Lori Brown (architect)
{{Short description|American architect (born 1969)}}
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Lori Brown (born March 1, 1969) is an American architect and the co-founder of ArchiteXX, a group dedicated to transforming the architecture profession for women. She is a registered architect, author and Distinguished professor at Syracuse University.{{cite news |last1=Stirling |first1=Diane |title=Lori Brown, Christopher DeCorse Named Distinguished Professors |url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2023/05/11/lori-brown-christopher-decorse-named-distinguished-professors/ |access-date=11 May 2023 |work=Syracuse University News |date=11 May 2023}} Her research focuses on architecture and social justice issues with particular emphasis on gender and its impact upon spatial relationships.{{Cite web|url=https://thefunambulist.net/contributors/lori-brown|title=Lori Brown|last=|first=|date=2 September 2016|website=The Funambulist|access-date=}} She is an elected fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a member of the American Association of University Women.{{Cite web|url=https://events.cornell.edu/event/lori_brown_and_sarosh_anklesaria_feminism_in_the_living_room|title=Lori Brown and Sarosh Anklesaria: Feminism in the Living Room|last=University|first=Office of Web Communications, Cornell|website=Cornell|language=en|access-date=2019-11-28}}
Education
Brown received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology where she spent her final year studying at the Ecole d’Architecture in Paris. Following, she received a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University. Prior to teaching, Brown was working as an architect in New York City for several award-winning firms including Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects and Hali Weiss Architects. She is a registered architect in the state of New York and a member of the American Institute of Architects.{{Cite web|url=https://www.architexx.org/about|title=About|last=|first=|date=|website=ArchiteXX|access-date=}}
Career
In the spring of 2012, Lori Brown and Nina Freedman co-founded the group ArchiteXX. An independent organization aimed to transform the profession of architecture for women in New York.{{Cite web|url=http://www.archdaily.com/402873/necessary-hauntings-why-architecture-must-listen-to-its-forgotten-women/|title=Necessary Hauntings: Why Architecture Must Listen to its Forgotten Women|date=2013-07-16|website=ArchDaily|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-17}} They launched a fundraiser on Indiegogo to raise money for their organisation. Brown also was the architect for the renovation of the [https://www.verahouse.org/ Vera House Shelter] for victims of domestic violence. She partnered with a Turkish colleague for research on women's shelters in Turkey.
For her book on Contested Space: Abortion Clinics, Women's Shelters and Hospitals, Brown conducted in-depth research on abortion clinics in America. She visited abortion clinics and mentioned how most of the buildings were not designed for medical procedures because people were unwilling to sell to abortion providers. Brown writes:
"Architecture is absent in these types of spaces, they can't afford architects or architectural services, they believe architects won't work with them, and they are often in existing spaces that have been re-appropriated as a medical facility.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3032611/the-architecture-of-abortion-how-providers-build-their-own-buffer-zones|title=The Architecture Of Abortion: How Providers Build Their Own Buffer Zones|last=Dickinson|first=Elizabeth Evitts|date=2014-07-03|website=Fast Company|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-20}}
She also participated in a traveling tour, which originally started off as an exhibition, called [http://www.feministpractices.com/ Feminist Practices] which inspired her to write a book under the same name: Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture. {{Cite web|url=http://sumagazine.syr.edu/2014spring/supeople/loribrown.html|title=SU People:Lori Brown : Syracuse University Magazine|website=sumagazine.syr.edu|access-date=2019-11-17}} In March 2012 Brown organized a 3-day event at the Van Allen Institute in Manhattan that brought together ten speakers focusing on the topic of Feminist Practices. The event also marked the release of Brown's edited version of Feminist Practices.{{Cite journal|last=Stratigakos|first=Despina|date=2012-09-12|title=Why Architects Need Feminism|url=https://placesjournal.org/article/why-architects-need-feminism/|journal=Places Journal|issue=2012|language=en-US|doi=10.22269/120912|doi-access=free}} She also worked with German and Australian groups to include more female architects to Wikipedia.
Currently, she is writing Birthing centers, borders, and bodies, and working as an editor for the Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture. An encyclopedia of information on women architects.{{Cite web|url=https://archleague.org/2018-new-york-state-council-on-the-arts-league-sponsored-independent-projects-grantees-2/|title=2018 New York State Council on the Arts League-sponsored Independent Projects Grantees|website=The Architectural League of New York|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-28}}
Awards and grants
- Elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (2022){{cite news |last1=Sharkey |first1=Julie |title=School of Architecture Professor, Alumna Elevated to AIA College of Fellows |url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2022/03/02/school-of-architecture-professor-alumna-elevated-to-aia-college-of-fellows/ |access-date=9 September 2023 |work=Syracuse University News |date=2 March 2022}}
- Grant from the Abortion Conversation Project 2014.
- Mary Lily Travel Grant to Duke University's Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture Library Archives, 2010.
- Milka Bliznakov Prize Commendation for feminist practices exhibition 2008.
- American Institute of Architects Diversity Best Practice Honorable Mention 2008.
- Syracuse University Chancellor's Award for Public Service, March 2006 in collaboration with Alison Mountz, for "boundaries in Syracuse: gender architecture geography".
- AIA Central New York Merit Award, Unbuilt Project for the Upstate University Hospital Chapel renovation, October 2005.{{Cite web|url=http://soa.syr.edu/live/profiles/14-lori-brow|title=Lori Brown|website=soa.syr.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-11-20}}
Publications
- Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, forthcoming.
- Birthing Centers, Borders and Bodies, forthcoming.
- Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women's Shelters and Hospitals, Routledge, 2013.
- Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture, Ashgate Publishing Co., 2011.
References
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External links
- [https://www.aiany.org/news/oculus-book-review-where-are-the-women-architects-by-despina-stratigakos/ Oculus Book Review: Where are the Women Architects?]
- [https://archiparlour.org/disciplining-identities/ Disciplining Identities: Part 1.]
- [https://architizer.com/blog/inspiration/stories/architexx-women-architectural-history/ Meet the Organization Writing Women Into Architectural History.]
- [http://feministing.com/2014/08/30/the-feministing-five-lori-brown/ The Feministing Five: Lori Brown.]
- [https://www.architexx.org/ Architext XX]
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