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This special conversation will celebrate architect Eleanor Raymond, FAIA, an important member of the American architectural canon. As a woman practicing architecture for more than 50 years beginning in 1919, she was unique in establishing a private practice in the male-dominated field of the early twentieth century. She was an early adopter of modern architectural principles in New England, building the first documented modern movement home in Massachusetts in 1931 and several more thereafter. Working in fruitful partnerships with other women, she built a roster of unique and experimental structures, includings the first house to be heated entirely by solar energy in 1948. Join architect Doris Cole, FAIA, Raymond's biographer and friend, and historian Justin Kedl for a discussion of Raymond's groundbreaking life and career.
Justin Kedl is an artist and art historian born in Minnesota and raised in Colorado. He holds a BA in sculpture and graphic design from Gordon College and an MA in modern and contemporary art history, theory, and criticism from Azusa Pacific University. His interest in twentieth century modern art and architecture informs both his scholarship and the creation of his own artwork. He has exhibited his ceramics and multi-media, installation-based artwork nationally and internationally. He has published a handful of articles and one book on the art and architecture of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. He now works as the Project Manager for Collections and Exhibitions at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Doris Cole, FAIA, is an architect, artist, and author. She was a founding principal of Cole and Goyette, Architects and Planners Inc.in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Harold Goyette, AIA, AICP from 1981 to 2012. The firm specialized in residential, educational, and commercial buildings for private and public clients. Her numerous design awards include the Boston Society of Architecture Women in Design Award of Excellence and the AS&U Bronze Citation Award. Her design competitions include the Atlantic City Holocaust Memorial, Dubai Tall Emblem Structure, and others. She founded Doris Cole, FAIA, Architecture/Planning in 2012. Her Commentary Posters were exhibited at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Frances Loeb Library Special Collections in 2017.
In addition to From Tipi to Skyscraper, she has written several books on architecture including Eleanor Raymond, Architect (New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1981), Candid Reflections: Letters from Women in Architecture 1979 & 2004 (New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 2007), numerous essays and articles. She has lectured at the University of Virginia, Boston Society of Architecture, Chicago Women in Architecture, and elsewhere.
Cole was born in Chicago, Illinois and graduated from East Grand Rapids High School in Michigan. She received her AB cum laude from Radcliffe College and her Masters of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her professional and personal papers are at Harvard University Graduate School of Design Frances Loeb Library Special Collections.
