IAWA: International Archive of Women in Architecture Records IAWA: International Archive of Women in Architecture Records,
1967-2013 (bulk dates 1985-2008) Ms.1985.021
Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
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Sherrie A. Bowser, Archivist
Repository
Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Identification
Ms.1985.021
Title
IAWA: International Archive of Women in Architecture Records 1967-2013 1985-2008
The records of the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) consist of files created by IAWA founder Milka Bliznakov,
various IAWA officers, and Special Collections archivists. Materials include founding documents, meeting minutes, newsletter
information, correspondence with supporters and donors, and internal correspondence.
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Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal
or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition
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Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder],
International Archive of Women in Architecture Records, 1967-2013 (bulk dates 1985-2008), Ms1985-021, Special Collections
and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
Source of Acquisition
The International Archive of Women in Architecture records were donated to Special Collections in 1998 and 1999 by Dr. Bliznakov.
Other materials have been periodically donated by various IAWA Board Members over the years.
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the International Archive of Women in Architecture was completed in November
2011.
The International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) was established in 1985 as a joint program of the College of Architecture
and Urban Studies and the University Libraries at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). The
purpose of the program is to document the history of women's involvement in architecture by collecting, preserving, storing,
and making available to researchers the professional papers of women architects, landscape architects, designers, architectural
historians and critics, and urban planners, and the records of women architectural organizations, from around the world. The
IAWA collects this information to fill serious gaps in the availability of primary research materials for architectural, women's
history, and social history research.
The International Archive of Women in Architecture records encompass the founding of and day-to-day operations of the organization.
Materials present include administration files (meeting minutes, bylaws, financial information), correspondence (internal
and with potential donors), collection development files (policy developments, solicitation efforts), promotional material
(newsletters, exhibits, conferences, and visiting speakers), and reference files. The collection ranges in date from 1967-2013
(bulk 1985-2008) and is divided into three series: Founder's Files, IAWA Center Files, and Archivist Files.
[10th] Annual Meeting, [the group's numbering system skips here]
22 October 1995
box 1
11th Annual Meeting
10 November 1996
box 1
12th Annual Meeting
6 September 1997
box 1
13th Annual Meeting
27 September 1998
box 2
14th Annual Meeting, [see 15th Annual Meeting for minutes of meeting]
19 September 1999
box 2
15th Annual Meeting
10 September 2000
box 2
16th Annual Meeting, (3 folders)
21 October 2001
box 2
17th Annual Meeting
6 October 2002
box 2
18th Annual Meeting, (2 folders)
14 September 2003
box 2
20th Annual Meeting
30 October 2005
box 2
21st Annual Meeting
15 October 2006
box 2
22nd Annual Meeting
2007
box 2
Executive Committee Minutes (13 folders)
1988-2001
box 2
IAWA Emeritus Advisors and Honorary Status
2000
box 2
IAWA Center
2002-2005
box 2
IAWA Center, Center/University Libraries Partnership
2005
box 2
Nominating Committee (4 folders)
1997-2003
box 3
General Administrative Files (6 folders)
1985-1990; 2000-2004
box 3
IAWA By-laws
1989-2000
box 3
IAWA Letterheads
1989-1990, n.d.
