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Biriukova, Alexandra, biographical material, 0.1 Cubic Feet Box 1

1895-1967. Russian architect in Canada. Received architecture degree in 1914 from the School of Architecture in Petrograd, Russia. Exiled in 1917; moved to Italy where she received a degree in 1925 from the Royal Superior School of Architecture in Rome. Emigrated to Toronto, Canada, in 1929. Designed a residence for artist Lawren Harris in Toronto and was elected the first woman member of the Ontario Association of Architects in 1931, yet entered nursing school that same year and spent the rest of her career as a nurse. Materials consist of research notes, correspondence, published biographical sources, and card files compiled by Barbara Sankey of Toronto, who researched Biriukova's career.

  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  2. IAWA Small Collections,
  3. Persons and Associations

Brians, Audrey, papers, 0.1 Cubic Feet Box 2

Principal and President of Brians and Associates/Architects, Inc., of Panama City, Florida. Materials include four brochures - one describes her firm and includes a curriculum vitae, and three detail her designs. Also includes a 12-page memoir, ""Confessions of an Irreverent Iconoclast"" written in 2002. Also has materials on VT ImageBase

  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  2. IAWA Small Collections,
  3. Persons and Associations

Budevska-Salcheva, Nadezhda, papers, 2 Cubic Feet Box 2, Box 17

Nadezhda Budevaska-Salcheva graduated from Sofia Polytechnic in 1949, and thereafter pursued a career as a champion tennis player. In 1967, she joined the Sofia Design Organization, where she designed many large buildings such as hospitals and research institutes. In 1980 she established a private office, focusing mainly on private residences. The papers include drawings and photos of projects for residential projects in/near Sofia, Bulgaria, 1965-1988, a photo of a drawing of research laboratories, newspaper clippings, and a two-page c.v. in English with image of Budevska.

  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  2. IAWA Small Collections,
  3. Persons and Associations

Driskel, Jean Roth papers, 0.1 Cubic Feet Box 2

1915-1971. Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, member of the Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes, and national president (1954-1956) of the Association of Women in Architecture. Designer of residential, commercial, and industrial buildings in Pasadena, California. Collection includes notebook of material relating to Driskel and her career, including a photograph, correspondence regarding her membership in the American Institute of Architects (1949-1958), news clippings (1968-1971), and obituaries, donated by the Association for Women in Architecture. Also has materials on VT Imagebase.

  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  2. IAWA Small Collections,
  3. Persons and Associations

Galster, Gertrud, publications, 0.5 Cubic Feet Box 13

Architect of Denmark and member of the Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes (UIFA). Collection consists of books about women architects and reports and other literature from the meetings of the UIFA. Inventory of publications located in box. The following books were cataloged separately in the Addison library catalog, and are available through the Special Collections Reading Room: "That Exceptional One": Women in American Architecture, 1888-1988; Ziviltechnikerinnen [Civilian technicians]; Women in Danish Architecture; and Profiles: Pioneering Women Architects from Finland. Galster also has materials available on VT Imagebase. Material is in French, English, German, and Persian [?].

  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  2. IAWA Small Collections,
  3. Persons and Associations

Hooker, Marjorie Mead (Peggy), biographical information, 0.1 Cubic Feet Box 4

1925-2006, Architect of New Mexico. Received Bachelor of Architecture degree from University of Texas (1947) where she was the only woman in her graduating class. After graduating Hooker worked in various offices in Texas and California until she settled in New Mexico where she was an Associate with McHugh and Hooker, Bradley P. Kidder and Associates (1955-1965). She opened her own practice briefly from 1966-1967, until she joined Flatow, Moore, Bryan and Fairburn (1968-1988) to work with Max Flatow on the Albuquerque Urban Renewal Project. She had many firsts attached to her name: first woman to become a corporate member of the Albuquerque Chapter, AIA; she was also the first woman elected president of that chapter (1984); first woman to serve on the New Mexico Board of Examiners for Architects. Collection includes clippings, memorial service material, New Mexico Women's Hall of Fame Nomination form, and photocopies of various awards received by Hooker.

  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  2. IAWA Small Collections,
  3. Persons and Associations

Hook, Mary Rockwell, papers, 0.1 Cubic Feet Box 4

1877-1978. Residential Architect in Kansas City, Missouri, and architect of the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Harlan County, Kentucky. Collection includes photocopies of her autobiography, This and That, articles about her life and work, and obituaries. Also includes audio cassettes of an interview of Mary Rogers of Pine Mountain by Louise Chawla about Hook's life and career. The Kentucky Oral History Society retains copyright and literary rights to the interview.

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  2. IAWA Small Collections,
  3. Persons and Associations

IAWA Small Collections, 32 Cubic Feet 22 boxes; 40 oversize folders

Treant-Mathe, Juliette
The IAWA Small Collections was compiled from a variety of sources by Special Collections staff for use in reference and research. The collection consists primarily of biographical materials for women architects, architectural historians, and designers including curriculum vitas, firm brochures, exhibit notices, photographs, and publications. Drawings, sketches, course notes, correspondence, and other materials pertaining to architectural collections are also present.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Jirmunsky, Galina, papers, 0.1 Cubic Feet Box 18

1926-2010. Russian modernist architect. Collection contains 36 original photographs of designs/drawings/built structures by Jirmunsky; a portrait; and a biographical file written by her husband Feliks Aronovich Novikov, Ph.D. (also an architect who designed/built the Palace of Pioneers on Lenin's Hills (now Sparrow Hills) in Moscow) with commentary on each of the numbered photographs.

  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  2. IAWA Small Collections,
  3. Persons and Associations

Koci, Ilse, papers, 0.1 Cubic Feet Box 5, Box 14

Born 1919. Architect of Vienna, Austria, and designer of many structures in that city. Collection includes a curriculum vitae; eleven photographs (1962-76) of buildings she has designed; an elevation (1969) of Unido Wettbewerb; and a copy of notes of "Research upon the Possibility of a Pedestrian Zone" with preliminary sketches, plans, elevations, and perspectives.

  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  2. IAWA Small Collections,
  3. Persons and Associations

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