Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/Women in Architecture

Women in Architecture
Wikipedia Edit-a-thons
	Signe Hornborg: Signelinna (1892) in Pori, Finland, possibly the first building designed by a credentialed female architect.
Date	Thursday, October 15, 2015
Time	5.30pm-9pm; (drop-in any time!)
Address	Philadelphia Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street
City, State	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
	Part of a global edit-a-thon campaign to counter the gender gap and improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in architecture.

Join us for the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon at the AIA Philadelphia Center for Architecture on Thursday, October 15, 2015!!

Participate in the Philadelphia edition of our global Women in Architecture campaign to improve Wikipedia's content about underrepresented history in this field. As always, beginners welcome! We'll provide training for new editors at 5:30pm, following by editing until 9.00.

What: Women in Architecture @ AIA Philadelphia Center for Architecture

When: Thursday, October 15, 2015 from 5.30 pm - 9.00 pm.

Where: AIA Philadelphia Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Suggested Focus: Women in architecture - people, their works, architectural and design movements, and use of materials

What to bring: Your laptop, power adapter, and any reference materials you'd like to work from or share. If you have some ideas to work on, bring them along! If not, we'll provide some resources.

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Background

The Getty Research Institute and AIA Philadelphia Center for Architecture are joining the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Women in Design, Wikiproject Women Wikipedia Design and WikiProject Women in Red, in sponsoring the #Guggathon Women in Architecture Wikipedia edit-a-thon global campaign of editing events for improving and increasing the presence of cultural, historic, and artistic information on Wikipedia pertaining to the lives and works of women in architecture.

With keystone concurrent events scheduled for Thursday October 15 in Philadelphia, New York City, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, the campaign aims to further the goals of Ada Lovelace Day for STEM, and Art+Feminism for art, in a field that by its nature combines both.

RSVP

Please RSVP here by adding four tildes to automatically list your Wikipedia user name, or send an email with your RSVP to email_TBD

-Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 19:14, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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To-Do

Here are a some possible articles with particular relevance to Philadelphia, that you could create or improve during this edit-a-thon. You can help us by adding to this list!

Denise Scott Brown
Melissa Minnich Coleman
Kimberlee Douglas, Director, Landscape Architecture Program, Philadelphia University
Elizabeth Hirsh Fleisher, designed The Parkway House, the first major Philadelphia building to be designed, in part, by a woman
Barbara Klinkhammer, Dean, College of Architecture and the Built Environment, Philadelphia University (2012)
Elizabeth Leighton Lee, first female landscape architect in Philadelphia, established program as Director of the Pennsylvania School
Minerva Parker Nichols, designer of the New Century Club (Philadelphia)
Claudia Goetz Phillips, Director of the MS in GeoDesign Program, Philadelphia University
Betty Ray Rotenberg, first woman to earn a degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania
Anne Griswold Tyng
Georgina Pope Yeatman, first woman to practice architecture in Philadelphia
Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women
The Women’s Pavilion at the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876 in Philadephia, organized by Elizabeth Duane Gillespie (1821- 1901), chair of the Women’s Centennial Committee
Women in landscape architecture (See Mozingo, Louise A.; Jewell, Linda L. (2012). Women in Landscape Architecture: Essays on History and Practice. McFarland. ISBN 9780786461646.)

In addition, the following crowdsourced list contains a broad range of topics of interest to Women in Architecture. You are welcome to work on anything you like.

Superseded by Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Red/Women in architecture

Recent changes to target articles