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 Susana Torre was born in 1944 in Puan, Argentina, and has lived in the United States since 1968. She received her architectural diploma from the University of Buenos Aires, and studied urban planning there and at Columbia University in New York. She was prinicipal of The Architectural Studio of New York from 1978 to 1984, a partner at Wank Adams Slavin Associates and then Torre Beeler Associates from 1985 to 1989, and a principal of Susana Torre and Associates of New York from 1989 to 1994. Torre was director of the Barnard College Architecture Program and an associate professor of architecture (1981-89) at Columbia University, and formerly director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Torre's other contributions include:

Women in American Architecture: a Historic and Contemporary Perspective (Editor/Writer, 1977)
"Women in Architecture" touring exhibit beginning at the Brooklyn Museum (Project Director, 1977)
IAWA (Board of Advisors, 1985-95; Hon. Member, 1995-present)

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