Forgotten Architect News Today

IN A STRIKING BREAK from its typical Manhattan-centric provincialism (even more pronounced, in those days, than it is now), the New York Times gave over an entire two-and-a-half columns in the Style section of the March 10, 1977, edition to some very local news out of Philadelphia. Written, of all people, by Anna Quindlen—still twenty-five years before her Pulitzer—the story details the presumed final luncheon of the New Century Club, once a fixture of high society in the City of Brotherly L...

Penn exhibition surfaces the story of Minerva Parker Nichols, the first American woman to have an independent architecture practice

ICYMI, for the latest entry in the Deans List series Katherine Guimapang interviewed Cal Poly Pomonas new dean of the College of Environmental Design, Mary Anne Alabanza Akers. News The International Code Council is revising their code development process with changes starting in 2024. Both...

AN has compiled a non-exhaustive roundup of spring 2023 lectures presented by architecture schools across the United States.

An exhibition at University of Pennsylvania will look back on the projects of Minerva Parker Nichols, the first woman architect in U.S. to practice solo.

Gregory J. Scott, the architect who writes the monthly column “Design Intervention” for LNP | LancasterOnline, will present a talk on “Lancaster’s Forgotten Architect: James Warner” next week. The talk, part of LancasterHistory’s spring lecture series, can be viewed via Zoom at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 11. Lancaster is filled with examples of the work of the London-born Warner, who lived from 1865 to 1913. Warner came to the United States at age 19, first settling in Ha...

LancasterHistory and James Buchanan’s Wheatland may remain closed to visitors because of the pandemic. But the local history organization still has a full schedule of events to offer the public between now and May. Presentations about Thaddeus Stevens, controversial monuments and Lancaster architecture, along with a Valentine’s Day fundraising gala and a special Presidents Day tour of Wheatland, are among the history organization’s upcoming virtual offerings. Tour of Wheatland On...

LancasterHistory and James Buchanan’s Wheatland may remain closed to visitors because of the pandemic. But the local history organization still has a full schedule of events to offer the public between now and May. Presentations about Thaddeus Stevens, controversial monuments and Lancaster architecture, along with a Valentine’s Day fundraising gala and a special Presidents Day tour of Wheatland, are among the history organization’s upcoming virtual offerings. Tour of Wheatland On...