March 2023: Celebrating Women’s History Month
Annual Program | SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group Initiatives
SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (hcommons.org)
1. Celebrating March 8—The International Women’s Day
2. SAH WiA AG Leadership Meeting
3. SAH WiA AG Archive
4. SAH WiA AG Registers Committee
5. SAH WiA AG Legacy Committee
6. SAH WiA AG National Outreach & International Collaboration
7. SAH WiA AG Mentoring Program
8. SAH WiA AG Virtual Programs: New page in SAH Commons
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1. Celebrating March 8—The International Women’s Day
Women Builders and Earthen Architectural Heritage in Africa: Practical Case in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Niger. Director and Script: Amélie Esséssé, architect
SAH WiA AG Special Virtual Event—free and open to the public: 1:00–2:30 PM CST. Program: Documentary film screening and discussion with film director architect Amélie Esséssé
Organized in collaboration with the School for Studies in Art and Culture, Art & Architectural History, Carleton University, Canada. With gratitude for support to Society of Architectural Historians
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Contact: gulkale@cunet.carleton.ca
The architect Amélie Esséssé has more than 20 years of professional experience in the field of management, restoration, conservation, and valorization of African heritage. Passionate about her profession, she creates and supervises projects in sustainable architecture, restoration, conservation, and heritage management. She also does research on ecological materials (earth, bamboo, wood, plants). As an international consultant-expert, among others, with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre—Africa Unit, she accompanies South Saharan African countries in conservation activities related to the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage as well as in capacity building activities to train cultural heritage technicians. Within the framework of the actions of the international NGO ” Bâtir et Développer” it develops workshops for the restoration with local populations and promotion of heritage. She also intervenes in the educational field. She is the author of documentary films, children’s books on African architectural heritage, and participates in various magazines and books. Amélie graduated as an architect from the National School of Architecture of Paris la Villette (1999). She obtained her Diploma in Specialized Studies, a Master’s degree in International Cooperation and Development from the Sorbonne (1999) and trained in Conservation and Management of Earth Architectural Heritage at CRATerre—EAG at the National School of Architecture of Grenoble (2003), as well as trained in Sustainability of Energy Systems, DRE from the Institute for Energy and the Environment (IEPF) and the Centre for Development of Renewable Energies in Marrakech, Morocco (2006).
Moderator
Gül Kale, PhD, Prof., Carleton University, SAH WiA AG Mentoring Program and Special Events
Gül Kale, PhD is a trained architect (ITU) and architectural historian (McGill), Assistant Professor, Carleton University, and member of SAH WiA AG Council. Her research is focused on cross-cultural global histories of material culture and the built environment in the early modern Ottoman empire, wider Mediterranean world and the Middle East. Recipient of a Getty/ACLS postdoctoral fellowship in Art History (2018–19) and SSHRC Insight Development Grant, an AKPIA associate at Harvard University (2019), her scholarship was also supported by postdoctoral fellowships from the University of Bonn’s Annmarie-Schimmel Kolleg and Art Histories Program of the Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin. She conducted research at Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florenz and Technische Universität, Berlin, her articles appeared in journals Muqarnas, JSAH, RES, Architectural Histories and in edited volumes “Living with Nature and Things” and “The Mercantile Effect.”
Panelists
Diane Elliott Gayer, AIA, FWIA, Architect, Prof., SAH WiA AG Legacy Committee
Diane Elliott Gayer, AIA is a licensed architect in the States of Vermont and Colorado, urban and environmental designer, writer, artist, and member of SAH WiA AG Legacy Committee. She is curator and director of the GreenTARA Space Gallery in North Hero, Vermont. Her professional experience as faculty member at University of Vermont and a fellow of the Gund Institute for Economics includes teaching Community Planning and Ecological Design studios and co-directing Graduate Studies Certificate in Ecological Design. She was Director of the Vermont Design Institute for over 20 years. Among her publications are a limited-edition volume Of Earth and Being, published by the Vermont Design Institute (2017), a monograph Groundswell (2003), and a handbook on sustainable design practices and community design charrettes.
