Donna V. Robertson


General Information


Occupation: Architect, Professor

Resident City: Chicago

Resident State/Province: Illinois

Resident Country: United States

Archive/Repository: IAWA Online Inventory at: http://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA/inventories/Robertson.html

Sources: Curriculum vitae


Specialties


No specialties on record


Jobs


Employer: University of Virginia, Graduate School of Architecture

Title: Visiting Design Critic, graduate architectural studio

City: Charlottesville

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Fall term 1991


Employer: Tulane University

Title: Dean, School of Architecture

City: New Orleans

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Robertson was also an Associate Professor of Architecture


Employer: Illinois Institute of Technology

Title: Dean, College of Architecture

City: Chicago

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Robertson is also Associate Professor of Architecture


Employer: Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Title: Visiting Critic of Design, graduate architectural studio

City: Cambridge

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Fall term 1990


Employer: Barnard College

Title: Director of Architecture program

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Robertson was also an Associate Professor of Architecture at Barnard College, Columbia University, as well as a Design Studio director; Seminar: "American Architects and their Buildings"


Employer: Barnard College Architecture Program and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture

Title: Assistan Professor and Design Critic; seminar; Public Buildings in America

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States


Employer: Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Title: Assistan Professor and Department of Architecture Studio Critic

City: Cambridge

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Thesis Coordinator, Instructor of Fall and Spring Thesis Preparation Seminar


Employer: Barnard College, and Columbia University

Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Studio Critic

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States


Employer: Univerisity of Virginia, School of Architecture

Title: Studio Critic, Undergraduate Design Studio

City: Charlottesville

State: New York

Country: United States


Employer: Univerisity of Virginia, School of Architecture

Title: Teaching Assistant, Language of Design

City: Charlottesville

State: New York

Country: United States


Employer: Univerisity of Virginia, School of Architecture

Title: Graduate Repesentatitve to Chairman's Council for Graduate Department

City: Charlottesville

State: New York

Country: United States


Employer: Stanford University, English Department

Title: Chairman of Undergraduate Steering Committee

City: Palo Alto

State: New York

Country: United States


Employer: Robertson McAnulty Architects

Title: Partner

City: Chicago

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: "Material Evidence" exhibition installation, Museum of Contemporary Art; Hirschman Residence, Chicago; DePauw University center campus plan; Fishback Residence, New Orleans; Whitney Young Pools consultation for City; Square 26 Charette for Parkways and Parks Commission, City of New Orleans (project executed); Sunkel Residence, New Orleans; Pisar residence, NYC; Dachs Residence, NYC; Client Services Spaces, Charter Atlantic Corp, NYC; Persky/Pinkstaff Residence, Sag Hrbour Long Island; Baskerville Residence: Neutra house renovation and addition, Los Angeles; Gallery Nature Morte Competition, NYC; Room in the City Project


Employer: Donna V. Robertson Architect

Title: Sole Propietor

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Projects include: Calman Apartment, NYC; Agranoff/Donin Residence, Chappaqua, New York; Tina Ball Studio Apartment, NYC; Chopak Apartment, Guttenburg, New Jersey; A Fence: AIR Gallery, NYC-installation in collaboration with Daria Dorosh, artist; The Shaving Glass (furniture); FRR Kitchen, Richmond, VA (with R.M. McAnulty); Images of American Buildings: speculative designs.


Employer: Kohn, Pedersen, Fox Associates, P.C.

Title: Senior Designer

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Projects Include: Arlington County Courthouse Plaza Competition-Arthur May, Partner-in-charge; Denver Tech Center Plaze-Anthony Pellecchia, Project Designer


Employer: The Architectural Studio

Title: Intern

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Robertson worked on all phases of renovations and houses


Employer: Mitchell/Giurgola Architects

Title: Designer

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Projects included: Australian National Parliament House Competition-second phase design team; Lafayette Place, Boston-design develoment and working drawings team.


Employer: Voosanger and Mills, Arhcitects

Title: Intern

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States

Start Date: September 01, 1978

End Date: December 31, 1978

Notes: Projects included: Intercontinental Bank, Tehran-Design development and working drawings.


