The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-23

workers; they are doing big things and
they are here to stay. There is a par
OF the community which believes thai
woman's superior moral consciousness
10 likely to make her. other things beins
equal, q pretty safe architect.
'More young women are now employed
In arohitectsT offices than ever before.
are studying architecture"
At the New York School Of Applied
Design it vas learned that whereas
ten or eleven years ago only eight young
women were enrolled for the course in
architecture, eighteen. are now taking
the course. about half OF whom aim o..
being all around architects. The otbae
half are planning to work with archi.
tects In offices where the tendency ia
TO have specialists for different parts Of
the work. For instance, II has been
found. the schools secretary said, that
women excel az colorists. In a certain
office. which now employs some Of tho
schools graduates. n woman is kept
draws principally electric light and gas
fixtures, another draughts certain other
parts OF the building. An understanding
Of architectural principles is required
now by most decorators, for which reason
the study OF architecture Ia more popular
among women than 1t was a few years ago,
and ome are making a better showing
in It,. In solving one Of the problems
submitted by the Beaux Arts Society
to the school last year. o competition
open also to young men students at other
schools, first and second mention we're
given TO two OF the schools students.
although only three women competed
against sixty young men.
The architectural instructor at this
school is also the teacher at Columbia,
where there are so few young women In
the architectural course that Prof. Hamlin
has suggested having these students here
after combine with the architectural
Glasses at the School Of Applied Design.
This will probably be done.
As to the future Of women in archi.
lecture the head OF the school is not Ger
formed a partnership and started to prac-
tise architecture on their wi account
In less than a year both married before
either had a chance to demonstrate any
particular fitness. or lack OF 1t.
Leading architects are often chary,
she finds, about employing women. how
ever gifted. in their offices, for the reason
that just as the women are becoming
valuable to them they marry and leave,
whereas II a man marries he Ia likely TO
work harder than ever.
Men and women are also chary about
lending money to q woman architect
anxious to set up Tor herself, Tor the sane
reason, and as II needs considerable
money to get q good business established
many a young woman decides on the
easier and less hazardous plan OF continu-
ing TO work in an office.
land" concluded the speaker. "after all
there are comparatively few young women
who add to a talent for designing houses
the ability to cope with all the obstacles
in the way Of carrying out these designs.
How many women are there who are It
home on q ladder or have any particular
and mortarP Only a few women can scale
ladders with success, to say nothing Of
overseeing with credit to all concerned
contractors and workmen, for which
reason I imagine it will be ZONE time
before the ranks OF women architects
in business for themselves will be over.
crowded.