Kathleen James-Chakraborty – in-person lecture at University of Toronto, Canada.

To understand the agency that women have had in shaping the built environment demands looking beyond a handful of celebrated architects, their patrons, and the critics who supported them.  The role of journalists, especially those who wrote for the shelter press, of those who ran design businesses and sponsored real estate development, and of those who were active as institution builders merits consideration, as does that of women who designed buildings while working outside of the channels that deliver conventional fame.  Charting the impact that  Ethel Madison Bailey Furman and Chloethiel Woodard Smith had upon Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. demonstrates yet more ways to read the built environment as the product of motives that stretch far beyond stylistic innovation.

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