Collaborators


No collaborators on record


Apprenticeships


No apprenticeships on record


Awards


Name: Grant from the Graham Foundation

Description: Grant for $13750 given for "Beyond Mies: Technology, the City and Cyles of the Modern" symposium in connection with the IIT CampusCenter Competition ($13,750). "IIT Architecture with Technology" ($6,000)


Name: Grant from the Graham Foundation

Description: $25,000 grant with Peter Land for "IIT Architecture with Technology"


Name: Medallion for Lifetime Achievement in Education


Name: Women in a non-Traditional Role

Description: Award given by the Women's Business Council of Jefferson Parish


Name: First Place Arlington County Courthouse Plaza Competition

Description: Senior Designer with Kohn Pedersen, Fox Associates, P.C., Arthur May, Partner in Charge.


Name: Responses to the City Competition

Description: One of six architects chosen by the YOung Architects' Committee of the Architectural League of New York, for exhibition and lecture series


Name: Semi-Finalist, Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome

Description: One of four chosen to interview for Fall


Name: Dean's Scholarcship, University of Virginia, School of Architecture


Name: First Place, Flowerdew Hundred Plantation Visitor's Center school Competition


Name: Commissioner (Mayoral appointee, '93-96) CBD-Historic Distric Landmarks Commission

Description: New Orleans Architectural Review Board Committee


Name: American Institute of Architects, Gold Medalist for the University of Virginia School of Architecture


Name: New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship


Exhibitions


Title: Room in the City Exhibition

Description: City Gallery

City: New York City

State: Virginia

Country: United States

Notes: Accompanied with a lecture: Soundings at Columbia/Barnard Colleges Architectural Lecture Series


Title: Faculty Work Exhibition

Description: Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture

City: New York

State: Virginia

Country: United States


Title: Daria Dorosh: New Works in Collaboration with Architects Exhibition

Description: AIR Gallery

City: New York

State: Virginia

Country: United States


Title: "A Fence", "Detail--The Special Task"

Description: AIR Gallery

City: New York

State: Virginia

Country: United States

Notes: Invitational exhibition of women in architecture


Title: Responses to the City

Description: Sponsored by the Young Architects Committee

State: Virginia

Country: United States


Title: Images of American Buildings,Window Room Furniture

Description: The Architectural League of New York City

City: The Cooper Union and Japan

State: Virginia

Country: United States


Title: Young Faculty Architecture

Description: Master Thesis shown as student work of Bruce Abbey and Robert Dripps

City: Syracuse, The National Academyof Design

State: Virginia

Country: United States


Title: Commencement Exhibition, University of Virginia School of Architecture

Description: Master's Theses

City: Charlottesville

State: Virginia

Country: United States


Notable Projects


No projects on record


Education


Institution: Webster College

Department: Theatre Arts Conservatory Program


Institution: Stanford University

Department: English

Degree: Bachelor fo Arts, with distinction and and Departmental Honors

Notes: Honors Thesis: "Gertrude Stein and Cubism"


Institution: University of Virginia School of Architecture

Department: Architecture

Degree: Master of Architecture

Notes: Master's thesis: "The American Courthouse: Content and Imagery", R.D Dripps, critic


Licensing


License: Registered Architect, New York State


Professional Affiliations


Organization: Chicago Women in Architecture

Role: Member


Organization: American Institute of Architects

Role: Member, Chicago Chapter


Organization: The Raven Society, University of Virginia honorary society

Role: Member


Organization: The Chicago Network/The International Women's Forum

Role: Member

Notes: Honorary organization of professional women


Organization: Women's Forum of Louisianna/International Women's Forum

Role: Member


Organization: Tau Sigma Delta, National Architecture Honor Society

Role: Honorary Member


Organization: American Institute of Architects--National Educators and Practitioners Network

Role: Member and Advisor


Organization: St. Margaret's School, Church Schools Diocese of Virginia

Role: Member, Board of Governors


Organization: President Rubenstein;s ad hoc Committee, Harvard University

Role: Member for tenure review


Organization: Architect Selection Committee, National D-Day Museum Project, New Orleans

Role: Member


Organization: Women's Professional Council, New Orleans

Role: Member


Organization: Cintas Foundation Architectural Grants review, New York, New York

Role: Panel Member


Organization: New York State Council of the Arts, New York, New York

Role: Vice-chair and Panel-member, Architecture, Planning and Design grants reviews panel


Organization: Phi Beta Kappa

Role: Member with Distinction an Departmental Honors by Stanford University


Publications By


Title: The Divided Body: Who Says the Body is Divided?

