Susana Torre
General Information
Occupation: Architect
Date of Birth: January 01, 1944
Birth City: Puan
Birth Country: Argentina
Resident City: New York
Resident State/Province: New York
Resident Country: United States
Archive/Repository: IAWA, Special Collection, Newman Library, Ms90-016
Sources: http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/vt/vivadoc.pl?file=viblbv00175.xml
Specialties
Subject: Women in Architecture
Jobs
Employer: Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Title: Associate Professor
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Employer: Barnard College
Title: Director, Architecture Program
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Employer: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Title: Associate Professor, School of Architecture
State: New York
Country: United States
Employer: Various Universties
Title: Visiting critic and adjunct professor of architecture
State: New York
Country: United States
Notes: Universities included: Columbia University, Yale University, Cooper Union, Carnegie Mellon, and Syracuse University
Employer: SUNY at Old Westbury
Title: Assistant Professor of Architecture
City: Old Westbury
State: New York
Country: United States
Notes: Director of Design Concentration, Co-chairperson, Creative Arts Program
Employer: Susana Torre Raymond Beeler and Associates, New York
Title: Principal
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Start Date: January 01, 1989
Employer: Wank Adams Slavin Associates
Title: Partner
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Employer: The Architectural Studio
Title: Principal
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Start Date: January 01, 1978
End Date: January 01, 1984
Collaborators
No collaborators on record
Apprenticeships
No apprenticeships on record
Awards
Name: The National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Fellowship in Architecture
Name: The National Endowment for the Arts
Description: Project Director for "Hispanic Influences on American Architecture and Urbanism"
Name: Loeb Fellowship
Description: Harvard University, Torre deferred in favor of directatorship of Barnard College of Architecture Program
Name: The National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Fellowship in Architecture
Name: The National Endowment for the Arts, Grant in Architecture and Environmental Arts
Description: Project Director for "Women in American Architecture" (exhibition and book)
Name: The J. Clawson Mills Grant
Description: Given by the Architectural League of New York
Name: The Noble Foundation
Description: Torre was a fellow, which was renewed in 1972
Name: Post-graduate fellowship for study at Columbia University
Description: Given by the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Name: The Edgar Kauffman Foundation
Description: Torre was a scholar
Name: Olympic Boulevard Urban Design Competition Sponsor's Special Recognition
Description: With S. Haar and C. Wilday, Los Angeles CA
Name: Hemet, CA, Civic Center Master Plan Competition, Finalist
Description: With C. Windlay and others
Name: Inner City Infill Housing Competition, Harlem, New York City, Honorable Mention
Description: With others
Name: Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Master Plan Competition, Merit Award
Description: With others
Name: Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor, MA, Master Plan Competition, Commendation fro Design Excellence
Description: With others
Name: The Montauk Library, Long Island, New York, NY State Department of Education Design Award
Name: Bard College Library Addition, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Invited Competition
Name: Seven Hills Middle School, Cincinnati, OH, Invited Competition
Name: Architectural Record Houses Award of Excellence for Design
Description: Awarded for the Garvey House, Amagansett, Long Island, NY
Name: Architectural Record Houses Award of Excellence for Design
Description: Awarded for the Clark House, Southhampton, Long Island, NY
Name: Torczyner-Wiseman Law Offices, New York City, selected by A.I.A. Journal as one of the "memorable spaces of the 1970's"
Exhibitions
Title: Hispanic Traditions in American Architecture and Urbanism
Description: Torre was a curator of the travelling exhibition which was first shown at Columbia University
City: New York
Country: delete
Start Date: October 16, 1987
End Date: November 06, 1987
Title: Four solo shows
Description: The shows were held in Ronald feldman Fine Arts; New York; E.C. Gallery, Los Angeles; Syracuse University and Houston University
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Title: Projects and Designs exhibited in 35 group shows
Description: Shows were held in major museums and art galleries including: The Museum of Modern Art, Mandeville Art Museum, the New York Historical Society, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Walker Art Center, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Arts, La Biennale de Venezia, Otis Art Institute, Cooper-Hewit Museum, Museum Moderner Kunst (Vienna)
City: Various
Country: delete
Title: Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective
Description: exhibited at: Brooklyn Museum; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Houston Public Library; Archicenter of Chicago; Los Angeles Women's Building; College of Art and Design, Ball State University; Archifest, Atlanta; Delft University, Netherlands, Barnard College
Country: delete
Notable Projects
Title: Montauk Library
Description: Library, Designed with Raymond Beeler
City: Montauk
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Brooklyn Children's Museum
Description: Strategic Master Plan and Phase I Design
City: Brooklyn
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Simon's Farm
City: Pine Plains
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Hugo Neu Schitzer East
Description: Master plan and design of physical interface between industrial site and residential areas
City: Jersey City
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Cranbrook Academy of Art
Description: Ten-year Master Plan
City: Bloomfield Hills
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Housing Prototypes, 52 apartments
Description: Director of a professional collaboration between the housing studio of Parson's M. Arch program and the office of Fox and Fowlefor Community Access, Inc. (a non-profit housing and community developer) and the State of New York Division of Housing and Community Renewal
City: Manhattan
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Herman Miller, Inc.
