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