Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Storefront

Storefront for Art and Architecture, Kenmare Street between Nolita & SoHo (NYC)

Wwwriting Series: Digital Invisibles is hosting a Wikipedia Editathon covering underrepresented architects at the Storefront for Art and Architecture.

Main website: Wwwriting Series: Digital Invisibles, Saturday May 17, 2014 (Storefront for Art and Architecture)

This page will document the work being done on Wikipedia toward this goal, with the usernames of participants and a list of the new articles started and older articles improved.

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Participants

• Pharos (talk) 20:08, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
• Jeremyb (talk) 21:29, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
• AALD4E (talk) 22:02, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
• Quilian (talk) 22:13, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
• Voxelisa (talk) 22:17, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
• Bendbrady (talk) 22:26, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
• Apollonia-Artemonas (talk)
• Loriannbrown (talk)
• Tyrannasaurusrex (talk)

Topics

(organized roughly by presenter)

• Arielle Assouline-Lichten presentation
  • Mary Gannon and Alice Hands, believed to be the first female partnerships of architects practicing in the United States
  • Beverley L. Greene, believed to have been the first African American female licensed asan architect in the US
  • Mary L. Page, believed to be the first woman in the United States awarded an architectural degree

• Anna Kats presentation
  • Tehrangeles "Persian Palaces"

• Andrea J. Merrett presentation
  • Women in architecture, Feminism and modern architecture, rather more needed - specific topics: Women's School of Planning and Architecture, architectural scholar Leslie Kanes Weisman, Organization of Women Architects

• Quilian Riano presentation

NEW:

• • The Architect's Resistance
  • Architecture of the United States#Architecture as an American profession

Proposed:

• • Walter Hood's, Urban Diaries a look at an Oakland, California neighborhood

-http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2375281.Walter_Hood

• • Organizing for Occupation, Squatting in the United States, Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
  • Richard Neutra's work for the USA's colonial government in Puerto Rico
• Ionna Theocharopoulou presentation

Results

Articles edited:

• Mary L. Page (new article)
• Leslie Kanes Weisman (new article)
• The Architect's Resistance (new article)
• Architecture of the United States#Architecture as an American profession
• Sustainable architecture#Changing pedagogies