women architects

From folk art to photography, architecture to painting, sculpture to music, female Cuban artists have long gone unnoticed on a global scale. This poetry collection highlights the lives and legacies of eight Cuban women who have redefined art in their communities.

From folk art to photography, architecture to painting, sculpture to music, female Cuban artists have long gone unnoticed on a global scale. This poetry collection highlights the lives and legacies of eight Cuban women who have redefined art in their communities.

Presents a biography of Maya Lin, the creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., shows how she overcame many obstacles to share her creations, which were always connected to surrounding landscapes and nature.

"...examines the history of architecture and the careers of three women who are working as architects today."--Back cover.

Simple text and photographs provide an introduction to Zaha Hadid.

A brief biography of Zaha Hadid, an female architect who challenges people's ideas about what is normal.

Profiles of female builders and designers, focusing on the strengths, passions, and interests each woman had growing up, where those traits took them, and what they achieved.

When the pressure and distractions of life in Seattle--which she hates--overcome her, Bernadette Fox decides she has had enough, and disappears. Her Microsoft-wizard husband, a slough of angry polite mothers, questioning police officers, and her daughter, Bee, are left in her wake to find out where she has gone, and who she really was.

Examines the lives and works of thirty-three contemporary women architects, and includes photographs and illustrations that highlight the diversity of their styles.

Reggie, a successful architect who left her hometown and the horrific memories of a long ago summer behind, gets a call revealing that her mother has been found alive--a call that forces Reggie to confront the ghosts of her past and find the serial killer known as Neptune before he kills again.