Description: Institutional seating prototypes
City: Zeeland
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Ironworkers Union Headquarters
Description: Office building, in association with WASA architects and engineers
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: The University Press Bookstore at the New School for Social Research
Description: Bookstore
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Garvey House
Description: Record House of 1988 Award for Excellence for Design: published in the Architectural Record, Nikkei Architecture (Japan) and the New York Post
City: Amagansett, Long Island
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Fire Station Five
Description: in association with WASA architects and engineers. Published in Le Monde, Inland Architect, The Architectural Record
City: Columbus
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Fordham University, dormitory
Description: 150-bed dormitory, on the Rose Hill Campus, in association with WASA architects and engineers
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Ellis Island Park and Museum
Description: Master Plan proposal, Published in Barbaralee Diamonstein,ed., Collaboration (NY: Whitney Library) and reviewed in Metropolis, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, The Village Voice and Oculus
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Wallach Fine Arts Center, renovation
Description: Renovation of Charles McKim's Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia University. in association with WASA architects and engineers. Published in Progressive Architecture and Summa
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Consulate of the Ivory Coast
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Clark House
Description: House on Long Island, Record House of 1982 Award for Excellence for Design; published in The Architectural Record, House and Garden, GA Houses, Grand Bazaar, Toshi Iukata, AIA Journal, Newsday, Metropolis, Houses of the Hamptons
City: Southampton
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Fourth Federal Design Assembly
Description: Pension Building Delegates Lounges, Now the National Building Museum. Published in Interiors, Progressive Architecture, Design Quarterly
City: Washington
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Torczyner-Wiseman Law Offices
Description: Selected by Progressive Architecture as one of the "memorable spaces of the 1970's"; published in Progressive Architecture, Interiors, Domus, Arredamento
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Education
Institution: Columbia University
Notes: Post-graduate studies on fellowship from University of Buenos Aires
Institution: Universidad de Buenos Aires
Department: Instituto Superior de Planeamiento Urbano
Degree: Urban Planning
End Date: January 01, 1967
Institution: Universidad de Buenos Aires
Degree: Architecture
End Date: January 01, 1967
Licensing
No licenses on record
Professional Affiliations
Organization: The Architectural League New York
Role: Board of Directors
Organization: The Society of Architectural Historians
Organization: The Alliance of Women in Architecture
Organization: Architects for Social Responsibility
Role: Board of Advisors
Publications By
Title: Women in Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective
Publisher: Whitney Library of Design
City: New York
Notes: Torre was editor of the book and author of the following chapters: "A Parallel History," "New Professional Identities: Four Women in the Sixties" (with Jane McGroarty), "Women in Architecture and the New Feminism," and "The Pyramid and the Labyrinth". Dutch Translation: Architectuur & Vrouwen, Delft 1982.
Title: Making Room: Women in Architecture
Publication: Heresies
City: New York
Notes: Making Room: Women in Architecture, appeared in a special issue of heresies, a journal of art and politics, Torre was the author of the special issue proposal and editorial collective member
Title: Room in the City
Publisher: Princeton University Press
City: Princeton
Notes: Article was an introduction to exhibition catalog of projects by young architects.
Title: Times Square at the Crossroads
Publication: Skyline
Date Published: December 01, 1982
Title: American Square
Publication: Precis
Volume: 3
Title: Space as Matrix
Publication: Heresies
Issue: 11
Title: Inside Out/Outside In
Publication: Process: Architecture
Notes: Spring Edition
Title: Presentantion/Representation/delineation/Notation: Intentionality in Architectural Drawing
Date Published: November 01, 1979
Notes: Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Regional Conference on Representation and Architecture, Carnegie-Mellon University
Title: Towards an Architecture of the Public Realm
Publication: Design Quarterly
Date Published: January 01, 1979
Notes: Winter edition
Title: The Transformation of the House
Co-author: Gwendolyn Wright and cynthia Rock
Publication: Women and Environments
Publisher: Westview Press
City: Denver
Notes: Edited by Gerda Wakerle. Excerpts published in Ms., December 1977, under the title "Rethinking Closets, Kitchens and Other Forgotten Spaces.'
