International Women's Day Events

In celebration of International Women’s Day, Inge Horton will talk about early women architects who were contemporaries of Julia Morgan. While Julia Morgan is widely known as an eminent woman architect, she was not alone and many other women practiced architecture in the late 19^th and early 20^th century in the San Francisco Bay Area. However, these path-breaking women were mostly unknown until Inge Horton discovered them and recorded their careers and work in her recently published book Early Women Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area – The Lives and work of Fifty Professional, 1890-1951.

In October 2011, Inge S. Horton won the prestigious 2010 Milka Bliznakov Prize of the International Archive of Women in Architecture Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA for her book Early Women Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area - The Lives and Work of Fifty Professionals, 1890-1951. The jury commented This work deserves to be seen as a model for recovering those unknown histories from other places that reveal the contributions of women to the built environment. Overall, the book offers a welcome, continuing challenge to today by illuminating the manner in which women of a previous era located a creative approach to the profession.

Important New Book a Tribute to Women in Architecture and the Legacy of Milka Bliznakov By California NOW Diversity VP, MonaLisa Wallace

It is an honor to have the opportunity to review this important new contribution to herstory: Early Women Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area: The Lives and Work of Fifty Professionals, 1890-1951. Inge Schaefer Horton, a retired city planner from San Francisco, California, has produced a seminal work detailing her substantial research of women architects in the San Francisco Bay Area. This groundbreaking book is of herstorical significance exposing the too often unrecognized legacy of early women architects.