Archival Adventures - Episode 41: Pioneering Women Architects
Channel: VTLibraries
Date: 2021-11-23

In this episode, we return to the International Archive of Women in Architecture to check out materials from some pioneering women architects. There were some technical difficulties at the start of the stream. You can skip past them using the timestamps in the description.

00:00:00 Introduction and Technical Difficulties
00:23:00 Kimiko Suzuki
01:10:08 Florence Kenyon Hayden
01:56:33 Liane Zimbler

Kimiko Suzuki (1929-1992) attended Japan Women’s University and was their first graduate in the housing studies program.

Florence Kenyon Hayden was an architecture instructor at Ohio State University in 1905 and was the first registered woman architect in Ohio. The Florence Kenyon Hayden papers are part of the International Archive of Women in Architecture Small Collections (Ms2009-054).

Liane Zimbler was born in Czechoslovakia in 1892. She studied Art and Architecture at the State Art School in Austria, became the first women in Europe to be awarded an architect's license, and opened offices in Vienna and Prague.