Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism

For the first Modern Conversations presentation of 2025, please join us in welcoming Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy as they discuss their new book Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism, a comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American Modernism. Published by Princeton University Press, the book is being released in the U.S. only two weeks before the talk on February 18th.

In the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily. Women Architects at Work tells the stories of the resilient and resourceful women who surmounted barriers of sexism, racism, and classism to take on crucial roles in the establishment and growth of Modernism across the United States.

Mary Anne Hunting is an architectural historian and the author of Edward Durell Stone: Modernism’s Populist Architect. Kevin D. Murphy is the Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and professor and chair in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Vanderbilt University. His books include Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine: Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier.

Reception to follow. Capacity limited.  Advance Registration Required. Registration closes March 9th.