Title: Feminist Monument (For Marion Mahony
Publication: Heresies 2
Title: Open and Reflective Boundaries
Publication: in The Substance of Light
Publisher: la Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art
Title: Architecture and Revolution: Cuba 1959-74
Publication: Progressive Architecture
Date Published: October 01, 1974
Notes: JapaneseTranslation Kenchiku Bunka, February 1975
Title: The Object Percieved/The Object Apprehended
Publication: Artform
Date Published: January 01, 1974
Notes: Italian translation in Saman (Genoa), 1975
Title: New Urban Settlements
Publisher: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies
City: New York
Notes: Torre was editor and writer of urban design research report.
Title: La investigacion del futuro
Publication: SUMMA
Title: From Tipi to Skyscraper: A History of Women in Architecture, by Doris Cole
Publication: Art in America
Date Published: September 01, 1974
Notes: Torre wrote a review of Doris Cole's book
Title: Wasteland: Building the American Dream, by Stephen Kurtz
Publication: Architectural Forum
Date Published: April 01, 1974
Notes: Torre was wrote a review of Stephen Kurtz's book
Publications About
Title: Sampling of the Work of an Emerging Dozen
Author: Abercrombie, Stanley
Publication: AIA Journal
Date Published: September 01, 1980
Title: Rooms for the Federal Design Assembly
Author: Stanley Abercombie
Publication: Interiors
Date Published: January 01, 1979
Title: Law Office
Author: Stanley Abercombie
Publication: Interiors
Date Published: March 01, 1977
Title: Crisis in Housing
Author: Gerald Allen
Publication: Architectural Record
Date Published: October 01, 1975
Title: Houses of the Hamptons
Author: Peter Arnell and Tim Bickford
Publisher: Alfred Knopf
Title: Columbus, les architectes aux champs
Author: Olivier Boissiere
Publication: Le Monde
Date Published: August 13, 1988
Title: Collaboration: Artists and Architects
Author: Rosemarie Haag Bletter
Publication: Art Journal
Notes: Winter edition
Title: Teaching Architecture
Author: Daralice Boles
Publication: Progressive Architecture
Date Published: September 01, 1986
Title: Remodeled Carriage House Eastern Long Island by Susana Torre
Author: Douglas Brenner
Publication: Architectural Record
Date Published: May 01, 1982
Title: Stable Contradictions
Author: Akiko Bush
Publication: Metropolis
Date Published: January 30, 1982
Title: Designing Women
Author: Douglas Davis
Publication: Newsweek
Date Published: March 07, 1977
Title: Women in Architecture: Individual Profiles and a Discussion of Issues
Author: Andrea O. Davis
Publication: AIA Journal
Date Published: January 01, 1982
Title: Collaboration: Artists and Architects
Author: Barbaralee Diamonstein, editor
Publisher: Whitney Library of Design
City: New York
Title: Adding-on
Author: Duo Dickinson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
City: New York
Title: Speaking Freely: Susana Torre
Author: Margaret Drimer
Publication: Residential Interiors
Date Published: September 01, 1979
Title: Between Dream and Memory
Author: Martin Filler
Publication: House and Garden
Date Published: January 01, 1982
Title: Collaboration: Artists and Architects at the New York Historical Society
Author: Martin Filler
Publication: Art in America
Date Published: May 01, 1981
Title: Harbingers: Ten Architects
Author: Martin Filler
Publication: Art in America
Notes: Summer edition
Title: Rooms for Improvement
Author: Martin Filler
Publication: Progressive Architecture
Date Published: December 01, 1978
Title: Playing with Plagiarism, Paraphases and Puns
Author: James Martson Fitch
Publication: Oculus
Date Published: May 01, 1981
Title: A Competition for a Gate
Author: Joanne Gaines, et. al.
