Course Description: Women architects own or are partners in a significant number of architectural firms. They produce many fine well-designed buildings and receive many design awards, including the Pritzker Prize. This lecture series examines the careers of many internationally prominent women architects from Minerva Nichols, the first woman architect in the United States, Julia Morgan the first registered woman architect in California, to Zaha Hadid, one of the most important architects of the 21st century, and many others.
Location: Pavilion
Dates/Times: Mondays, 11:00am to 12:15pm
Instructor: Robert Cassway
Robert Cassway is an award-winning architect who has taught at the University of Michigan and Temple University, in Philadelphia. He was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. Cassway has won over two dozen, local, state, and national design awards for projects designed throughout the United States, Bahamas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Great Britain. His work has been published in national and international architectural publications.
