Women Architects in Austria Exhibit Panels
Scope and Content
The collection contains 28 panels (2.5' x 4') with color and black and white photographs of structures and women architects, architectural drawings, and explanatory text in English and German. Also included are 5 packets of catalogs with approximately 50 catalogs per packet.
Subjects featured on the panels include: Interior design; surroundings; houses; apartment buildings; the fifties; urban and landscape planning; cultural centers; and industry and administration.
Women featured in the exhibit include: Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky; Anna Lulja Praun; Hertha Rottleuthner-Frauneder; Helen Koller-Buchwieser; Annemarie Obermann; Elisabeth Senn; Margarethe Heubacher-Sentobe; Renate Achtsnit; Karla Szyszkowitz-Kowalski; Christine Stigler; Eva Mang; Hedi Wachberger; Eva Maria Gruber; Heide Muhlfellner; Erika Lojen; Ilse Vana-Schiffmann; Meina Schellander; Maria Aubock; Franziska Ullmann; Ingrid Mayr; Ingrid Bauer; Anna Popelka; Barbara Aull; Martina Schoberl + Ursula Licka; Dietlind Erschen; Uta Krenn; Gerda Giebelhauser; Angelika Margesin; Elisabeth Schatzer; and Ortrun Lanznel.
Dates
- Creation: 1988 - 1988
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
There are no restrictions.
Historical Information
The "Women Architects in Austria, 1900-1987" exhibit was a traveling exhibit curated in Vienna, Austria and sponsered by the Austrian Cultural Institute.
The exhibit was also a part of "The Invisisible Partner, Third Symposium on Women in Design and Architecture," January 26-February 1, 1988, sponsered by the College of Architecture and Urban studies Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Full Extent
8.8 Cubic Feet (28 panels; approx. 250 catalogs)
Language of Materials
German
Abstract
The collection contains twenty eight panels from a traveling exhibit sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Institute. The panels show photographs and architectural drawings by Austrian women architects from 1900-1987. Subjects include interior design, urban and landscape planning, apartment buildings, and cultural centers.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged chronologically.
Acquisition Information
The Women Architects in Austria Exhibit Panels were donated to Special Collections in 1990.
Separated Material
Book, New housing in Vienna / [written and edited by Dietmar Steiner ; translated by Meredith Schneeweiss], 1988 was placed in the Rare Book collection, NA7345.V6 N48 1988.
General Physical Description note
28 Panels; approx. 250 catalogs, 8.8 cu. ft.
Processing Information
Processed and encoded by Harvey Clark, July 2010.
- Title
- A Guide to the Women Architects in Austria Exhibit Panels, 1988
- Status
- Completed
- Subtitle
- A Collection in Special Collections
- Author
- Harvey Clark
- Date
- © 2010 By Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. All rights reserved.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Description is in English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu