Si Elsa Gidoni (Marso 12, 1901 – Abril 19, 1978) sarong babaeng Aleman-Amerikanong arkitekto. Siya alabes saro pa man na interior designer.

Kaamayi kan buhay

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Si Gidoni namundag sa pangaran na Elsa Mandelstamm sa Riga, Latvia. An saiyang pamilya may dugong Hudyo-aleman. Nag'adal siyang arkitektura sa Technical University sa Berlin , dangan nagtogdas siyang sadiring palakaya sa interior design poon 1929 sundo 1933.

Kan 1933, pakapwesto ni Adolf Hitler bilang Chancellor, si Gidoni naghaleng Berlin asin naghubo' sa Tel Aviv. Kan 1938, siya nag'erok nang New York, kun saen siya nagtrabaho komo interior designer para sa Heimer & Wagner bago padagos na nagin project designer sa kompanyang pang-arkitektura na iyo an Kahn & Jacobs.[1]

Siya nagin myembro kan American Institute of Architects (AIA) kan 1943.[2] Kan 1960, saro siya sa 260 na kababaihan sa AIA asin saro sana sa 12 nagtratrabaho sa New York.[3]

Naagom niya si Alexis Gluckmann. Kan Abril 1978, nagadan siya sa edad na 77 sa saiyang harong sa Washington, DC.[4]

Mga obra asin proyekto

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  • Swedish Pavilion sa Levant Fair katuwang si Genia Averbuch, Tel Aviv, 1934
  • Apartment house, Tel Aviv, 1937
  • General Motors Futurama pavilion, 1939 World's Fair
  • Research Library, 23 West 26th Street, New York
  • Hecht Co Department Store, Ballston, Virginia

Mga babasahon

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  • Stratigakos, Despina. "Reconstructing a Lost History: Exiled Jewish Women Architects in America." in Aufbau (The Transatlantic Jewish Paper), Vol. LXVIII, No. 22, p. 14. October 31, 2002.
  • Stern, Robert A.M., Thomas Mellins and David Fishman. New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995.
  • Torre, Susana. Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1977.

Toltolan

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  1. Stratigakos, Despina. "Building on the Past: A History of Women in Architecture". Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2015. 
  2. "Elsa Gidoni (1901-1978)". The AIA Historical Directory of American Architects Wiki Pages: ahd1015844. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2015. 
  3. Ennis, Thomas W. (March 13, 1960). "Women Gain Role in Architecture". The New York Times. http://search.proquest.com/docview/115037462?accountid=11095. Retrieved on 15 October 2015. 
  4. "Obituary 5". The New York Times. April 21, 1978. http://search.proquest.com/docview/123739203?accountid=11095. Retrieved on 15 October 2015.