box 3
IAWA Mailing List
1996
box 3
Bliznakov Prize (5 folders)
1999-2003
Correspondence
1989-2004
box 3 1997-2004
box 3
Bliznakov, [to/from]
1989-2002
Collection Development
1985-2001
box 3
Collection development materials
box 3
Collection development policy
1998-2001
box 3
Correspondence with potential donors (2 folders)
1985-1986, 1997
box 3
Mailing, typical letters in english, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish (4 folders)
1985-1986, 1992
box 3
Potential donors
Financial Records
1989-2006
box 3
Financial Records, General (3 folders)
1989, 2001-2006
box 3
Appraisal of IAWA Collection
2000-2001
box 3
Center Annual and Financial Reports
2000-2003
box 3
Fundraising Ideas
2001
box 4 box 3
Individual Donations (2 folders)
1991-1993, 2000-2005
box 4
Milka Bliznakov Endowment
2004
box 4
Sigrid L. Rupp Endowment (2 folders)
1997-2005
Grants
1967-20021988-2000
box 4
Proposal manuals/applications
1967-1978
box 4
Core Research Proposal, [to establish a resource center and organize Friends of the IAWA group]
1988
box 4
Diversity Incentive Grants Committee
2002
box 4
Getty Grant Program
2000
box 4
Graham Foundation for Advance studies in the Fine Arts [for conference "Challenges of the Past and Future: And International
Conference of the Contribution of Women to the Architecture of the 20th century]
1991
box 4
MB Grant [for computerized central information system of works by women architects and landscape architects]
box 4
Newsletters (22 folders)
1989-2010
box 4
Mailing List
box 4
Production of Newsletter
1990
box 4
Production of Newsletter, 10th Anniversary of IAWA
1995
box 4
Production of Newsletter (5 folders)
1998-2001, 2005
box 4 box 5
Responses (8 folders)
1990-1992, 1994-1999
Presentations
1984-2011
box 5
Exhibits -- America tours for "History of Women Architects" German Federal Republic and "Women Architects in Austria, 1900-1987"
Austrian Cultural Institute
1984-1986
Audio Recording: "Women in Design," Cowgill Hall (3 cassettes)
May 1985
box 5
Conference -- The Invisible Partner: 2nd symposium on Women in Design and Architecture
October 28-November 3, 1986
box 5
Conference -- "Challenges of the Past and the Future: An International Conference of the Contribution of women to the Architecture
of the 20th Century"
1991
box 5
Exhibit -- "Contribution of Women architects to the Man-Made Environment," Wallace Hall Gallery, brochures
17 March-4 April 1997
box 5
Exhibit -- IAWA Exhibit Placards
September 1997
box 5
Exhibit -- "Lois Gottlieb: Continuing the Legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright," Wallace Hall Gallery
16 March-3 April 1998
box 5
Visiting Speaker -- Anne Tyng (2 folders)
March 18-22, 1999
box 5
Exhibit -- IAWA Fall Exhibit
1999
box 5
Visiting Speaker -- Brinda Somaya
October 18, 2001
oversize folder: 1 box 5
Visiting Speaker -- Yasmeen Lari
October 5-6, 2002
box 5
Exhibit -- 20th Anniversary Exhibit
2005
box 5
Exhibit -- "Daredemo Photographer, Exhibition Photographs by the Citizens of the Iwaizumi Town, Japan," presented by UIFA
Japan with the IAWA Center
May 11-13, 2013
oversize folder: 1
Symposium -- "Honoring Women in Architecture and the Related Design Fields from last century to 2006"
2006
oversize folder: 1
Visiting Speaker -- Anna Sokolina
October 29, 2007
oversize folder: 1
Exhibit -- "For the Future: The Pioneering Women in Architecture from Japan and Beyond"
2011
box 11
Poster -- Student Research in the IAWA for Modernistic Architecture: Leanings and Gleanings [featuring Maria Rosaria Piomelli
and Maria Auboeck-Karasz]
n.d.
Public Relations
1985-2015
box 5
Clippings, Bliznakov
1985-1986, n.d.
box 5
Clippings, IAWA in publications (4 folders)
1987-1991, 1999-2002, 2007
box 5
IAWA brochure (2 folders)
1991-1993
box 5
IAWA promotional postcards
box 5
Various exhibit catalogs, brochures, handouts, related to the IAWA
Reference Files
1985-2001
box 5
Architecture Cybercore Project, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, CD
Fall 1999
box 5
Compiled address lists, A.I.A., U.I.F.A., and various other organizations (2 folders)
1985-1986, n.d.
box 5
Literature/Resources about women in architecture, Art + Architecture Library, Virginia Tech
2001
box 5
Newsletters from various organizations
1989-1991
box 5
Taliesin Fellowship Directory, Alumni and membership
Books in Special Collection about women in architecture
1992
box 6
Collection inventories
1987, 1990, 1994, and n.d.
