The Women Who Changed Architecture: Panel Discussion & Book Event

Lori Brown FAIA has developed a creative research practice focusing on the relationships between architecture and social justice issues with particular emphasis on gender and its impact upon spatial relationships in hopes to broaden the discourse and involvement of architecture in our world. She is the co-founder and leads ArchiteXX, a gender equity in architecture organization in New York City ArchiteXX’s current curatorial project is the travelling exhibition Now What?! Advocacy, Activism & Alliances in American Architecture since 1968 and has been supported by the Graham Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, and the National Endowments for the Arts. Her two books include Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture, an edited collection of a group of international women designers and architects employing feminist methodologies in their creative practices (2011) that began as a traveling exhibition and Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and Hospitals exploring highly securitized spaces and the impact of legislation and the First Amendment’s affect upon such places (2013). She is working with two abortion clinics on design interventions for their public interface. Currently her two book projects include Birthing, Borders and Bodies and co-editing The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2015 (2023) with Dr. Karen Burns. She is a 2021 Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices recipient and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She is a Professor at the School of Architecture Syracuse University and a registered architect in New York state.

Since joining Leers Weinzapfel Associates, Juliet Chun AIA has had an integral role on a variety of projects such as the UMass John W. Olver Design Building, recipient of the 2022 AIA Education Design Award and the 2020 AIA COTE Award, and the Ohio State East Regional Chilled Water Plant, an “out of the box” campus infrastructure building that received the 2015 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award. In 2017, she co-founded the project, “Girl Uninterrupted” aimed at researching and promoting equity in design. Through her research, she has presented nationally at conferences and locally at offices and schools to create an open dialogue, promote transparency, and support positive change in the profession. In 2020, Juliet received the AIA Young Architects Award for her leadership and advocacy in the field and the Beverly Willis Tribune Award in 2019 for her work in improving gender equities in the building industry. She has taught at the Boston Architectural College as a studio instructor and thesis advisor and has been a guest critic for various institutions including Mass Art College of Art and Design, Northeastern University, Pratt University, and Wentworth Institute of Technology.

Doris Cole FAIA is an architect and author. She was a founding principal of Cole and Goyette, Architects and Planners Inc.in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Harold Goyette, AIA, AICP from 1981 to 2012. The firm specialized in residential, educational, and commercial buildings for private and public clients. Her numerous design awards include the BSA Women in Design Award of Excellence. Her design competitions include the Atlantic City Holocaust Memorial, Dubai Tall Emblem Structure, and others. She founded Doris Cole, FAIA, Architecture/Planning in 2012. Her Commentary Posters were exhibited at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Frances Loeb Library Special Collections in 2017.

Doris Cole wrote the first book on women in architecture in the United States, From Tipi to Skyscraper: A History of Women in Architecture (Boston: i press, 1973, distributed by MIT Press). She has written five books including Eleanor Raymond, Architect (New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1981), numerous essays, and articles. She has lectured at the University of Virginia, the BSA, and elsewhere.

Cole was born in Chicago, Illinois and graduated from East Grand Rapids High School in Michigan. She received her AB cum laude from Radcliffe College and her Masters of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her professional and personal papers are at Harvard University Graduate School of Design Frances Loeb Library Special Collections.

J. Yolande Daniels is an Associate Professor in Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture and a fellow of the Independent Study Program of the Whitney American Museum of Art in studio practice and cultural studies. She received a B.S.Arch from City College of New York and M.Arch from Columbia University.

Daniels co-founded the architecture and design practice studioSUMO, with Sunil Bald, in 1995. studioSUMO’s approach has developed in response to cultural, formal and spatial contexts through research and design projects in New York, Brazil and Japan lending a geographic diversity that has foregrounded an approach to architecture as a device for engaging and understanding the richness and complexities of the built environment. The work of the practice has been characterized by projects that range in scale and type, from speculative installations to client-driven exhibition design, residential projects, and institutional buildings.

Both the practice and individual projects have been recognized for design excellence by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Japan National Design Council, German National Design Council, Chicago Athenaeum, AIA New York City Chapter, AIA New York State, the NY Architectural League Emerging Voices and League Prize, the Architectural Record Design Vanguard and the 12th, 14, and 16th Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibitions.