The Papers of Susana Torre (1977-1989)
Ms90-016
25 cu. ft.
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Introduction
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 principal 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 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.
Her most notable projects include numerous renovations and remodelings, including the Editor's and Graphic Designer's lounges in the Old Pension Building in Washington, D.C. (1979); the interior of the Consulate for the Ivory Coast in New York City (1980); a master plan for the restoration of Ellis Island in New York Harbor (1981); a turn-of-the-century carriage house in Southhampton, New York, which received a 1982 Award of Excellence of Design from Architectural Record; Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia University (1985); and Fire Station Five of Columbus, Indiana (1987).
In 1977 the Architectural League of New York, through its Archive of Women in Architecture, published Women in American Architecture: a Historic and Contemporary Perspective. Torre edited and wrote the introduction and several segments to this book. She was project director for the exhibit, "Women in Architecture," which opened at the Brooklyn Museum in 1977 and then toured around the United States. She is an honorary member of the Board of Advisors for the International Archive of Women in Architecture, having served on the board from 1985 to 1995.
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