Publication: Practices 5-6

Publisher: Center for the Study of the Practice of Architecture, University of Cincinnate, College of Design, Architecture

City: Cincinnati


Title: The Politics of Contemporary Architectural Discourse

Publication: Assemblage 27


Title: Accredation Review Report

Publication: TSA News

Issue: 4

Date Published: October 01, 1994


Title: Gravidity, Gravity and the Passing of TIme

Publication: TSA News

Issue: 6

Date Published: April 01, 1995


Title: The New Orleans Casino

Publication: TSA News

Date Published: October 01, 1993


Title: Room in the City Project

Publication: Assemblage 16

Date Published: January 01, 1992


Title: A Place in the Sun, Baskervill Residence: Neutra House renovation and Addition

Publication: House and Garden

Date Published: February 01, 1991


Title: Room in the CIty

Publication: Lotus International

Issue: Number 66

Date Published: September 01, 1990


Title: Room in the City

Publication: Exhibition Cataloge

Publisher: Princeton University Press


Title: The Bessie Smith Memorial Dance Hall

Co-author: Susana Torre

Issue: 11 on Architecture

Date Published: June 01, 1980


Title: Inside Out/Outside In: An Evolving Tradition in the Design of Interior Space

Co-author: Susana Torre

Publication: Process: Architecture

Date Published: June 01, 1980


Title: Designing After Mies

Publication: Any 24

Notes: Robertson was the editor of the publication regarding the Campus Center Competition


Title: The British are Coming

Publication: Architectural Record

Date Published: March 01, 1999


Title: Building a Better Bus Stop

Publication: Chicago Tribune

City: Chicago

Date Published: April 18, 1999


Title: The IIT Campus Center Competition

Publication: Casabella

Date Published: March 01, 1999

Notes: Spring edition


Publications About


Title: The Loring House--by Richard Neutra, renovated by Robertson McAnulty

Author: Tim Street-Porter

Publication: The Los Angeles House --Decoration and Design in America's 20th Century City

Publisher: Clarkson Potter

City: New York


Title: THe Richard H. Driehaus Foundation International Competition for the IIT Campus Center

Author: Results reviewed by Blair Kamin/Chicago Tribune, Lee Bay/Chiago Sun Times, Hebert Muschamp/The New York Times, The Economist, the Independent Engineering News Record, Arhitectural REcord, WBEZ-FM, Nikkei Architectur, Berliner Zeitung, Architektur, A+U


Title: The British are Coming

Author: unknown

Publication: Architectural Record


Title: The Beyond Mies Symposium

Author: various

Publication: Convered by the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune


Title: Domesticity at War

Author: Beatriz Colomina

Publication: Ottagono

Issue: Number 97

Notes: Room in the city appeared in this publication.


Title: Out of Order: The Public Art Machine

Author: Patricia Phillips

Publication: ArtForum

Date Published: December 01, 1988


Title: Room in the City

Author: Patricia Phillips

Publication: ArtForum

Date Published: September 01, 1987


Title: Compressed Living

Author: Victoria Geibel

Publication: Metropolis

Date Published: April 01, 1987

Notes: "Room in the City" was the subject of the article.


Title: Bring Light and Space to a Tenement

Author: Paul Goldberger

Publication: New York Times, Arts and Leisure

City: New York

Date Published: May 03, 1987

Notes: "Room in the City


Title: Bring Light and Space to a Tenement

Author: Paul Goldberger

Publication: New York Times, Arts and Leisure

City: New York

Date Published: May 03, 1987

Notes: "Room in the City" review


Title: Cinderella Transformations: Small Spaces Look Larger

Author: J. Giovanni

Publication: New York Times

City: New York

Date Published: February 20, 1986


Title: Daria Dorosh: New Works in Collaboration with Architects

Author: unknown

Notes: Review appeared in ArtForum in May, Express in March, and the New York Times in March.


Title: Cracks in the Dwelling

Author: Christian Hubert

Publication: Skyline

Date Published: January 01, 1982


Title: Cosmic to Cosmic: Work by Young Architects

Author: S.L. Ryder

Publication: Metropolis

Date Published: October 01, 1981