt, desk lamp, c. 1927

Gerritt Rietveld and Truus Schröder, Schröder House, Utrecht, Netherlands, 1924

Transat Chair and Interior Design and Furnishings Shop

Eileen Gray, E.1027, Roquebrune, France, 1926-29

Eleanor Raymond, Rachel Raymond House, Belmont, MA_, 1931

Amaza Lee Meredith, Azurest South, Petersburg, VA, 1939

In Ancient Greek custom, the family, the family’s property, and their house. Included Andron (male only space for symposium) and Gyneceum (general areas where women lived/worked)

Oikos

A space or occasion where Ancient Greek men would gather for discussion, business, or leisure. Women were only allowed as servants or for men’s pleasure.

Symposium

In traditional domestic Islamic architecture, a sacred precinct.

Harim (haram)

Critic of art, architecture, industry, and society. Highlighted traditional ways and hand-crafted work. Advocated for better schooling for girls.

John Ruskin

Poem by Coventry Patmore about the role of a woman in a man’s life, depicting very traditional and restrictive views on women’s role in the home and society.

“Angel in the House”

Style defined by tile hung gables and exposed half-timbering. Inspired by traditional English architecture, but used in a modern setting during Victorian era due to its evocation of a rural, quaint domesticity.

Old English Style of architecture

Style defined by red brick facades, curving gables, and symmetry. It is not quite Classical or Gothic, but borrows slight elements from both. It is largely inspired by the Kew Palace, 1631.

Queen Anne Style of architecture

Founder of Girton College and advocate for women’s education. Claimed that college education was not a way to replace domestic lives of women, but to improve them.

Emily Davies

A union that was part of a movement to make women’s clothing elegant without it being constrictive, uncomfortable, or extremely skinny. A notable member of the union was May Morris.

Healthy and Artistic Dress Union, London, 1890

A charitable institution in London, where university students would live, support, and educate immigrants and people in poverty. Kickstarted the settlement movement.

Toynbee Hall

Social reformer who lobbied for improved juvenile court system, urban sanitation, safer factory laws, labor legislation for women and children, playground and park construction, women’s suffrage. Created the Hull House

Jane Addams

Tuskegee Institute alum inspired by Booker T. Washington to encourage education. Founded and became the first black principal of a black private school in South Carolina (now Voorhees University)

Elizabeth Evelyn Wright

Itinerant preacher and founder of the Manassas Industrial School. Born into slavery, but was able to travel, preach, educate.

Jennie Dean

Style of architecture which arose along with Bauhaus principles in the 1920s-30s. It focused on functional design, modern building tactics and materials, and rejecting ornament.

The International Style

The first graduate architectural school in America only for women. Eventually it was purchased by Smith College.

The Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Architect and editor of House Beautiful Magazine. One of first Cambridge School graduates. With the magazine, she promoted

Ethel Power

The idea that “whosoever, man or woman, lives in a small dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it. The woman is narrowed by the home and the man is narrowed by the woman.”

Material Feminists