Feb 27, 2026
Today Montecito and Santa Barbara are associated with a number of women identifiable by a single name, from Gwyneth to Oprah to Meghan. But the look of the houses in those oceanfront cities – stucco arches, red tile floors, exposed beams — can be attributed to a woman architect also known by one name, Lutah.
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Aug 22, 2025
Hello, this is New Angle: Voice, the podcast about Pioneering Women in American Architecture brought to you by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. I’m your new host, Alexandra Lange.
Our latest episode describes the creation and experience of the Women’s School of Planning and Architecture, popularly known...
Oct 8, 2024
Welcome to New Angle Voice: I’m your bi-coastal
architect and host, Cynthia Phifer
Kracauer.
Catherine Bauer’s life divided into two names and two geographies: her urban east coast youth, and her Bay Area soft landing. She hobnobbed with the bohemian elite of the interwar years….brilliantly charming the pants...
Jun 27, 2024
We continue our throw-back to the seventies, and take a deeper dive into the many facets of the women’s movement that impacted the practice of architecture.
Pushed to the side and rarely credited for her architectural work at Davis Brody, Phyllis Birkby became a significant figure in extending the lesbian women's...
Apr 9, 2024
That was some party. Even though I didn’t make it to the splashy opening, I did attend the transformational exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, our subject in this episode. A rarely used sculpture gallery was filled with ranks and files of cheap drafting tables, their tops tilted to display what seemed to be pages out...