Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy will discuss their new book, Women Architects at Work — a comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American Modernism. The authors will also discuss Smith College's role in educating women in architecture and landscape during the twentieth century.
Mary Anne Hunting, PhD is the author of Edward Durell Stone: Modernisms Populist Architect (W. W. Norton, 2013) and a a co-contributor to The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture (2021), among other projects.
Kevin D. Murphy is Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History of Art at Vanderbilt University. At the University, he is Chair of History of Art and Chair of Classical and Mediterranean Studies. His published works include Memory and Modernity: Viollet-le-Duc at Vézelay (2000), The Cathedral of Notre Dame of Paris: A Quick Immersion (2020), several co-edited volumes, and numerous journal articles.
Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism
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Thank you to the following sponsors for supporting this event:
The University of Massachusetts Amherst | The Department of the History of Art & Architecture | The Department of Architecture | The Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies | UMassBRUT
Smith College | The Department of Art
Western Massachusetts Chapter of the American Institute of Architects | Women in Architecture Committee
To a standing room only audience, Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin Murphy spoke about their important new book Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism (Princeton University Press, 2025) in a public lecture held in South College, UMass Amherst on Oct. 16, 2025. Tim Rohan organized the public lecture and the speakers discussed their research with Professor Meg Vickery's class "Women in Architecture."
Lecture Highlight
