Laurie Hawkinson
{{short description|American architect}}
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| birth_name = Laurie Ann Hawkinson
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|03|25}}
| birth_place = California, USA
| occupation = architect
| education = B.A., M.A., University of California, Berkeley
AR., 1983, Cooper Union
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| spouse(s) = {{married|Henry H. Smith-Miller|1997}}
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Laurie Ann Hawkinson (born March 25, 1952) is an American architect. She worked at Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies and is a partner at Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects. Hawkinson is also a Professor of Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture.
Early life and education
Hawkinson was born on March 25, 1952.{{cite web |title=Laurie Ann Hawkinson (Architect) |url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/4079/ |website=pcad.lib.washington.edu |accessdate=March 11, 2020}} She was educated at the University of California, Berkeley where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a master's degree.{{cite web |title=Laurie Hawkinson |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/designcommission/about/people/laurie-hawkinson.page |website=nyc.gov |accessdate=March 11, 2020}} After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, Hawkinson travelled to New York to enrol in the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. While there, she was encouraged by director Jane G. Rice to apply as an art handler, which she accepted. According to the New York Times, Hawkinson was the only woman art handler in a major New York museum at the time.{{cite news |title=Art People |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/01/archives/art-people.html |accessdate=March 12, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=October 1, 1976}}
Career
File:Vishaan Chakrabarti, Laurie Hawkinson, & Valerie Stahl at The First 100 Days, Day 64.jpg
After graduating from Cooper Union, Hawkinson co-founded an architecture firm with Henry H. Smith-Miller in 1983.{{cite book |last1=Hasanovic |first1=Aisha |title=2000 Architects, Volume 1 |date=2006 |publisher=Images Publishing |isbn=9781920744939 |page=560 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jZvYSYgHGZgC&pg=PA560 |accessdate=March 11, 2020}} The following year, Hawkinson collaborated with Erika Rothenberg and John Malpede to create the Freedom of Expression National Monument, in Battery Park City for its Creative Time Art on the Beach project. Their monument was a giant megaphone aimed at encouraging people to voice their opinions.{{cite news |last1=Glueck |first1=Grace |title=ART: SCULPTURE ON THE SANDS OF BATTERY PARK CITY |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/13/arts/art-sculpture-on-the-sands-of-battery-park-city.html |accessdate=March 12, 2020 |work=New York Times |date=July 13, 1984}} In 2004, their monument was again exhibited in Lower Manhattan from August to November.{{cite web |title=Four Temporary Public Art Projects Debut in City Parks |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/news/press-releases?id=19141 |website=nycgovparks.org |accessdate=March 12, 2020 |date=August 2, 2004}} During this time, Hawkinson sat as a panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts in Architecture, Planning and Design from 1986 until 1989.{{cite web |title=Hawkinson to present Ekdahl Distinguished Lecture for College of Architecture, Planning & Design |url=https://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/feb14/hawkinson22114.html |website=k-state.edu |accessdate=March 12, 2020 |date=February 21, 2014}}
In 1987, Hawkinson (AP) and Smith-Miller were selected to design the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania.{{cite news|title=University preparing new museum space|date=June 16, 1987|newspaper=Doylestown Intelligencer|location=Pennsylvania|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-jun-16-1987-1586265/}}{{free access}} They were subsequently awarded the 1989–1990 Faculty Design Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.{{cite web |title=Awards Archive |url=https://www.acsa-arch.org/awards-archive/ |website=acsa-arch.org |accessdate=March 12, 2020}} The following year, Hawkinson was named an Eeero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University.{{cite web |title=The Eero Saarinen visiting professorship |url=https://bulletin.yale.edu/bulletins/architecture/school-architecture-faculty-and-administration-2019-2020 |website=bulletin.yale.edu |accessdate=March 12, 2020}} She then spent three years at the Southern California Institute of Architecture as a Visiting Critic and Graduate Thesis Advisor.
While serving as the director of Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Hawkinson collaborated with Vishaan Chakrabarti to connect New York's Financial District to Governors Island through a land bridge made of landfill.{{cite web |title=The Speculation Studio: Governors Island, The Sixth Borough? |url=https://urbanomnibus.net/2012/01/studio-report-the-speculation-studio-governors-island-the-sixth-borough/ |website=urbanomnibus.net |accessdate=March 12, 2020 |date=January 11, 2012}} In 2016, she was appointed to the Public Design Commission by New York mayor Bill de Blasio.{{cite web |last1=Martin |first1=Olivia |title=Mayor Bill de Blasio appoints architect Laurie Hawkinson to the Public Design Commission |url=https://archpaper.com/2016/11/laurie-hawkinson-public-design-commission/ |website=archpaper.com |accessdate=March 12, 2020 |date=November 3, 2016}}
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Category:American women architects
Category:Architects from California
Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni
Category:Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation faculty
Category:20th-century American architects