box 6
Compiled collection development materials (2 folders)
1974-1990
box 6
Correspondence with potential donors
1988
Donors
box 6
AIA exhibit "That Exceptional One"
box 6
Chadeayne, Olive
1992
box 6
Dows, Wena
1990
box 6
Johnson, Jane C. Hall
1990
box 6
Koller-Buchweiser, Helene
1990
box 6
Leviseur, Elsa
1990-1994
box 6
Pfeiffer, Alberta
1987-1992
box 6
Schroeder, Han
1988-1993
box 7
Torre, Susana
1990
box 7
Torre interview, 3.5" diskette
box 7
Willis, Beverly
1988-1992
box 7
Wilson, Zelma
1990-1991
box 7
Zimbler, Liane
1987-1988
Mailings/Mailing Lists
box 7
Virginia Tech, College of Architecture, Alumnae
1875-1979
box 7
Architecture Schools, directory and responses, [mailings sent to architecture schools throughout the United States requesting
female alumni directories for their architecture schools] (6 folders)
1987
box 8 box 7
State Architectural Registration Boards, directory and responses, [mailings sent to architecture registration boards throughout
the United States requesting the names of female architects registered within the state] (7 folders)
1987
International Architectural Associations, directories and responses, [mailings sent to various international architectural
associations requesting the names of female architects registered with the organization]
1987-1988
box 8
Hermandad Nacional de Prevision Social de Arquitectos Superiores H Lista de Arquitectos de Espana
1985-1986
box 8
History of Women Architects Catalog
1986-1987
box 8
Royal Australian Institute of Architects Membership Directory
1986
box 8
United Architects of the Philippines Directory of General Membership
1986
box 8
The Hong Kong Institute of Architects Register of Membership
1986-1987
box 8
Schweizerischer Ingenieur- und Architekten-Verein Offizielles Mitglieder-Verzeichnis
1986-1987
box 8
Union of Hungarian Architects Membership Directory
1988
box 8
Arquitectas de Puerto Rico, El Caribe y la Florida
1991
box 8
Virginia Tech Faculty Roster, College of Architecture and Urban Studies
1991-1993
box 8
Potential donors listing
1987-1989
box 8
Slides and negatives of materials in the IAWA
Correspondence
1984-1999
box 8
General Correspondence
1985-1988
box 8
IAWA Board members
1988-1991
box 8 box 9
Incoming mail
1984-1999
box 8 box 9
Outgoing mail
1987-1993, 1995-1997
Grants
1988-1990
box 9
American Institute of Architects Foundation Grant and Account
1989-1990
box 9
General grant material
1988-1989
box 9
IAWA Biographical Database (5 folders)
1989, 1994-1996, 2002-2005, 2007
box 9
IAWA Newsletter, production
1989-1992
box 9
IAWA Website
1995
Publications
1991-1992
box 9
Smith, Laura Katz. "The International Archive of Women in Architecture." Feminist Collections, vol. 12, no.4, Summer 1991
March 1991
box 9
Smith, Laura Katz. "The International Archive of Women in Architecture: Preserving the History of the Invisible Partner."
Art Reference Services Quarterly, vol. 1(2) 1993
1991-1992
Reference Files
1979-20071984-2007
box 10
Architecture Libraries, information about their collections
1988-1990
box 10
Archival Collections of and about women architects in depositories in the United States
1989
box 10
Biographical Information, Esther McCoy
1985-1990
box 10
Definitions of Architectural Terms
1984-1989
box 10
Frank Lloyd Wright apprentices
2004, 2007
box 10
Lesbian Herstory Archives
1979-1991
box 10
Literature about women in architecture (6 folders)
1973-1992, 1994-1996, 1998, n.d.
box 10
Research Articles (2 folders)
2002-2005
Related Professional Organizations
1983-2003
box 10
American Institute of Architects (AIA)
1983-1991
box 10
Canadian Centre for Architecture
1999
box 10
International Union of Women Architects (UIFA), Washington, D.C.
1988
box 10
Society of American Archivists, Architectural Records Roundtable, Survey
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