Johanna Hays

Louise Blanchard Bethune

America's First Female Professional Architect

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Produktbeschreibung

Louise Blanchard Bethune, the subject of this biography, was America's first female professional architect. She belonged to the influential group of pioneer architects--Daniel Burnham, John Root and Louis Sullivan--who supported her in becoming a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. In the booming industrial city of Buffalo, she preceded Frank Lloyd Wright and Alfred Kahn in factory design and was the key designer of the modern urban public school building, developing standards still used today. During her career (1881-1905) Bethune was consistently one of the most successful architects practicing in Buffalo and the driving force behind New York State's professional organizations for architects. Beyond setting standards for public schools, she was the go-to architect for factories, warehouses, police stations, a Nikola Tesla power transfer station, and the largest luxury hotel of the early 1900s. Bethune moved from a small town on the Erie Canal--the economic and technological marvel of the antebellum period--to a rapidly industrializing major American city, following the urban migration of many Americans. Unlike many women of her day she seized the promise of the growing nation to pursue life, liberty, and happiness in an occupation of her choice and succeeded.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780786476763
• ISBN-10: 0786476761
• Artikelnr.: 39122787

Autorenporträt

Johanna Hays is an artist and cultural historian of architecture, art, and industrial technology. She divides her time between Arizona and Montana.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface
1 Introduction
9
1.
Beyond Expectations
13
2.
From Idyllic Waterloo to Bustling Buffalo
37
3.
Special Capacities for a Particular Work
53
4.
Rational Foundations-Establishing the Practice
68
5.
The Chicago World's Fair Competition, 1891
97
6.
Building Professionalism
105
7.
Public Buildings for Public Improvement
127
8.
Architecture Determined by Function and Technology
155
9.
Other Applications and Innovations
174 10.
A Life Ful
lled-Ambition Realized
194 Appendix:
Documented Buildings by Year
209 Chapter Notes
213 Bibliography
231 Index
243