March 2024: Celebrating Women’s History Month
Annual Program | SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group Initiatives
SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (hcommons.org)
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Thank you for your support and engagement beyond all borders!
The 2024 Theme celebrates Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
1. SAH WiA AG Leadership Meeting
2. Celebrating March 8—The International Women’s Day
3. SAH WiA AG at Annual SAH Conference
4. SAH WiA AG International Collaboration
5. SAH WiA AG Legacy and Registers Committees
6. Collaboration with SAH Board and collectives
7. SAH WiA AG Mentoring Program
8. SAH WiA AG Archive
1. SAH WiA AG Leadership Meeting in Celebration of Women’s History Month
Objectives: To commence the Annual Program in celebration of Women’s History Month, recognize accomplishments, honor frontrunners, and discuss plans and projects.
Date: March 1. 2024, 10:00–11:00am CST
2. Celebrating March 8—The International Women’s Day
SAH CONNECTS Roundtable, Indigenous Women in Architecture in the U.S. and Canada
Date: March 8, 2024, 10:00–11:30am CST
Registration link: Indigenous Women in Architecture in the US and Canada (sah.org)
This roundtable pioneers first collaboration of SAH affiliate groups—Women in Architecture and Indigenous Architecture, in celebration of the International Women’s Day.
Speakers will address their own paths and practices in architecture, barriers they face or have faced, and their efforts to mentor Indigenous architects. They will present their positions regarding Indigenous design, their values, relationship to place, sustainability, and resistance to colonialism.
We express our gratitude for support to SAH CONNECTS Programming and Advisory Committee.
MODERATOR
Lynn Paxson, PhD.; Emeritus University Professor and Professor of Architecture in the Department of Architecture in the College of Design at Iowa State University, AICAE, AISE, edra. Dr. Paxson, recognized for her work diversifying the architecture curriculum through the incorporation of Indigenous cultures and issues is now working with colleagues on an exhibition of Contemporary Pueblo Architecture, and a co-edited book on Indigenous Architecture
SPEAKERS
Geraldene Blackgoat, (Diné) CEO and Designer of Blackgoat Design Co., and adjunct lecturer at University of New Mexico School of Architecture & Planning. Mrs. Blackgoat’s research and professional experience focuses on elevating culturally responsive and community-based design in the built environment through community engagement and architectural design.
Cynthia Figueroa-McInteer, (Laguna Pueblo) First registered Indigenous Woman Architect in New Mexico, Retired Architect, NM President of AIA NM (2020), AICAE. Figueroa-McInteer holds an MArch from UNM, is Owner/operator Figueroa-McInteer Architecture and managed the Facilities Strategic Planning Department at Sandia National Laboratories until she retired.
Michael Fredericks, (Alaska Native of Yup’ik descent), Principal + Strategic Engagement, SALT, AK. Michael was born and raised in Anchorage, she has leveraged her architectural training (MArch) into a specialization in complex stakeholder, strategic engagement and leadership development.
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Anne Lawrason Marshall, RA, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Architecture and American Indian Studies at University of Idaho. Dr. Marshall is Founder and Co-Chair of the SAH Indigenous Architecture Affiliate Group. Her research focuses on tribal museums and cultural centers.
Eladia Smoke, KaaSheGaaBaaWeak, (Anishinaabekwe from Obishikokaang, Lac Seul, First Nation), Third Indigenous woman licensed in Canada and the first Anishinabekwe, Principal Architect, Smoke Architecture Inc., OAA, OAQ, MAA, FRAIC, LEED®AP. KaaSheGaaBaaWeak, Eladia Smoke founded Smoke Architecture and taught at Laurentian’s McEwen School of Architecture. A founding member of RAIC’s Indigenous Task Force, Eladia represented Canada at the 2018 Venice Biennale Unceded exhibition.
Anna Sokolina, PhD is an architect, curator, Routledge featured author, Founding Chair of SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group, IAWA Honorary advisor, H-SHERA Advisory Board member, recent books: The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture (2021, 2024), Architecture and Anthroposophy (2001, 2010, 2019).
Jason Tippeconnic Fox (Comanche/Cherokee), Architectural Historian, Idaho State Historic Preservation Office. Dr. Tippeconnic Fox is Founding Co-Chair of the SAH Indigenous Architecture Affiliate Group. His research centers on educational architecture built by and for Native Americans.
3. SAH WiA AG at 77 Annual International Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Apr 17–21, 2024
SAH Reception for Affiliate Groups sponsored by Lynne Horiuchi, PhD, SAH Secretary, 4.17.24.
SAH WiA AG contribution in solidarity, to Architectural Studies Affiliate Group lunchtime panel 4.18.24, in partnership with invited affiliate groups: Asian American and Diasporic, Indigenous Architecture, Minority Scholars, and Race and Architectural History. Prof. Rebecca Siefert serves as panelist in this conversation.
