Louise Blanchard Bethune
Subtitle: America's First Female Professional Architect
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780786476763
Subjects: Architects, biography; Women architects; Women, united states, biography; Architecture, united states
Description: "Louise Blanchard Bethune was the United States' first female professional architect. Bethune belonged to the influential group of pioneer architects. In the booming industrial city of Buffalo, she preceded Frank Lloyd Wright and Alfred Kahn in factory design and she was the key designer of modern urban public school building, developing standards that we still use today"--