Dolores Hayden
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| Dolores Hayden | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Professor |
| Nationality | United States |
| Genres | Architecture |
Dolores Hayden is an American professor, urban historian, architect, author, and poet. She teaches architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale University.
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[edit] Background
Hayden received her B.A. in architecture from Mount Holyoke College in 1966. She also studied at Cambridge University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design where she obtained a professional degree. She is the widow of the late sociologist and novelist, Peter H. Marris and is the mother of Laura Hayden Marris.
[edit] Career
Since 1973, Hayden has traveled to MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Yale to hold lectures about architecture, landscape architecture, 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 from1984-1991. 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." [1] This is documented in the text, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History.
[edit] Awards
- American Library Association Notable Book Award
- 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
[edit] Selected bibliography
[edit] Books
- A Field Guide to Sprawl
- American Yard -- Poems
- Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000
- The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History
- Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life
- The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities
- Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790-1975
[edit] Further Reading
- Building Suburbia, Pantheon books, ISBN 0-375-42128-9
- Redesigning the American Dream, W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0-393-73094-8
- Seven American Utopias, The MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-08082-6
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