"Feminism and Architecture" was a two-part conference series held in 2014 and 2015 at The New School in New York City. The series was initiated and organized by architect and educator Brian McGrath, dean of the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons School of Design. In the first year, McGrath partnered with the Architectural League of New York on the conference, "Feminism + Architecture: Intergenerational Conversations," where the keynote address was delivered by Susana Torre, who in the 1990s had led the establishment of the master’s degree program in architecture at Parsons. Peggy Deamer from Yale University worked with McGrath to organize the 2015 conference, "Women, Architecture, and Academia."

References

Feminism and Architecture conference series files, PC.02.19.01, 2014-2015, New School Archives and Special Collections, The New School, New York, New York.

Brian McGrath was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, into an Irish-American family. He did his undergraduate degrees in architecture and liberal arts at Syracuse University, graduating in 1979. He completed his Master’s of Architecture at Princeton University in 1981. McGrath’s professional career has been a mix of architectural practice and teaching. McGrath’s association with Parsons School of Design began in 1991. At Parsons, Brian has held several positions. He served as research chair in Urban Design between 2010 and 2013; between 2013 and 2016, he held the post of professor of Urban Design. In 2016, McGrath completed a three-year term as dean of the School of Constructed Environments. He is also an author and editor of several publications, including Urban Design Ecologies Reader (2013), Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design: Linking Theory and Practice for Sustainable Cities (2013) (with S.T.A. Pickett and Mary Cadenasso), and Cinemetrics: Architectural Drawing Today (2007) (with Jean Gardner).

References

Audio interview with Brian McGrath, July 7, 2016, Parsons School of Design oral history program, PC.07.01.02, New School Archives and Special Collections, The New School, New York, New York. https://findingaids.archives.newschool.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/25012.