Publication: The Harvard Architectural Review 5
Title: Diversity and New Directions
Author: Paul Goldberger
Publication: On the Rise
Publisher: Penguin Books
Title: Emerging Young Architects
Author: Paul Goldberger
Publication: The New York Times
Date Published: September 16, 1982
Title: Young Architects Display Recent Visionary Designs
Author: Paul Goldberger
Publication: The New York Times
Date Published: September 19, 1975
Title: Fire Station #5. Columbus Indiana
Author: Miriam Gusevich
Publication: Inland Architect
Notes: September/October edition
Title: Do New Family Concepts Call for a New Housing Type?
Author: Charles Hoyt
Publication: Architectural Record
Date Published: September 01, 1980
Title: New Interiors Catch the Spirit of the Older Buildings They Transform
Author: Charles Hoyt
Publication: Architectural Record
Date Published: May 01, 1980
Title: The Last Profession to be "Liberated" by Women
Author: Ada Louise Huxtable
Publication: The New York Times
Date Published: March 13, 1978
Title: The Office Book
Author: Judith Graf Klein
Publisher: Van Nostrand and Reinhold
City: New York
Title: Complexes: Architectural Sculpture in Nature
Author: Lucy Lippard
Publication: Art in America
Date Published: January 01, 1979
Title: Guide to U.S. Architecture
Author: Esther McCoy
Publisher: Arts + Architecture Press
City: Santa Monica
Title: Consolato per la d'Avorio a New York
Author: Gigliola Messina
Publication: L'Industria delle Construzioni
Title: Neotypes: Susana Torre, and For More Complexity
Author: David Morton
Publication: Progressive Architecture
Date Published: May 01, 1977
Title: Susana Torre: sus propuestas y proyectos
Author: Josep Muntanola Thornberg
Publication: Moda
City: Barcelona
Date Published: April 15, 1982
Title: Emerging Voices
Author: Richard Oliver
Publication: Skyline
Date Published: January 01, 1982
Title: Housing and Community Design for Changing Family Needs
Author: Mildred Schmertz
Publication: Architectural Record
Date Published: October 01, 1979
Title: Changing Housing as Families Change
Author: Suzanne Slesin
Publication: The New York Times
Date Published: March 01, 1988
Title: Pastorale
Author: Herbert L. Smith Jr.
Publication: Architectural Record
Date Published: March 30, 1988
Title: Two Interiors by Torre: An Office and a Restaurant
Author: Herbert L. Smith Jr.
Publication: Architectural Record
Date Published: August 01, 1982
Title: The Odd Couples
Author: Michael Sorkin
Publication: The Village Voice
Title: Women in Architecture-Breaking New Ground
Author: Suzanne Stephens
Publication: House and Garden
Date Published: March 01, 1981
Title: The Woman Behind the T-Square
Author: Suzanne Stephens
Publication: Progressive Architecture
Date Published: March 01, 1977
Title: American Architecture: After Modernism
Author: Robert Stern, editor
Publication: a + u
Date Published: March 01, 1982
Notes: Extra Edition
Title: Forty Under Forty
Author: Robert Stern
Publication: a + u
Date Published: January 01, 1977
Title: The Chicago Tapes
Author: Stanley Tigerman
Publisher: Rizzoli
City: New York
Title: Chicago Tribune Tower Competition/Late Entries
Author: Stanley Tigerman and Stuart Cohen, editors
Volume: Volume II
City: New York
Title: Una Donna, Una Casa
Author: Virginia Visoni
Publication: Amica
Date Published: October 01, 1978
Title: Architecture as Art
Author: Paula Weidiger
Publication: Mode Australia
Date Published: April 01, 1981
Notes: April/May edition
Title: Cityscape: Missed Connections
Author: Carter Weisman
Publication: New York
Date Published: April 16, 1981
Title: Built by Women: A Guide to Architecture in the New York Area
Author: Alliance of Women in Architecture
Publisher: Alliance of Women in Architecture
City: New York
Title: Consulate of the Ivory Coast
Author: unknown
Publication: a + u
Date Published: March 01, 1981
Title: Dictionary of International Biography
Author: unknown
City: London
Country: England (U.K.)
Title: La Casa Recisa
Author: unknown
Publication: Grand Bazaar
Date Published: April 01, 1984
Title: New Waves in American Architecture
Author: unknown
Publication: GA Houses
Title: The Prescence of the Past, First International Exhibition of Architecture
Author: unknown
Publisher: Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia
City: Venice
Title: Remodeled Carriage House
Author: unknown
Publication: Toshi Jukatu
Date Published: February 01, 1984
Title: Spazi illusori e sculpture imperrealiste
Author: unknown
Publication: Arredamento
Date Published: November 01, 1978