Anna Sokolina, PhD, SAH WiA AG Chair
Anna Sokolina, PhD is an architect, historian, and curator, founding chair of SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group, board honorary advisor of International Archive of Women in Architecture, Advisory Board member of The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopaedia of Women in Architecture. Her research is focused on women’s contribution to the integral field of the built environment, on the interdisciplinary inquiry to advocating women’s work across continents, and on holistic genealogies and trajectories of global transitions in architecture. She published over 100 papers, presented and chaired sessions at 84 academic conferences, and received 17 grants and recognitions. Her artwork is housed in 23 public and private collections; among recent publications are The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture (ed, 2021), “Breaking the Silence” (2021), “Biology in Architecture” (2016, 2019), and Architecture and Anthroposophy (ed, 2001, 2010, 2019).
Elisa Dainese, PhD, Prof., Georgia Institute of Technology, SAH Board of Directors, SAH WiA AG Associate Administrator
Elisa Dainese, PhD is a theorist and historian with architectural background. She is Assistant Professor of History and Theory at the Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Architecture. She specializes in African modernism with a focus on knowledge production and the cross-cultural exchange between Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Her research and teaching investigate twentieth and twenty-first century architecture; non-western modernisms and indigenous cultures; postcolonial theories and questions of race, gender, and power in the design disciplines. Published work: The Construction of the Charter of ‘Habitat’: From the Functional City to the African Village (2018), War Diaries: Design after the Destruction of Art and Architecture (co-ed, 2022), “Postwar Connections and Transatlantic Encounters: The Mozambique-Brazil-Portugal Triangle”(2021), and “From the Functional City to the African Village” (2020).
Rebecca Siefert, PhD, Prof., Governor’s State University, SAH WiA AG Executive Administrator
Rebecca Siefert, PhD is Assistant Professor of Art History at Governors State University in University Park, Illinois, and SAH WiA AG Executive Administrator. She received the 2022 Governors State University Excellence Award that recognizes excellence in teaching, research, and creative activity. Rebecca earned her PhD in Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (2018) where she focused on the history of twentieth-century art, architecture, and film. Her primary area of research comprises women in architecture who have been overlooked by mainstream scholarship, especially those involved in the debates surrounding public housing. She has contributed to The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopaedia of Women in Architecture, andher monograph on the contemporary architect and artist Lauretta Vinciarelli, Into the Light: The Art and Architecture of Lauretta Vinciarelli, was published by Lund Humphries in 2020.
2. SAH WiA AG Leadership Meeting
SAH WiA AG 9th Joint Leadership Meeting 02.22.2023
Virtual joint meeting of members of SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group Council, Registers Committee, Legacy Committee, Ex-Officio: SAH Board and Staff members
3. SAH WiA AG Archive
Celebrating SAH WiA AG initial years of groundwork and scholarship: SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group first submission of records to International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA), Virginia Tech University Libraries—project in progress
4. SAH WiA AG Registers Committee
Registers Committee – SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (hcommons.org)
SAH Women in Architecture Bibliography—an ongoing project, NO DEADLINE! First edition HERE. Second edition in progress. Call for submission of new references HERE.
SAH Women in Architecture Interactive Oral Histories—an ongoing project: all initiatives and collaboration welcome!
5. SAH WiA AG Legacy Committee
LEGACY COMMITTEE – SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (hcommons.org)
SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group Proposal to SAH Board to create an Award for Distinction in Scholarship on the History of Women in Architecture—project in progress
Reference site: SAH Women in Architecture AG Proposal to SAH Board 3.24.22 – SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (hcommons.org)
6. SAH WiA AG National Outreach and International Collaboration
The SAH WiA AG collaboration project, organized by Prof. Shelley E. Roff, SAH WiA AG Associate Chair, University of Texas at San Antonio—in progress
7. SAH WiA AG Mentoring Program
Mentoring Program – SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (hcommons.org) Organization, Internship Program—an ongoing project: all initiatives and collaboration welcome!
7. SAH WiA AG Virtual Programs: New Page in SAH Commons
Collection of SAH WiA AG recorded virtual programs. Supported by SAH CONNECTS Program and programs organized by SAH WiA AG members. Design as part of SAH WiA AG website—in progress
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