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International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 258 Collections and/or Records:

Rebecca Wood Watkin Architectural Drawings

 File
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 / Rebecca Wood Watkin Architectural Drawings

Pamela Webb Architectural Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-099
Abstract

The Pamela Webb Architectural Collection contains the professional files, architectural drawings, artwork, and photographs of an architect working primarily in Portland, Oregon, during the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1950 - 2009
Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech / Pamela Webb Architectural Collection,

Hilde Weström Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-061
Abstract

This collection contains the paper of Hilde Weström who was born 1912 in Neisse, Upper Silesia, Germany. She was an architect of Berlin, Germany. The materials in the collection include biographical information, articles, photographs of Weström and her designs, and architectural drawings for nine projects (1954-1970).

Dates: 1952 - 2000
Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech / Hilde Weström Architectural Collection

Ute Weström Architectural Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1996-023
Abstract Ute Weström was born in 1939 in Berlin, Germany, the oldest of four children of architect Hilde Weström. In 1968 she earned an architect's diploma from the Technical University of Berlin. She is a practicing architect in Berlin and an active member of the International Union of Women Architects (UIFA.) Her collection includes information about the restoration of the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin and the Sozialkasse des Berliner Baugewerbes in Berlin, both designed by Weström and her husband...
Dates: 1968 - 1996
Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech / Ute Weström Architectural Papers,

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 / Beverly Willis Architectural Collection

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 / Zelma Wilson Architectural Collection

Women Architects in Austria Exhibit Panels

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-041
Abstract

The Women Architects in Austria Exhibit Panels contains twenty-eight panels from a traveling exhibit sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Institute. The panels show photographs and architectural drawings by Austrian women architects from 1900-1987. Subjects include interior design, urban and landscape planning, apartment buildings, and cultural centers.

Dates: 1988
Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech / Women Architects in Austria Exhibit Panels

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 / Women's Development Corporation Records

Woodcut print [black and white], Melita Rodeck for Friendship House [New York, NY], Ms1992-028

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992-028_MelitaRodeck_B1F4_WoodcutPrint_nd4
Dates: nd
Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech

Woodcut print, Melita Rodeck [Christmas themed], nd (Ms1992-028)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992-028_MelitaRodeck_B1F4_WoodcutPrint_nd3
Dates: 1931 - 2003
Found in: Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech

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