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Susana Torre (born 1944) is an Argentine-born American architect, critic and educator, based in New York City (1968–2008) and in Carboneras, Almeria, Spain (since 2009). Torre has developed a career that combined “theoretical concerns with the actual practice of building” 〔 and architectural and urban design with teaching and writing. Torre was the first woman invited to design a building in Columbus, IN, “a town internationally known for its collection of buildings designed by prominent architects.” 〔Love, Barbara J. (Editor) and Nancy F. Cott, ''Feminists Who Changed America'', 1963–1975, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006.〕 In 1977 Torre organized and curated the first major exhibition of American women architects, and edited the book ''Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective''. The exhibition opened at the Brooklyn Museum in 1977 and traveled across the United States and to the Netherlands. The exhibition and book of the same title, which she edited and to which she contributed three essays, pioneered work in this field. Torre was also a co-founder of ''Heresies, A Feminist Journal on Art and Politics''; was a member of the editorial collectives of ''Heresies 2: Patterns of Communication and Space''; and ''Heresies 11: Making Room: Women in Architecture''; and served on the editorial board of ''Chrysalis'' between 1976-1978. ==Early life and career== Susana Torre was born in Puan, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of three children of Alfonso A. Torre, an economist, and Amelia E. Silva, a school teacher. Upon the death of her father when she was eight years old, the family moved to La Plata, near Buenos Aires, where she attended public schools until beginning her studies for the Dipl. Arch. at the Schools of Architecture and Planning, Universidad de La Plata and Universidad de Buenos Aires, which she received in 1968. The year before her graduation Torre was selected to represent Argentina at the 1967 International Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado and also won a Fellowship from the Edgar Kaufmann Jr. Foundation which enabled her to take a study trip across the US. Upon her return to Argentina, she established the Design Department of the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes in La Plata, the first of any museum in Latin America. While still a student, Torre designed a six-story apartment building in La Plata for banker David Graiver and also built a small house for herself and her first husband, painter Alejandro Puente, in City Bell. Torre returned to the US in 1968 to complete postgraduate work on computer applications to architecture at Columbia University School of Architecture and Planning. In New York City she became associated with The Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Architecture in 1971 as a fellow of the Edward John Noble Foundation and worked on a research project on New Urban Settlements at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York. In 1972 Torre joined the faculty of SUNY at Old Westbury, NY, where she developed the Art Department’s first design curriculum. The following year she co-founded the Archive of Women in Architecture of The Architectural League of New York, which led to the 1977 exhibition “Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective” that she curated and for which she edited the book of the same title. In 1978 she established The Architectural Studio in New York City. One of her first projects in New York, the Law Offices of art collector (Harry Torczyner ),〔Morton, David, "Neotypes: Susana Torre" and "For More Complexity," Progressive Architecture, May 1977.〕 was selected by the American Institute of Architects as one of the seventies’ memorable spaces (AIA Journal, January 1980). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Susana Torre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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