Dolores Hayden
{{short description|American historian, architect, and poet}}
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Dolores Hayden is an American professor emerita of architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale University. She is an urban historian, architect, author, and poet. Hayden has made innovative contributions to the understanding of the social importance of urban space and to the history of the built environment in the United States.{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the City|last=Caves|first=R. W.|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|pages=335}}
Background
Hayden received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1966.{{Cite web |last=Till |first=Katherine |date=2022-09-07 |title=NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM ANNOUNCES DOLORES HAYDEN AS 2022 VINCENT SCULLY PRIZE RECIPIENT {{!}} National Building Museum |url=https://nbm.org/national-building-museum-announces-dolores-hayden-as-2022-vincent-scully-prize-recipient/ |access-date=2025-04-19 |language=en-US}} She also studied at Cambridge University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design where she obtained her professional degree in architecture.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/17/garden/design-notebook-defining-sprawl-from-a-to-z.html|title=DESIGN NOTEBOOK; Defining Sprawl: From A to Z|last=Brown|first=Patricia Leigh|date=2004-06-17|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-06-30|issn=0362-4331}} She is the widow of sociologist and novelist, Peter H. Marris and is the mother of Laura Hayden Marris.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jul/05/guardianobituaries.obituaries1|title=Obituary: Peter Marris|last=Townsend|first=Peter|date=2007-07-05|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-06-30|issn=0261-3077}}
Career
Since 1973, Hayden has held academic appointments at MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Yale.{{Cite web|url=https://emeritus.yale.edu/fellows/dolores-hayden|title=Dolores Hayden {{!}} Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty|website=emeritus.yale.edu|access-date=2019-06-30}} She has taught courses in architecture, urban landscapes, urban planning, and American studies.
She founded a Los Angeles-based non-profit arts and humanities group called The Power of Place which was active from 1984 to 1991. The goal of the organization was to, "celebrate the historic landscape of the center of the city and its ethnic diversity. Under her direction, collaborative projects on an African American midwife's homestead, a Latina garment workers' union headquarters, and Japanese-American flower fields engaged citizens, historians, artists, and designers in examining and commemorating the working lives of ordinary citizens."{{Cite journal|last=Hayden|first=Dolores|date=August 1994|title=The Power of Place|journal=Journal of Urban History|volume=20|issue=4|pages=466–485|doi=10.1177/009614429402000402|s2cid=144490648|issn=0096-1442}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.doloreshayden.com/index.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080504001303/http://www.doloreshayden.com/index.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-05-04|title=Dolores Hayden - Home|date=2008-05-04|access-date=2018-03-14}} This is documented in the text, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History.{{Cite web |date=2014-05-23 |title=The Power of Place and Emerging Voices |url=https://www.pbssocal.org/history-society/the-power-of-place-and-emerging-voices |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=PBS SoCal |language=en}}
Awards
- American Library Association Notable Book
- Award for Excellence in Design Research from the National Endowment for the Arts
- Paul Davidoff Award for an outstanding book in Urban Planning from the ACSP
- Diana Donald Award for feminist scholarship from the American Planning Association
- Vincent Scully Prize, National Building Museum, 2022{{Cite web |date=2022-09-07 |title=NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM ANNOUNCES DOLORES HAYDEN AS 2022 VINCENT SCULLY PRIZE RECIPIENT {{!}} National Building Museum |url=https://www.nbm.org/national-building-museum-announces-dolores-hayden-as-2022-vincent-scully-prize-recipient/ |access-date=2023-03-20 |language=en-US}}
- Matilde Ucelay Award, Spanish Ministry of Transport and Urban Agendas, 2022{{Cite web |title=Dolores Hayden Wins 2022 Vincent Scully Prize and 2022 Matilde Ucelay Award {{!}} Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty |url=https://emeritus.yale.edu/news/dolores-hayden-wins-2022-vincent-scully-prize-and-2022-matilde-ucelay-award |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=emeritus.yale.edu}}
Selected bibliography
=Books=
- Exuberance: Poems, Red Hen Press, 2019.{{Cite web|url=http://www.doloreshayden.com/tickets-for-an-air-circus|title=Exuberance|website=DOLORES HAYDEN|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-11}}
- American Yard: Poems, 2004.{{Cite web|url=http://www.doloreshayden.com/american-yard|title=American Yard|website=DOLORES HAYDEN|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-11}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/dolores-hayden|title=Dolores Hayden|date=2020-03-11|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en|access-date=2020-03-11}}
- A Field Guide to Sprawl, W W Norton, 2004.
- Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000, Pantheon, 2003.
- Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life, W W Norton, 1984, rev. ed. 2002.
- The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History, MIT Press, 1995.{{Cite web|url=https://www.architecture.yale.edu/faculty/560-dolores-hayden|title=Dolores Hayden|website=Yale Architecture|language=en|access-date=2020-03-11}}
- The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities, MIT Press, 1981.{{Cite web|url=https://www.architecture.yale.edu/faculty/560-dolores-hayden|title=Dolores Hayden|website=Yale Architecture|language=en|access-date=2020-03-11}}
- Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790-1975, MIT Press, 1976.
=Chapters=
- 'Challenging the American Domestic Ideal', featured in Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective (1977)
- 'Catharine Beecher and the Politics of Housework', featured in Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective (1977)
=Articles=
- —— (1980). "[http://nextgenhousing.wikispaces.com/file/view/Hayden+-+Non-Sexist+City.pdf What Would a Non-Sexist City Look Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work]". 5 (3): S170–S187. JSTOR 3173814.
References
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External links
- "[http://nextgenhousing.wikispaces.com/file/view/Hayden+-+Non-Sexist+City.pdf What Would a Non-Sexist City Look Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work]"
- [http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=3996 Video: Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn] at LIVE from the New York Public Library, March 7, 2008
- [http://www.doloreshayden.com/ Official site]
- [http://www.yale.edu/wff/gendermatters/pdf/GM_Hayden.pdf Yale "Gender Matters article]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110814065712/http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/09/27/suburbia Interview on Weekend America] September 27, 2008
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Category:Mount Holyoke College alumni
Category:Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni
Category:Yale School of Architecture faculty
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:21st-century American historians
Category:American women historians
Category:Historians of urban planning
Category:MIT School of Architecture and Planning faculty
Category:21st-century American women writers
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