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- Fire in the LibraryBala, Alexander; Dorninger, Christina (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2018-11-30)A conversation with the recipient of the 2018 Milka Bliznakov Research Prize + A Guest Researcher. Alexander Bala – 2018 MBRP recipient in a Fullbright residency in Poland, studying the role of the Polish architect Hanna Adamczewska-Wejchert (1920-1996), as a lead designer of the industrial city of Tychy. Christina Dorninger – From the University of Vienna, researching on Helene Koller-Buchwieser and her residential buildings.
- Fire in the Library: 2016 IAWA Group with Sharóne L.Tomer and Joseph BefordTomer, Sharóne L.; Beford, Joseph (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2017-01-20)Sharóne L. Tomer, Assistant Professor in the College of Architecture + Design, discusses her brief exploration of the IAWA. She is intrigued by what kinds of questions and new knowledge a gendered archive of architecture has the potential to uncover. She will be discussing the material she encountered in the IAWA, and how the material helped her think about the relationship between architecture and gender. Joseph Bedford, Assistant Professor in the College of Architecture + Design, offers observations on the role of gender in the life and work of the California architect Zelma Wilson as seen through oral history records and the early architectural drawings of projects from the 1960s and 1970s held in the International Archive of Women in Architecture.
- Fire in the Library: A Conversation with the 2016 IAWA GroupKavousi, Shabnam; Mego, Steffany; Nautiyal, Divya; Stiles, Clarissa; Stone, Lisette; Veillard, Marilou (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2016-10-21)Launched this Fall, the IAWA Group is a Special Study led by Prof. Paola Zellner with students interested in actively collaborating in the mission and goals of the IAWA. Supporting the research projects of the recipients of the 2016 Milka Bliznakov Research Prize, the IAWA Group will introduce treasures uncovered during this initial stage.