Chloethiel Woodard Smith

Kathleen James-Chakraborty: Zoom lecture for the ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

Delivered to a class at the ETH in Zürich, this talk introduced students to the career of the architect who for twenty years ran the largest and most acclaimed practice of any woman in the United States at the time.  It focused on how she had been able to accomplish this, on her controversial contributions to the redevelopment of Washington’s Southwest neighborhood, and on her engagement with public planning bodies in the city.

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