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Storming the Old Boys' Citadel : Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America.
This book focuses on the lives and works of two of the very first women of European American ancestry to practice architecture in North America during the 19th century. Mother Joseph du Sacré-Coeur, a Sister of Providence-born Esther Pariseau, in St. Elzéar, Quebec-is credited with works built in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Baraka Books,
2014.
©2014 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; List of Illustrations and Maps; Contents; Foreword; Carla Blank on Louise Bethune and Storming the Old Boys' Citadel; Tania Martin on Mother Josephand Storming the Old Boys' Citadel; Who Deserves to be Called North America's "First" Woman Architect?; Beaux-Arts Rules; What's Inside this Book?; Introduction; The Citadel to be Stormed; An Architect's Training and Education; Women's Battles and Experiences; Alternative Career Choices; PART I; The Sister with a Hammer; An Architect Named Joseph; An "Enterprising Nun"; A Heartful Vocation; Holy Trinity of Settlement.
- Providence FaubourgMove to Higher Ground; Providence House Vancouver; A Brickworks is Born in Vancouver; From House of Providence to Providence Academy; Providence Academy for Sale; Salvation of the Building; Mother Joseph Goes to DC, a Landmark is Designated; Restoration of the Chapel; The Academy for Sale; Mother Joseph's Signature Building; Holy Trinity of Development; A Bridge Across Time, and Interstate 5; PART II; Saving a Grand Old Lady; Jennie Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856
- 1913); The Sources of Buffalo's Heyday; The Making of an Architect; How Buffalo Became an Architectural Museum.
- The Architectural Practice of Louise Blanchard BethunePioneering Feats; Searching Bethune's Buildings; The Business of a Dedicated Professional Woman; Private Life; The Closing Days; Bethune's Signature Legacy: The Lafayette Hotel; The Lafayette's Neighbors; "The Russians want to be French" says Nina L. Khruscheva. So do Americans!; A President is Gunned Down; Construction History: Putting the Pieces Together; The Hotel's Gilded Grand Opening; Doubling the Footprint; Prelude of Changes to Come; The Founding Families; From A Residence of Presidents to a Crack House.
- Rescuing the Fallen Lady and Other Buffalo Architectural GemsThe Nineteenth-Century Luxury Hotelas a Model for Modern Living; The Lafayette Hotel's 43-Million-Dollar Restoration; Creating a Place in the Historical Record; Conclusion; "Storytelling is part of the game." -Tania Martin; "Women architects are not confined to modest projects." -Carla Blank; Investing in making a future for women architects; Bibliograpaphy; Related to Individual Architects; Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart; Books, Monographs, Dissertations; Internet; Newspapers; Louise Blanchard Bethune; Internet Sources.
- NewspapersOther Women Architects; Internet; General References on Architecture, Historic Preservation; Internet; General References on the Gilded Age and Nineteenth to Twenty-First-Century-Related Subjects:; General References on Women's History.