4. SAH WiA AG International Collaboration
WoArch | Women as Builders, Designers, and Critics of the Built Environment Before 1800. Conference series, Women in Architecture. Rome, Italy, Jan 25–27, 2024.
Convenors: Shelley E. Roff, Consuelo Lollobrigida, Francesca Riccardo. SAH WiA AG invited contribution: Collegial support, promotional efforts.
The inaugural WoArch symposium, first in the planned biennial conference series, is organized by the University of Arkansas Rome Center in collaboration with the School of Architecture + Planning at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Hosted in person at the Rome Center in Palazzo Taverna, Rome. Live stream on the Rome Center YouTube channels.
ICAG: VI International Conference on Architecture and Gender. Universitat Politècnica de València, School of Architecture, Valencia, Spain, Oct 3–6, 2023.
Organizers: Eva M. Alvarez, Carlos J. Gomez. SAH WiA AG invited contribution: Sponsor, collegial support, promotional efforts; Scientific Committee, scholarship, keynote lecture and other contribution by Anna Sokolina, session chair, exhibition participation, special events. Complex contribution by remarkable SAH WiA AG members.
ICAG 2023 | VI International Conference on Architecture and Gender speakers & chairs | program | committees | call for papers | registrations | instagram CUG | sponsors
Promotional support of events organized by women in architecture centers and programs worldwide.
Contribution by SAH WiA AG Communications/Media Team
5. SAH WiA AG Legacy and Registers Committees
Legacy Committee LEGACY COMMITTEE – SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (hcommons.org)
Virtual events and enduring initiatives.
Registers Committee Registers Committee – SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (hcommons.org)
SAH Women in Architecture Bibliography—an ongoing project spearheaded and authored by Barbara Ann Opar, with contribution by Committee and group members. First edition HERE. Second edition in progress, in collaborations with Prof. Laura Sánchez Carrasco. Call for new references HERE. NO DEADLINE.
SAH Women in Architecture Oral Histories—an ongoing project led by Rebecca Siefert, with contribution by Barbara Ann Opar and group interns. Conversations to feature noted SAH members, all ideas welcome!
6. Collaboration with SAH Board and collectives
Contribution to the Journal of Society of Architectural Historians: “Tribute to Pauline Saliga by the SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2023) 82 (4): 489–490. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.4.489.
Participation in Member Meetups organized by SAH Board and Staff, contribution to SAH CONNECTS Program.
7. SAH WiA AG Mentoring Program
Mentoring Program – SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (hcommons.org)
Panels, Workshops, Internship Program—an ongoing project, all ideas welcome!
8. SAH WiA AG Archive
SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group Archive
Celebrating SAH WiA AG Groundwork Years and Scholarship: SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group first submission of records to International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA), Special Collections, Virginia Tech University Libraries: Submitted 20 general folders containing professional documentation, 12.12.2019 to 05.31.2023. Accessioning in progress.
OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM
Council: Anna Sokolina, Wanda A. Bubriski, Rebecca Siefert, Ola Uduku, Barbara Ann Opar, Maristella Casciato, Priya Jain, Yan Wencheng, Sarah Bonnemaison, Elisa Dainese, Anat Geva, Avni Gor, Bailey Morgan Brown Mitchel, Marianna Charitonidou, Stavroula Michael, Ex Officio: SAH Board Officers and Staff
Registers Committee: Barbara Ann Opar, Anna Sokolina, Rebecca Siefert, Alicia Imperiale, Gillian Mahoney, Laura Sánchez Carrasco, Nina Stritzler-Levine, Shelley E. Roff, Margaret B. Vickery
Legacy Committee: Anna Sokolina, Rebecca Siefert, Esra Akcan, Jelena Bogdanovic, Sigal Davidi, Catherine Boland Erkkila, Mary Anne Hunting, Kiwa Matsushita, Mari Nakahara, Katherine Kaford Papineau, Atsuko Tanaka, Julie Willis, Eva Alvarez, Carlos J. Gomez, Carmen Espegel, Diane Elliott Gayer, Thaisa Way
SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group expresses our gratitude for support to SAH Board Officers and Staff: Patricia A. Morton, SAH President, Mohammad Gharipour, First Vice President, Lynne Horiuchi, Secretary, Gail Dubrow, Treasurer, Ben Thomas, Executive Director, Anne Hill Bird, Director of Membership, Helena Dean, Director of Communications, Catherine Boland Erkkila, SAH Archipedia/BUS Managing Editor, Christopher Kirbabas, Director of Programs, Beth Eifrig, Comptroller.
OUR PLATFROMS
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