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Rebecca Wood Watkin Architectural Drawings

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Identifier: Ms-1995-009

Abstract Rebecca Wood Watkin was born in 1913 in Portland, Oregon. She earned a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1933, and a B. Arch. from the Architecture School of the University of Pennsylvania. She returned to the west coast, and worked in other architects' offices during the 1930s and 1940s. She earned her California Architectural license in 1944 and opened her own practice in 1951. The collection consists of architectural drawings of remodelings, alterations, additions, and new designs of...

Dates: 1940-1989, 2011

Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech

Hilde Weström Architectural Collection

Collection

Identifier: Ms-1987-061

Abstract

The Hilde Weström Architectural Collection consists of biographical information about Weström's career and personal life, original watercolors she painted after her retirement, articles written by her and about her, photographs of Weström and her buildings, architectural drawings for nine of her projects, and some professional conference papers presented by other women at the 1984 UIFA meeting in Berlin. Weström (b. 1912) was an architect in Berlin, Germany.

Dates: 1952 - 2000

Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech

Beverly Willis Architectural Collection

Collection

Identifier: Ms-1992-019

Scope and Contents The Beverly Willis Architectural Collection span the years 1954 to 1999 and are comprised primarily of records documenting Willis' work as an architect in San Francisco between 1960 and 1990. The collection documents the application of computers to architectural design and land analysis, the development of CARLA (Computerized Approach to Residential Land Analysis) in the 1970s, the history of twentieth-century urban planning, particularly in San Francisco; and the contribution of women to...

Dates: 1954 - 1999

Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech

Zelma Wilson Architectural Collection

Collection

Identifier: Ms-1991-046

Abstract Wilson (1918-1996) an architect in Ojai, CA was born in New York City but later relocated to Southern California. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley, 1937-1940; later the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 1941; and graduated with a B. Arch from University of Southern California in 1947. Wilson’s collection encompasses three decades of work that range from her academic through professional career—including her experience of operating her own firm. Her...

Dates: 1940 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1969 - 1991

Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech

Women's Development Corporation Records

Collection

Identifier: Ms-2016-012

Abstract

The Women’s Development Corporation (WDC) is a Rhode Island based housing developer and non-profit founded by a group of architects, designers, community planners, and historic preservation professionals. These records document select activities of the WDC from 1979-2015.

Dates: 1979 - 2015

Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech

Jean Linden Young Papers

Collection

Identifier: Ms-1998-022

Abstract Jean Alice Linden was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 15, 1922. She became a registered architect of Washington state in 1955 and established her own private practice in 1976. Her designs were almost all private residences, apartment buildings, and small commercial structures in the Seattle area. The Jean Linden Young Papers consist of materials created and collected by Young during her lifetime. They include notes written as an instructor at the University of Kentucky, newspaper...

Dates: 1945 - 1997

Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech

Czeslawa Zielinska Architectural Collection

Collection

Identifier: Ms-2005-017

Abstract

Czeslawa Zielinska is a Polish-born Canadian architect and the inventor the GETSET Building System and, with her husband Zenon, of the UCOPAN, a pre-cast concrete building system. The collection includes promotional material, published articles, and booklets about UCOPAN as well as copies of landscape and building sketches drawn during her travels.

Dates: 1964 - 2005; Majority of material found within ( 1966-1979)

Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech

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Rebecca Wood Watkin Architectural Drawings

Hilde Weström Architectural Collection

Beverly Willis Architectural Collection

Zelma Wilson Architectural Collection

Women's Development Corporation Records

Jean Linden Young Papers

Czeslawa Zielinska Architectural Collection

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